The speed of the CPU is entire relevant to Anubis though. The faster the CPU the faster it does the POW, and the faster it lets you in. And OP isn’t alone in it making your machine do a lot of work to get in.

OPs CPU is an absolute potato. My work laptop has a 13th gen Core i9 and it took about 10 seconds to get through at ~700kH/s and that pegged my CPU the entire time. And according to geekbench my CPU is 800% faster single core and 2400% faster multi. Anubis, and any proof of work blocker is just not friendly to old hardware.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/1470080?baseline=14969576

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/5a2feb3c-7588-41d9-a2bf-fbd1d2ff4231.webp

I just tested on my M4 Max machine which absolutely destroys the i9 and it still took about 10 seconds of churning away almost full power to get through. Neither of these machines should be flagged in any way shape or form as bots or needing that deep of an inspection.

I guess whatever distro uses the least resources.

The power difference is going to be negligible though. Unless you’re running a pentium 4 and all you do is boot the OS, check mail, then shut it down you’d never notice a difference. As soon as you open a web browser any savings goes out the window. The web will destroy any savings a distro has.

Also performant doesn’t necessarily mean more efficient. It could mean it better utilizes the hardware, but because it’s using more of the hardware it’s using more power.

I really want to go AV1 too. Most of what I play is airplayed from my ipad to whatever so I only need my iPad to support it. But I’m not buying an iPad air just to airplay AV1.

But H265 has been prevalent for about 10 years now so basically any smart TV made in the last 3 years should support it. And if yours don’t then any el cheapo smart tv stick should.

You don’t even necessarily need to delete either. If you have a ton of H.264 video you could convert it to 265 or AV1 with minimal quality loss, but huge space savings.

In theory if every device in your network is routed to the outside world they could say “fuck this guy in particular”

But idk why they’d bother doing that. They’d detect the blocking all the same and probably not care about IP.

As long as you’re not running something that gets the CPU going crazy I doubt you’d suck in any I Dirt.

They almost always point out what they think the issue is in the log. It doesn’t take much effort to take a snippet of the error, ctrl F, and see that it’s been blowing up 500 times. It’s not hard to verify from there if that was the issue. But if it gives you a fix and that fix worked then presumably it was right.

I ran into a whole list of games I wanted to play that don’t work right when I tried last.

Off the top of my head I know Forza Horizon 5 from the microsoft store doesn’t work. Being from the MS store has nothing to do with it, it’s the splash screen. The controller works great for the 5 seconds it’s up. But when the game actually opens then steam input decides to stop working, even though steam knows the game is still open. Valve could easily fix this by just applying steam input forever until the program quits. But they don’t. So if I want too play that game I need to use a 3rd party steam input wrapper just to make the damn controller act as a controller.

It’s not always accessible. Not all tables have built in outlets in spots that’d reach where I need to be.

Meetings. Have you never had a day where you’re constantly bouncing between meetings, or helping others?

I don’t know about you. But when I get home my work laptop stays in my backpack, and I don’t think about it. I need a laptop with enough battery life that I can get into work the next day and get through a 4 hour meeting without worrying if it’s going to die regardless of what I was doing the previous day.

Microsoft confirmed your computer will boot just fine, it’s just that secure boot is effectively off.

It’s no different from like 80% of Linux distros that don’t support secure boot at all. Except for those you have to actually manually disable secure boot to boot.

I have many complaints about the steam controller. Build quality isn’t one of them.

Not all work properly.

Pretty much any game with a launcher or a splash screen won’t work right.

But do they have the same performance per watt under real life workloads?

Intel CPUs are great at 100% idle, and 100% load. Anything less than that and they tend to fall on their face.

My 12th Gen. Intel laptop gets about 4 hours of battery life just doing Remote Desktop. Going full tilt it’s fairly efficient. At 100% idle it can be good. But a simple task that keeps the CPU lightly busy and it falls on its face.

It’s not 12-14 hours of straight working. It’s 12-14 hours without charging. Sometimes it’s just not convenient. Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?

Plus thanks to S0 standby using so much power just the laptop being in sleep is a decent battery drain.

Economies of scale. How many people actually want to buy this?

Windows power toys added a thing to control the monitor. It lets you do brightness and contrast like monitorian. But it also gives you changing inputs, changing color temperature, and a few other things.

I just tell them I’m gonna be late one day. No PTO necessary.