Playing devil’s advocate here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is wireless spectrum congestion.

Does your FLancher start up by default? I have a similar setup on a Shield, and the home button does go to FL. But whenever it comes out of standby it still goes into the Google launcher with ads on it…

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I’d be more worried about the windows bootloader deciding to overwrite grub

For a company this big it would also have to have gotten past a code review and QA team, right? … right? …

Depends. Since this is security software it probably has a kernel driver component. I think in linux a 3rd party kernel module could do the same. But the community would not accept closed source security software, especially not in the kernel.

Well if everything’s working correctly you’d want the desktop itself to stay close to the sdr values but have applications that are HDR capable to make use of it. Otherwise you’re limited to full screen apps making use of it.

Honestly the LCD decks are so cheap, especially with sales, I don’t think you could build a gaming PC for that price.

It works in KDE + Wayland… mostly… for applications that support it… and there was this update that ruined my color profile for a while but they fixed that now!

Kinda depends on where you live but there often is an excess of hydro and wind power overnight.

It’ll depend on how efficient your phone charger is vs your PC PSU. Looking at some charts, it’s a very close battle but generally the phone charger seems to win out. Probably because it’s more optimized for its max power output, whereas the PSU needs to support a wider range of loads.

https://silentpcreview.com/power-lost-a-better-way-to-compare-psu-efficiency/

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/power/whitepaper/21129264/gan-fulfills-promise-of-efficiency-and-simplified-power-adapter-design

The amount of heat this will add to your case is negligible. We’re talking 15% waste on a 20W load, so 3W worth of extra heat. And that heat is produced in the PSU.

(PSU efficiency standards: https://i.imgur.com/WSWrsCm.gif)

Ah I did some more research and what I said only applies to the older Elgato devices. They did use h264 as the format over usb and you could use that directly without recoding. But they moved to a custom format due to delay and decoding overhead. And ofc you’d want stream ovelays and such which also requires reencoding.

You are correct that the Elgato does video encoding. And that if you use your GPU it’s putting a little bit of extra load on the GPU. But it’s negligible since the video encoding is a separate part of the chip. Maybe you’ll lose a percentage of FPS due to power usage snd bandwidth, but honestly the same is probably true for the CPU load caused by USB bandwidth.

I’ve never felt silicon degradation on a CPU. But I can say that I’ve had a GPU with a stable overclock for years that started getting a bit flakey and I had to go back to stock settings. Of course for GPUs there are also more frequent driver updates. Maybe that effect was due to the driver and games also trying to squeeze more out of the hardware.

The team at Microsoft that was working on it probably got put on different projects. There wouldn’t be anyone to put in the effort to get the code cleaned up of any proprietary libraries, internal references,… No way they are shifting people back around and paying for development to get this done.

While this is true to some extent and newer OSes often come with more resource intensive features. The OS kernels tend to stay light and backwards compatible. There are loads of modern Linux distros that will still run on a pentium 4. It would take extra optimization effort and removal of bloatware from the vendors. And this wouldn’t result in more sales. At best it gets the some brand loyalty.

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External communities are just searchable, subscribable and browsable from here. Sometimes you need to change a search filter or default view from Local to All. Or is there something else you feel is missing? I think 90% of the issues people are having are UX related and not a core issue with federation or decentralization.