FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org

@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 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.

@leah It's evolving and I already see the transition "Content note" --> "Content hint" --> "Subject". Good luck there, good idea.

@piggo They shouldn't even. My advice:
1. November: prototype/B-version
1. eat them around St. Nicholas day
1. 20th Dec: production version

😄

@piggo getting ready for Christmas?

@mikekav66

> Can't seem to upload videos here so it's a gif without sound.

Upload to peertube and link perhaps.

@piggo 😄 @pony @el_jefe

@piggo

Just a side note on how to do automated IFTTT style automation on weather if you don't mind that you'll get measurements from somebody else and it might be few kms far away - which for wind is OK. There is [APRS protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System) which many better weather stations (among other things which speak APRS) speak and there is a whole network of open stations out there. You can have a look e.g., here: https://aprs.fi. Now all those APRS-enabled wx stations report to [CWOP network](https://www.weather.gov/cle/CWOP) and their data can be scraped from findu.com - you just need to look up the correct callsign. For instance this one is in Prague 6 (Studentska ulice): https://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=fw4588

I did some things this way in the past. But now I am looking for my own gadget.

@pony @el_jefe

@pony It's bulky, that's my problem. I don't want anything protruding more than 2-3cm from the wall. Firstly, I don't care as I said, secondly, it takes space, fourth, I am sure I would just rip it off or break eventually by some stupid move around, and fifth I live at a place where we do have pretty strong winds few times a year, so if badly installed (which is almost a given with my DYI skills), the thing would just fly off the wall eventually.

@piggo @el_jefe

@z428 It's autumn. Not only leaves fall, also some heads apparently.