Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

I'm in a rental too. It's non-invasive; just gotta pop the panel cover off, clip the transformers over the wires without disconnecting them, and put the cover back. It can all be removed just as easily.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

I use Kasm for remote access, I believe that has a WOL component as well. I haven't set it up as such, but I plan to later on.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

Definitely gonna check that out.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

Laptops are pretty good at that I run a few 7th and 8th gen 35W mini PCs in my server cluster (i7-7700T/i7-8700T), so hopefully that helps.

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

Most ISP routers have sane default settings and block all incoming traffic, you don't even reach their log in interface. If they are somewhat updated you'll be fine in most cases.

[amorpheus@lemmy.world]

You can also test if multiple monitors is having an effect.

Using sleep mode is a good idea anyways, regardless of idle draw.

[vonreposti@feddit.dk]

I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

wtf is that

But I agree, random hardware in your LAN is more of a security threat than anything coming from outside in many cases.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Without space between the contents, though, they freeze in phases and it affects how they come out. Watch our or just keep air gaps.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Evaporative clay-pot coolers are also top-load for efficiency.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Yeah. I got a pro managing it.

[majorllama@lemmy.world]

That's the best part. It's not in the kitchen. My room is on the complete opposite side of the house. Literally the furthest room from the kitchen.

Whatever drunk moron wired the house back in the 70s did so in such a confusing manner that electricians give us the "fuck no I'm not fixing that" price when we ask them what it would cost to sort out our completely nonsensical wiring. I think the last guy we talked to quoted us 30k and he pretty much flat out told us nobody will ever want to unfuck our house.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

just

Uh oh. Red flag.

gotta pop the panel cover off,

This may be where the rental agreement is broken. Define 'pop' . Two hands and a tool? Clear it with the landlord first. The company running the 400-unit building where I am now is gonna say F No.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Lat I checked, it was 40w idle for me on the kill-o-watt. Spinny rust and all!

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

It's attached via USB to a 2014-era Mac Mini. Honestly not a huge fan of it.

The kicker is that I'm upgrading it to a 7th-gen based server soon. My dad gave me an old Pentium 4-powered HP Proliant DL110, the case of which has 10x 3.5" drive bays, and is fully ATX compatible, so I'm gonna drop in a 7th gen mobo with Pentium G4560T (already have that on my desk), a newer PSU, and an HBA card. Don't need a ton of processing power for a dedicated NAS running OMV - just a lot of expansion capacity.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

The monitors are part of a 12W draw left after shutting off the PC. The plug is measuring everything plugged into the power strip that powers all of my desktop equipment. The PC itself was drawing ~90W at idle.

[livelm@lemmy.zip]

Check your GPU power usage, I remember seeing people complaining about theirs not clocking down if they had a second monitor plugged in, and other similar issues

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

That's between you and your landlord. Mine was fine with it as it doesn't actually modify any of the wiring.

[lka1988@sh.itjust.works]

Any time I clear out the chest freezer to defrost or get to something at the bottom, the lower half stays below freezing for quite a while. Love that little freezer.

[mudman@fedia.io]

Yeah, I guess that's how mini PCs got popular in the first place. Just cram a laptop in a box, get most of the performance and less of the hassle. At a premium, of course, so I imagine on the manufacturing side it's quite the win/win.

Still, a 10x multiplier in power consumption at idle and over 5x under load is pretty wild.