The brand seems to be “Tricklestar” (I have to admit I’ve never even heard of the brand, but it’s been working for years now).

I also learned that PC’s draw a lot of power lol. I used to sit on my PC all day, now I know how much it cost. Even the monitor turning off splits the power draw by half.

My state has a green energy initiative that gives us free home energy audits, mostly it means we get a lot of free led lights. But it also got us these nice automated power strips, you plug one item (the pc) into a control socket, and when that device turns off, it cuts power to the other managed sockets (monitors, speakers, etc). A really simple solution that must save a bunch of power.

Yeah, I’ve actually been pretty disappointed as of late with the power consumption of my custom PCs. I actually can’t remember the last time I had a PC with sleep states that actually work, maybe it was 8 years ago?

On my last motherboard, whenever you woke the machine from sleep, some board modules wouldn’t power up correctly, you had to restart to get full functionality again. I have a second PC as a home media server, that one never fully wakes up from any sleep state (luckily it’s a server, so it’s always on). My current gaming PC regularly crashes whenever the machine is (ironically) at low processor load. (That’s the amd automatic energy saving features totally failing)

I don’t know whether to blame the motherboards, the processors, or the OS, but any way you slice it, my computers are only happy if they’re consuming 300 watts all the time…

And on the other hand, I gather chest freezers are actually decently efficient.

Sure they are, one they figure out it how.

If you actually had a catch all service

I believe this used to be called cable tv.

But before you reply, yeah, I know cable didn’t get everything. And you had to pay extra for Disney, HBO, etc. And on top of the exorbitant price there were always tons of commercials. That’s all true.

But I do remember a time right around 2005, when everyone was saying “if only there were a-la-carte options, for people who only want sports, or only want movies”. My point being, there’s no winning and the grass is always greener somewhere.

And for what it’s worth, I basically agree with you. I use Plex, I have a few friends who also run Plex servers and we all share content. That’s the best catch all I’ve ever found.

You can’t legislate piracy away…

It’s fascinating that the system consistently misunderstands how syllables work.

I mean, initially I think it was weighting the importance of the syllable structure to low, because it’s of absolute importance in haiku. But then later when it assessed the syllable problem, I think it was still miscounting with some lines.

What a weird response. I was addressing your comment. You didn’t mention Palestine.

Oh whoops, it must have been a different post in this thread that I mentioned Gaza.

you would rather play the Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism card and assume that I receive Xi bucks.

I’ve said nothing of the sort. That sounds like deflection.

I never said it was exceptional, quite the opposite, I’m saying many countries have border disputes.

Interesting that you don’t seem to care about my other examples, Gaza or Crimea. Got a soft spot for China?

Well yeah, as of 6 years ago, after China invaded with military force, HK has been recognized as part of China on all maps. But Google showed it as part of China even before then.

And then yeah, I just remembered the wrong name, it was the border of Tibet/Bhutan that are in dispute, so parts of Bhutan display as Chinese territory.

Thanks for catching that.

You know Google owns Waze right?

This is a good reminder and sanity check. Things this big are rarely easy to change.

They did (in Russia). There’s no hypocrisy here. Just blanket compliance with local authority.

The maps look different when viewed in different regions, this becomes apparent whenever there’s contested territory, like crimea, the China sea, Gaza. We only see the maps that our local government approves.

Yeah, I’m with you.

This timeline took a serious nosedive somewhere around 2010. I’m no longer sure think we’re pulling out of it…

That’s an interesting theory, we may just test that out.

But I suspect that ten years from now, it’s name will be whatever it’s been saying on the maps. Just ask New Yorkers (sorry, I mean new Amsterdamers).

For what it’s worth, this is how Google maps has always worked. Use Google maps in China and you’ll notice that borders are in different places, HK, Tibet Bhutan, the whole China sea, those are within China’s borders. It’s the same with Russia, crimea is just part of Russia if you use Google maps in Russia. If your country recognizes different borders or different names for places, that’s what Google shows you in your country. It’s basically either that or they can’t operate in that country, so they don’t really have a choice if they want to exist in that region.

Right, but in that metaphor, the study changes nothing, that was my point.

Yeah, I think that’s a pretty solid theory. Makes more sense when looked at that way.

My understanding is that DeepSeek still used Nvidia just older models

That’s the funniest part here, the sell off makes no sense. So what if some companies are better at utilizing AI than others, it all runs in the same hardware. Why sell stock in the hardware company? (Besides the separate issue of it being totally overvalued at the moment)

This would be kind of like if a study showed that American pilots were more skilled than European pilots, so investors sold stock in airbus… Either way, the pilots still need planes to fly…

A modern marvel. Isn’t it amazing what they can do these days?