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Switching to a lower power consumption setup |
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Over the past months I found joy in the process of minimizing the power |
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consumption of my setup. |
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I really started to hate the idea to burn a lot of electrical power, just |
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to have some moving pixels amuse me. |
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I looked for alternatives. Alternative hardware, software and workflows. |
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The question was: Can a different game entertain me aswell while consuming |
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much less power? I found joy in this frugality. |
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I replaced my former computer (including a big graphics card) by a humble |
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Intel N97 Processor. This was my main PC now and I loved it. |
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(I know some readers wouldn't even consider an N97 humble.) |
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https://www.gmktec.com/products/intel-alder-lake-n97-mini-pc-nucbox-g5 |
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In order to still be able to play games with friends, I had to lower some |
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graphics settings. There was one game that was only playable after I |
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closed my browser and closed discord. Discord being the communication- |
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application that my friends prefered to use. |
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In my opinion discord is a harmful, sucky software anyway. In order to |
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stay connected I used an alternative lightweight client called ripcord. |
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https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ |
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You might think this is not a desirable state and I agree! Nevertheless |
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it is very tough to break contact with long distance friends with whom |
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you stay connected via these games. |
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Anyway wanted to get rid of this bad software. The joy to use a sane, |
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humble setup is much stronger in me right now. |
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My lesson learned was: |
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"Joy doesn't scale with compute power. But achieving equal joy with |
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less compute power feels awesome!" |
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Once the stone was rolling I switched more and more back to terminal based |
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applications in order to deal with daily tasks. At the same time I felt |
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so much more productive. |
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I had a fun journey with a minimal setup running on: |
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Alpine Linux (musl) |
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- busybox |
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- git |
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- dwm (+dmenu,slstatus) |
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- st |
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- tmux |
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- vim |
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- mpv |
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- chromium |
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no ricing |
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A good friend of mine is continiously encouraging me to switch to linux. |
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In the next weeks I will have to decide if I wanna stay on linux (Alpine, |
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Void,Gentoo or even linux from scratch?) or switch to a OpenBSD desktop. |
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Wish me luck. |
