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6 days agoI’ve got a serverrack on the attic, what is spare solar power? ;)
I’ve been considering getting a battery, but until I’m actually going to any meaningful surplus in power its not really worth the investment for me.
I’m from the EU and got 6 panels for a total of about 2kW on my roof, my house isn’t on a optimal angle though, so I’m not often tapping the max capacity.
Back when starting your computer and launching programs took a good chunk of your first hour at work (this was about 10-15 years ago for me), having startup programs meant you could just
those people in sitcoms chilling at coffee machines were probably waiting for their PC to start. Launching corporate software took ages, having them started neatly by windows saved you from having to start the next program when the previous was finally launched after a few minutes.
The biggest bump in computer performance in history wasn’t getting more memory or a faster CPU, it was switching from a HDD to a SSD.