flubba86

@flubba86@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (dimming my bedroom lights)

  Thats terrifying. Your desk outlet should not share a circuit with your bedroom lighting circuit, that makes no sense (unless you’re talking about a desk lamp).

  And regardless, if a 700W load can make your lights dim, then there’s a major wiring issue in your house. Don’t plug in an electric cooker, kettle, or space heater until you get that checked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m reading that correctly, that shows the system is drawing around 100W just sitting idle.

  Something is not right there.

  Either the power meter is way out of calibration, or there is a configuration issue with your PC. Maybe you have a performance setting that is causing the CPU and GPU to not idle down ever? Or a rogue antivirus software that is cranking the CPU constantly?

  Are there any spinning disk hard drives in your PC? They can sometimes use around 5W each on idle. That was the biggest cause of idle power consumption on my old xeon server, with 8 HDDs.

  PSU choice can also affect it. Eg, if you buy into marketing and buy a monster 850W PSU, but it’s idle all the time and only uses 450W under load, then the PSU is spending the whole time outside it’s efficiency curve, and can end up causing more power draw than expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you identify as “scandisk/defrag watcher”, it’s for you

  I am who you describe, and this made me realise that a progression/idle game based around a disk defragging mechanic would be amazing, and would scratch a deep itch for many people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to move my mishmash of hard drives, fans, cables, and NUC into a proper NAS box, with a proper power supply and a mini itx motherboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but you don’t find that out until later games. At the end of Chronicles, it certainly looks and feels like fighting a god.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenoblade Chronicles