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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Actually if anyone has advice I’d love to hear. My server is a b450 mobo with an athlon 320ge. Even with no hard drives spinning it uses 65watts. I don’t understand how it is possible. 6 hard drives bring it to 85-90. Running truenas if it matters

    I keep it off most of the time to safe power, I was expecting especially with such a cou much lower wattage, like under 20 idle. My assumption is the power supply can’t get low enough.












  • Probably all smart thermostats, but for sure at least the Google thermo will offer to enroll your thermo in a rewards kinda program. Will get money (100$/yr for me) for Google to lower your HVAC use during major loads. Also you get a warning before it happens.

    A lot of power companies also offer pretty much the same thing, but they can control it. Usually you get a few over rides per year before some penalties.

    It’s a good idea and should probably be the norm, should probably just fix the grid instead of the bandaid too