Evolv-ing Thread

[73neb]

 

[CMD-Ky]

nice to see some afternoon coffee!

Alan came in with a strong finish.

 

[BillW50]

 

[borno]

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[tiburonfirst]

Alan came in with a strong finish.

but apparently a one-day wonder

 

[BillW50]

I never seen these before. Lithium D cells with USB3 and a built in charger. Whatcha think? LiFePo4 with a buck converter?

https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Rechargeable-Capacity-12000mWh-Constant/dp/B08C7S5JVM

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[CMD-Ky]

but apparently a one-day wonder

I would imagine that ferreting out these pictures day after day can be a challenge, hat tip to those who do.

 

[tiburonfirst]

I never seen these before. Lithium D cells with USB3 and a built in charger. Whatcha think? LiFePo4 with a buck converter?

https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Rechargeable-Capacity-12000mWh-Constant/dp/B08C7S5JVM

check the reviews - bummer!

 

[73neb]

 

[borno]

I would imagine that ferreting out these pictures day after day can be a challenge, hat tip to those who do.

Re-runs are fine with me

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[BillW50]

 

[borno]

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[73neb]

 

[dwcraig1]

With today's price of electricity, San Diego is one of the highest, I wanted to use the sleep feature on my Windows 11 desktop. When it would wake up the start menu would be showing as well as the desktop. (Frozen) The mouse cursor would move but could only be used for shut off/restart ect. To remedy this I had to change a setting to where it didn't ask for the PIN upon waking up. All is well now.
My power supply has an app that shows me power in and power out, it uses about 60 watts in at idle.
I have no video card installed so at full speed it is only around 250 watts, much less than I would expect running an i7 12700K with XPM enabled.
The power supply is very efficient under load but not so much at idle. Typical.

 

[BillW50]

Umm dwcraig1... just a thought. I stopped using desktops in 2005. And switched over to laptops and using them with external monitors, keyboards, etc. Basically using them as desktops. I actually have four of them on this desk and taking up less room than one desktop. All connected to the same monitor.

And even my gaming laptops with an i7 and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti still runs about 18 watts at idle (and about 135 watts full out). Even this laptop that I am on now running an i3 with Intel graphics is about 8 watts at idle and about 22 watts full out. I am not sure why they don't use mobile chipsets in desktop PCs. But it sure saves on electricity.

I don't know what you pay for electricity there, but here we are running on hydroelectric power. It has been like 12¢ per kw for decades, but with taxes, etc. it is more like 16¢ per kw.

 

[BillW50]

G3 ends support on AT&T tonight. I sure miss G2 support and analog broadcast. They promised digital broadcast would be better (was it 2009?). Well not in rural areas. I lost about 75% of broadcasts. And the 25% that does make it through, interruptions with pixelizations with no audio. Well I'll take a bit of snow and clear audio instead.