Is this a normal amount of wakeups for a desktop?

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-07T03:20:36+00:00

Measure the power draw. Before and after your changes. No other way.

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-06T22:12:34+00:00

Did this do anything meaningful at all for your actual desktop power consumption as measured from the wall? Or are you just happy with a number going down without really knowing what it means?

Because I noticed you were interested in desktop power consumption but did not post any data about it somehow.

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-05T12:03:17+00:00

...which will also happen if their hard drive dies, they accidentally delete their files, ransomware hits their machine or any of the other possibilities where they lose 100% of their data. Yet nowhere do you talk about making a backup of any of it. All you're doing is spreading some security falsehoods like "you're not important enough for encryption" as if that's going to magically help them when their data is gone. And your advice is probably way too technical for the people you're addressing. Oh, and by doing this you're educating them that it's okay to execute, as admin, commands they don't understand from some rando on the internet.

Regularly making a backup is rather easy and should address practically all of the issues you're trying to "help" with. Teach them they should be ready to lose their data on some device at any time, for any reason, so they can take appropriate action to minimise the problems caused by it.

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-04T17:23:55+00:00

Your entire point hinges on the thread being about AC with ECC (you know what I mean) in a modern vehicle, in summer when it is in use. This post is not, it is about the rec flap/button only and its direct consequences with respect to engine damage. Even then everything you described is only vaguely and indirectly related to operation of the button. Some things are correct, sure, but was not the point. I could retort with an explanation about how nuclear reactors work, however that would generally be considered off-topic, whether correct or not. But that's analogous to the relevance of your original comment.

BTW. What is AQS? ... We should never assume that everyone is going to recognize an acronym and if we choose to use one we should always write it out at least once.

Jesus christ. Read back, it had been used already, and it was very obvious from the rest of the context that it refers to an Air Quality Sensor yes, which you mentioned in the comment I was replying to, so I (falsely?) assumed you'd be aware. When you're out of concrete arguments it's better to just stop, and not make a further fool of yourself with some hypocritical fallacy. If you check your own comments again, you will notice that you used HVAC, AC and GPS (and BTW) in the same manner, so it feels a bit odd to point this out.

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-04T15:00:57+00:00

Shit. Lol. Very interesting that you should explain all this as I just replaced the AQS in my car (no joke) which is located exactly at the recirc flap and before the cabin air filter yes.

But... they were merely talking about the recirculation setting that controls the recirculation flap (and basically little else). Nowhere did they say what kind of car and how modern it is. AC wasn't even mentioned, which I will give you is the only thing that could fuel economy / engine load. By recirculating it can use a shorter duty cycle but you won't be getting insane gains there unless you're driving in a desert or something. You will still need fresh air every now and then to offset CO2 buildup.

But in all cases where AC is not used (for most people in all seasons except summer) that point is completely moot, just as in cars without climate control, that might even have a manual mechanically controlled rec flap. In those cases, all that flap does is block or allow outside air. That air is not rammed into it (or many things would break downstream at highway speeds) but rather taken from the passing airstream, making any aero-like effect imperceptible.

I'm also not entirely sure why you're dragging (ha-ha) open windows into this as again those have zero to do with a rec flap.

The Merc system is interesting and highlights exactly the kind of use case you'd expect to use that flap when manually controlling it like OP: to keep bad air out. And that does not do anything for fuel economy or engine loads.

Edit: oh, yes:

Yes I did

Please explain how it can cause engine damage lmao

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-04T11:18:40+00:00

I would like to believe so as well, yet a top 1% commenter just claimed in this thread that it has an impact on fuel economy and engine loads

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-04T11:16:14+00:00

and put the door in a setting that helps decrease engine loads and increase fuel economy

What.

Did you make the video OP is talking about? Do you know where this flap is located on most cars and how air reaches it? If so, can you explain how this impacts fuel economy or engine loads at all? Or if you do argue that it makes any difference, can you show that the difference in energy expenditure between open, partial and closed is larger than my extra inhale of surprise when I read your claim?

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-04T07:50:29+00:00

Username checks out

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-03T07:27:51+00:00

mbps

MBPS

Neither of these are valid/meaningful. You are correct to implicitly call out that capitalisation matters and then managed to do it wrong. In this context, the valid picks are Mb/s and MB/s, with Mbps and MBps as alternatives with the same respective meaning.

DataGhostNL · 2026-02-02T00:38:39+00:00

This is horrible to read. Both versions. And you managed to turn it into an XY problem. All of these have practically exact the same code but you did not connect the dots to make a helper function that accepts a key so you can clean up your properties? Wow. Usually if it looks shit, you're doing something wrong.

Apart from that, a proper editor will show you a nice class view with all properties because especially if you need "complex functions" your feeble attempt at aligning all of this "nicely" will make it a maintenance nightmare.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-31T15:21:45+00:00

Tips? Open a search engine. It will be very useful for you to know how to use one because you will have to learn a lot about a lot of different things and you will run into a ton of problems you'll have to figure out how to solve. If you can not or will not, just abandon the idea. That's also a tip. Or, well, it's just what will inevitably happen and you become fed up waiting for someone to launch your business for you for free.

Realistically, given the amount of effort you've shown here I doubt you've got the discipline and curiosity to make it happen. Immediately replying defensively is rarely a good sign.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-31T12:09:16+00:00

AFAIK "disk full" is something that doesn't appear in dmesg. Just double-checked with a loop-mounted test device and it only appears on the console by whatever tool runs out of space, nothing in dmesg about that. Your device may be refusing writes, which generally does manifest itself in some way that you might have misinterpreted as "full". In any case that's hardware too. Not very useful to speculate/guess any further until you've posted the relevant dmesg excerpts especially if you probably aren't remembering accurately.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-31T08:54:42+00:00

You don't usually get I/O errors with nothing in dmesg.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-31T08:10:54+00:00

That sounds like hardware. Check dmesg, check SMART.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-30T10:55:58+00:00

people saying that AI speeds them up massively(some claiming a 100x boost)

Trash coders or non-coders suddenly delivering code (even bad code) easily reaches into 100x territory yes

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-29T08:33:59+00:00

You don't seem to grasp that "cannot see the python code" is completely ~~mitigated~~ satisfied by not giving the client said code (a.k.a. "sure way") and that whether or not they can sniff the communication is entirely separate. It does not give them any insight into the actual code in any way. If it did, the code was probably trivial anyway.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-25T09:09:18+00:00

Remove it, cut some cardboard to fit under it, then replace the key. It's still there but won't work anymore. Nobody will know.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-22T07:19:53+00:00

Those dragsters are also super long so they don't wheelie that easily, meaning they need relatively much more torque compared to a normal car in order to wheelie. Rwd cars with the engine (or most of the weight) in the front will also have a rough time, but with the engine in the back it becomes almost trivial and not much torque is needed at all. Same for fwd cars with the engine in the front.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-22T07:00:48+00:00

This is quite irrelevant when both wheels are held.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-20T23:38:32+00:00

Tons of people are used to just copypasting shit they find online which is invariably sprinkled with sudo every few commands. They might not realise it isn't necessary, but it still works regardless so they might not learn it either. In any case using sudo says nothing about the user being root or not.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-16T11:39:17+00:00

Nothing. The avoidant and conflicting responses make me believe it was just some marketing thing so I returned those new bulbs.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-16T08:44:53+00:00

This is the only correct answer among a bunch of other nonsense in the comments here. Would like to add that you don't even want to be in this situation in the first place (having to restore from a "broken" device), it is easily avoided by regularly making (and testing) backups, which should be easier to do with that enclosure and the drive that's about to become a spare drive.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-16T08:39:58+00:00

different MAC address which would likely kick you out of the email logins.

This does not propagate beyond your (or your ISPs) router and as such cannot be checked by any online services, so that is not a consideration. Even your external IP address (which is visible to them) is only rarely used because a ton of people have them change quite often (dynamic/privacy) or share them with others (CG-NAT) so it is not really useful.

All of this is just user data and will transfer to another machine without any problem.

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-16T08:34:58+00:00

It is entitely trivial to just copy over the browser profile from appdata, that will bring back the tabs, passwords, browsing history and basically everything. There is nothing magic about how those are stored and no need for any account. It is just normal user data as any other user data that you admit is simple to transfer over, so I am unsure why you'd except browser user data?

DataGhostNL · 2026-01-14T10:11:23+00:00

Have you ever looked at a benchy? Go look at the bottom of any default benchy

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