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— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) June 5, 2024
Imagine not using jet engines to dry your laundry lmao poors:
These Twitterinos are almost as sophisticated as Redditors with their soy like expression of knowledge:
In a few decades the europoor will save enough money to buy a house from their Islamic overlords:
Clap them back europoors:
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the cost of running your dryer is pennies
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!codecels - you guys ever run into people obsessed with the power usage of their computer?
I was debating with a person one day if the cost savings of "optimizing" his computer would have a broad financial impact.
I still maintain your fridge uses more power in 24hrs than you desktop with functional sleep does. 
The funniest part was him disabling features like AMD PBO- why tf would you buy a top end CPU just to disable performance features?
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My personal home computer, no, I'm rich enough to burn fossil fuels leaving helldivers on pause. I like lean Linux systems with a small footprint but I also dual boot that fat assed slut Windows.
Computing at scale though, super super interesting. Also computing in the small like running AI accelerators on your cellphone / embedded device.
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Do you use Alpine linux? I miss systemd when I use it but it does tingle my autism how small and fast it is.
Yes, optimizing when it comes to scale is very cool. Seems like ARM is winning that race.
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I care about the usage solely due to the heat in my room during the night. Other than that my desktop pc I'd like $100 a year, laptop is like 50 a year if that, mini pc server is probably $10 and steam deck/ misc electronics are probably $20 combined since they don't get used often.
Optimizing for electric usage doesn't matter unless you're paying some data center / VPS / web shit thing that charges
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Yeah but then that one gigachad discovered the whole NSA gz ssh backdoor because he was super concerned about processor usage so I'm gonna give these people a pass for now.
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In fairness that guy was working for Microsoft and benchmarking Postgres. He wasn't in his mom's basement lol
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I priced out the cost of running an old laptop as a server
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That's the kino move for sure.
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he's being neurotic over savings equal to having 1 McRoyale doordashed to him each quarter
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Yeah i think his total was like $40/yr lol and im not even sure that was accurate.
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"wasted" power is just heat for you're room anyway
trans lives matter
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Bro was averaging electrical use and comparing to current costs.
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if you are this micromanagey and poor you should timeofusemaxx tbh
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During the summer I'm more concerned about heat output than power consumption. Office can get pretty warm if AC isn't on all the time.
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Full bore gaming sesh i can see but doesn't that happen when the suns down?
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I sometimes play games during the work day
Although right now I'm the only one that manages like 10 projects so I dont anymore lol.
But here in MD even when suns down in the summer the humidity retains the heat well.
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Especially if its only 100$ a year. Most of these energy savers are rated to save 30~40$ a year, which, again, is roughly 3something$ a month.
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The scenario changes if you're a family rather than an individual, since if you end up doing a load every day it starts to add up quickly.
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You'd probably spend more $ worth of your time hanging that shit up and checking on it than the electricity costs of a dryer. This only sounds like a good way to save money if your time is almost worthless.
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True but it's also really
bad longterm for your clothes. If you own any nice clothes 
you absolutely should 
not be drying them in the dryer
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