The humanity has all the knowledge and tools it needs at this point to have anybody: individual persons, counties, countries, continents be much more self-sufficient in energy, in a way that makes economic (and all sorts of other) sense.

I am glad to personally be largely independent of molecule-sourced energy March to October. Hoping that the countries affected by oil instability take this as an opportunity to learn this lesson as well.

Air has no thermal connection to the chassis for the purpose of making it safe to have in contact with skin.

People have been modding theirs to make this contact, though. And been getting a significant performance boost out of it.

I believe we are talking about slightly different things. Yes if they thermally coupled the body to the processor, then a small patch of the body would get very hot, burning the user.

However, the fact that the aluminum gets hot during prolonged use means that it is acting as a heat sink and cooling the CPU compared to a body made of plastic. Thermodynamics, it's the law!

>However, the fact that the aluminum gets hot during prolonged use means that it is acting as a heat sink and cooling the CPU compared to a body made of plastic. Thermodynamics, it's the law!

Not really. It's picking up "stray heat" that is radiated from the copper heatsink inside and conduction from the air in the fan system. It does not improve cooling the processor in any kind of manner. If it were plastic, the plastic would get warm too. Maybe it'll be a 2 degree difference.

Direct contact or bust.

It should improve ambient temperatures inside the body, allowing for more heat transfer.

It might be marginal, though.

It does actually help. All heat radiated into the aluminium isn’t in the copper, so makes it to the environment. The copper remains cooler overall.

Doesn't YMTC focus on NAND (i.e. flash storage) rather than DRAM? Regardless, point stands.

CXMT (dram) and YMTC (nand).

MBP never goes into proper sleep.

I got one from work that I don't use much outside of travel and haven't changed in any way past initial setup. It stays connected to WiFi and continuously broadcasts various discovery packets for the past month and a half since I last opened it up.

I know that, I meant: Steam is preventing it from going into that sleep phase (it's still a sleep phase after all) and keeps the OS awake.

Its weird to read about Schneider Electric not bothering with brand awareness. They aren't a household brand, sure, but they are well up there with Siemens and the like in industrial/b2b sector and their marketing budget is allocated accordingly.

All they did was buy up everyone's else brand and put their brand over it. Modicon PLC's, Magnecraft relays, etc.

This superloop pattern can also appear in more abstract scenarios as well.

The wildly popular ESPHome is also driven by a superloop. On every iteration the main loop will call an update handler for each component which then is supposed to check if the timers have elapsed, if there is some data coming from a sensor, etc before doing actual work.

This pattern brings with it loads of pitfalls. No component ought to do more than a "tick" worth of work or they can start interfering with other components who expect to be updated at some baseline frequency. Taking too long in any one component can result in serial buffers overrunning in another component, for example.

In my homelab I've been using very barebones options (the one built into systemd-networkd as well as the dhcp server built into RouterOS) and never found myself needing a web interface, a database or anything… really. It has been sufficient to add the couple dozen static allocations to the configuration files and forget DHCP exists. Even HA is not something I found myself wanting as nodes will retain their lease well over the period of downtime incurred during botched upgrades.

How fancy does a network needs to be before this starts making sense? Who are the target audience for this project?

I’ve hit twice over the last year where it was needed. Though in one case, it’s because a server that was physically old enough to vote happened to be handling dhcp and dns. I set the other, only slightly less old, server to be primary on both but left the original functioning just in case with failed.

The main need I had was for a bank. Network functionality is obviously highly important there. Windows updates impacted the dhcp service on one server, which wasn’t an obvious thing till leases started running out the following morning. Multiple DC’s, so set up for HA to avoid issues in the future. It’s almost never needed but great to have when total uptime is key to operations.

I always buy the cheapest PWM fans available in a nearby store (so usually Arctic) and I never had one fan fail on me in my life.

They almost never run 100%, though, and I have a recurring task set up to clean dust outta my filters, computers and servers.

OT, but what do you use to manage recurring tasks? I haven't found any solution that I love.

The title qualifies "Android TV" with a "Streaming Box" right after. Lots of service providers supply such a box to subscribers (similarly to how ISPs provide all-in-one firewall-router-modems.) Even then these are extremely cheaply made, underpowered and largely unmaintained internet connected devices. And indeed you can purchase one such box yourself (including with piracy features as described here,) but I'd be surprised if the vast majority of these devices aren't supplied by the service providers.