Robin

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[–] Robin 10 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Robin 13 points 5 months ago

Call people? For database software??? I'll install postgres from my private dark corner tyvm

[–] Robin 23 points 5 months ago

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!

[–] Robin 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Get you a wife that also games

[–] Robin 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Robin 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Robin 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Robin 76 points 5 months ago

Or just don't use it

[–] Robin 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Robin 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Is that steel wool in the front? Probably a science demonstration. If you quickly increase pressure in the air vessel up front by shooting the bow, the temperature spikes up enough to ignite the steel wool.

[–] Robin 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

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