Just like the good old days when sites would force you to have Internet Explorer and Flash plugin installed to work properly. Amazing.
Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC
Submitted 2 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to selfhosting@slrpnk.net
https://aa55.dev/2025/10/21/Desktop-low-power.html
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Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You mean like today when sites don’t work without using Chromium or if you dare to have some tracking protection active?
Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I take that as a hint that I’m not in the site’s target demographic, and simply close the tab.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I would read this if I weren’t arbitrarily blocked for not installing Firefox on Android, but whatever. Wonder what happens if you use iOS lol…
Hard to imagine what I assume is a blog has any actual requirements preventing non-Gecko browsers unless it’s designed incredibly poorly.
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Works perfectly fine on IOS no matter the browser base.
smh@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I had no problem viewing the site on lynx. I wonder what their list of allowed browsers is. It’s bizarre.
WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 2 months ago
Wolfgangs Channel on YouTube has some elaborate videos on reducing power consumption for home servers, including Google sheets with tests for several PSUs.
thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is almost impossible to achieve those numbers, specially the idle, and the load we can only to be close to them when we use the watt/ per-useful-instruction metric.
recentest hw will have decent idle consumption (n95 is around 2w) but the rest of the hw will consume more and usually you attach more powerful/energy hungry devices so expect <10w in idle and perhaps <25w under load.
Older hw could not be so bad under load but they will idle less and will consume more
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Ryzen 2600 has a TDP of 65W. With a CPU with 35W TDP maybe a passive cooler like the Noctua NH-P1 would work. Still really hard to beat the efficiency of an ARM chip.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LOL, nice.
(I’m only not using Firefox at the moment because I’m on Graphene OS and they claim their “Vanadium” browser is best for some reason, so I was giving it a chance. Getting fed up and about to switch back to Firefox, though.)