On Fri, 9 May 2025 16:43:45 -0000 (UTC) Greg <curtys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's the "embedded" CO2 usage of a nuclear reactor, I wonder. > Big power plants are obviously great consumers of power themselves, some of the greatest probably. More notoriously, they'll usually need lots of power to power up, nothing from nothing. Though I rather wonder if there's anything that granting another kilowatt-hour would give more headache than if it's for an NPP's control systems. It's a curious discussion to have for sure, just to think that somewhere some teenager with six smartphones, three tablets, and two laptops is begging for a replacement because the last purchase is already three months behind. My heart goes out to those with a heart for working things, we will always carry the day if only because there were strictly less gadgety things around in the past, with much fewer still with us, and this is strictly always true. Quantity matters, this isn't just a power thing. For what it's worth, my oldest "pet" now is actually a Haswell, i7, 16GB, 2014-ish?! Wasn't my purchase. adopted. Running Linux, thing called Debian, in this case in fact a full-blown KDE, of course up to date. Why on Earth would that not do? Hah! Easy, responsive, everything works. As for noise, I have rather acute hearing and even watching some livestream on that thing, if you had to, there is nothing to it. No different from some SFF or laptop indeed. For the sake of completeness, this is a refurbed system, but this is how we live up to it. And keep it up. Until about two years ago I kept a Phenom II in operation, this is of 2009 vintage or therearbout? Classic. In the end it used to make a cool music server, among some other things, loved it. There's someting for everything, but either way I doubt we'll save the planet here. ;)
