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The machine seems conflicted.. It has the HP logo but is a compaq model... With AI (LLM SALAMI) and the attacks on Iran driving up CPU and various component costs, refurbishing old machines and Frugal Computing in general will become more attractive (better know!?!?) for more people...
> prices for electronics are already up 200% to 500%. And they’ll go higher. Memory is near unfindable, and now CPU chips are getting rare.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/the-ai-bubble-and-the-global-polycrisis/
#OldPCs #FrugalComputing
The AI bubble and the global polycrisis

The AI bubble is a symptom of our wider economic problems. It’s the last thing masking the bigger systemic issues — so they don’t show up in the macro numbers. Just on the ground. But the US bombed…

Pivot to AI

To answer my own question, it is somewhere between 25 kW and 60 kW.
For comparison, the NVIDIA DGX-A100 consumes 6.5kW.

Moreover, this requires Helium-3 which is only 20 ppm in natural Helium (most is Helium-4). I have not yet found the amount of energy required per liter of Helium-3, my guess is that it will be very large.

#FrugalComputing #QuantumComputing

@macrumors TL;DR One is vastly overdimensioned for its workload. The other, also. #frugalcomputing

@requiem np.

It's basically a minimalist #toybox#musl / #linux distro designed on being brutally simple, reproduceable, auditable and efficient.

  • Mostly for #FrugalComputing and targeting systems that current mainstream #distros don't serve.
    • Basically trying to be the "bare minimum I could use to work from as a sysadmin"...
PROTIP: Instead of telling people to ditch their Alexa or Google Nest in the name of #privacy, convince them that voice commands* are inefficient trash compared of devices with remotes.

* might be useful if you're physically disabled or have extreme RSI, but it shouldn't be an excuse to sell your soul to Amazon et. al.
(mostly venting about my dad and his devotion to a fundamentally dodgy design, to be honest)

#degoogle
#permacomputing
#frugalcomputing

@lispi314 precisely that!

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency

Climate cost of bad feed handling #RSS #podcast #Podbean #Spotify #Google #Apple

@reiddragon @afriendlykittycat or have to deal with #embedded stuff of the #Vortex86 variety...

But maybe that's me who believes in #FrugalComputing and that any box that could run #WindowsXP should still be useable for basic browsing and stuff.

  • Not like 8k120p HDR YouNuke and shit, but like basic sites (i.e. Wikipedia), eMail, RSS, IRC & XMPP+OMEMO.

But maybe that's me who thinks that shit should be accessible even if the user:

  • Only has an original EeePC 701 with it's Xandos-based OS
  • is blind and/or deaf
  • is stuck on a 2400 bit/s connection via Iridium
  • or all three combined!
I have been enjoying @yihui's litedown (h/t @defuneste) and this is one part of the reason. #RStats #FrugalComputing
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency

Climate cost of bad feed handling #RSS #podcast #Podbean #Spotify #Google #Apple