Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.

alphacyberranger@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• waigl@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just… not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.

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  • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would literally not matter since it all ends up as heat in the end which is what you’re looking for

    Minus 5 watts on the three fans or something

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My Pc is a good 500W heater with an attached entertainment generator.

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      • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Playing Frostpunk and my PC is literally the generator.

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      • Nythos@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • paholg@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The electricity from the fans also ends up as heat.

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      • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hot damn, that’s true

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even if it’s 97% efficient, a heat pump can still beat it.

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      • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True that

        I wish heatpumps ran factorio 😔

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yea but can you game on a heat pump?

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        More like 99.99% the only electricity coming into the PC and not heating the house is the very small amount of light and sound leaving the house. Still worse than a heat pump, but pretty efficient at heating.

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      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        EVs are finally starting to use heat pumps for heating and cooling their batteries (and cabin climate), I wonder how long before that’s available for PCs? Just need a little hole saw to get an evaporator/condenser outside.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But running the 4090 would keep your cottage warm.

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• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you mean? I can run my 4090 to hear the house instead of my furnace

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  • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got an RX 6800 yesterday, can’t wait to test out its heating capabilities lol

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    • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m slightly joking but not completely, my office is above my garage so it get much colder during winter if I leave the door shut, so I just fire up Cyberpunk for an hour and my whole room is superheated. It’s pretty wild

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, it’ll keep the house warm!

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I kept the main room of my condo warm for a winter by having two rigs running 24/7 while I didn’t have a baseboard because I was doing renovations!

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• sverit@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine the OC potential at those low room temps!

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