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@TeacherGriff I guess that depends on what one looks for, be it human-level conversations, elitist banter, broadcasting yourself, or just sh*tposting. Nothing wrong with either, people derive pleasure from different things.

I am primarily interested in human interactions, conversations. So from your list, it's mostly (1) for me. My strategy is to follow liberally and then every now and then weed out, or simply mute people who either turn out toxic, or broadcast things I don't like, don't understand, or consider waste of time.

https://nitter.it/francis_scarr/status/1590011071074820102#m

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@DrK if in doubt, either the server admin @freemo is always there to help, or one of the moderators. I guess they also read the local timeline (I don't really).

@DrK Go ahead, explore. It's not difficult. And always ask, that's faster than wasting time being confused while looking around. And typically one gets to know more people that way too, which is a Good Thing ™️ .

@DrK welcome

@pony I guess that for 10k CZK you'd get a nice passively cooled NAS for your disks. My RAM upgraded QNAP with x64 Intel Celeron happily runs the disks together with all the `lxc`/`docker` containers I need (and Kodi, Plex, et al.) and occasionally a Windows VM just for fun. I did not measure how much it really draws, but QNAP's spec says 10W at disk idle and 18W operational. That's a magnitude less than the PC we spoke about above.

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@pony Maybe in fact it's not idling 😕 . Anyhow, at that price tag, suddenly that 10% price hike at Hetzner for a dedicated machine does not look too bad, right?

@piggo

@pony Right, and especially looking at its BIOS power setting and disk usage is useful.

I know this is nit-picky, but myself I get always mightily annoyed when every now and then a firmware/app update on my NAS causes it spinning disks without a reason - just because some silly app dev somewhere on the other side of the world thought that polling I/O is a smart move or something. Apart from the sound being annoying (I have it in the living room), it annoys me that some stupid software is playing disco with my disks without any good reason.

@piggo

@pony Well, I have that too, but with a laptop at a dock station. Anyhow, when you eventually discover what it is, please report back, I am curious. Being an energy saving freak is nothing new for me, but I guess more people around are adopting this as a new hobby these days 😉

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@pony

Just randomly googling around tells me that an average PC with a display would do around 250W at peak and maybe half that at idle. Assuming 10h/day on, that would make anywhere between 400-900kWh/yr. Well, that's a lot. I never though about it this way. Hmm.

@piggo

@pony BTW, are you sure you don't have a "prutokovy ohrivac" somewhere (like kitchen)?

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I look at that Shelly stuff, it's rather fancy. I'd go for it only if it's a permanent installation. If @pony wants just one-off thing, I guess going for any of these https://www.amazon.de/s?k=smart+plug&crid=1EHBLDW76GW5W&sprefix=smart+plug%2Caps%2C94&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 which come with an app might be cheaper. Even buying just one and using it sequentially per single appliance over a couple of days could do the trick.

@pony That's quite a lot if you live as a single person. I do like <1500kWh/yr with 2 persons on average, so that's in the @piggo 's range. If you spend 1/3rd more, some appliance is probably eating too much - old lamps, bad fridge, washing clothes every day, or something.

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@LunaFoxgirlVT@vt.social is that all?

It's much busier here around suddenly. Maybe it's time to weed out my timeline once again 🤔 .

@z428 keep it up, I always appreciate these little daily mood vignettes of yours.

@kf I am a vim person too, but for LaTeX wysiwym editing, Lyx is the tool for me. And with beamer it has always worked well - with a bunch of little caveats here and there around edge cases.