redcalcium

joined 1 year ago
[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 57 points 6 months ago (11 children)

How the heck did those tools developers figure out how to remove those various ads in windows? Did they do it the hard way, fired up a debugger to reverse engineer how those ads were displayed? That takes some dedication. We in the Linux land have it easy because the source code is available to mess with.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 26 points 6 months ago

I mean, a huge number of redditors moved here because of reddit enshittification.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 83 points 6 months ago (5 children)

When I was a teenager, I made a page in Word, saved it as html, then uploaded it to geocities. Good times.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would they do that when they can use this as yet another push to move people to windows 11.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 17 points 6 months ago (23 children)

It would be nice if the prisoners could take class or earn a degree while in prison, at least when they get out they have a new skill or a degree so they have a better chance to get a job to pay off their prison debt.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 6 months ago

Highway, all lanes are completely cut off, at 2 am, with no nearby street lights in sight. Those drivers probably didn't even see it coming. Even if you're a drifting god, you probably can't escape it unless you can jump the guardrails like the speedracer to the opposing lanes. After a pile of burning cars lit the area, people noticed something was off and started slowing down and avoided doom.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The books they loaned are loaded with DRM though, which make it unusable after the loan period expires, so it's not like they're handing out unlocked pdf en-masse like z-library. They probably thought this restriction was good enough and publishers have enough goodwill to let it slide during the height of the pandemic.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For comparison, I run a thinkstation p300 with i7-4790 (TDP 84W) 24/7 and the power usage looks like this:

Even when idling this old processor still guzzles 45W. Certainly not as nice as GP's that only use 10W during idle.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 6 months ago

Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The term "Android" itself is trademarked and can't be used by hardware manufacturers without passing certification and paying Google.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it'll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine. Assuming $0.12/kwh, that's $262.8 per year for electricity alone.

Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.

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