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I just realized that his tiny screen consumes 120W when turned on. Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy?
Nice! My brother made a fanless gaming PC and it’s pretty nice. Sadly GTX 1650 was the last GPU available with a passive cooler [0]. So sooner or later it will be EOL. Afaik no RTX card was ever released with a passive cooler 0, https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=3494
I just realized that his tiny screen consumes 120W when turned on. Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy?
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This might be a hard pill to swallow, but if a romantic partner is dismissive of something like “this makes a noise that is really distressing/painful/annoying” there is really only one explanation: this person doesn’t care about you or your well being. Leave now. There is truly nothing to argue about with someone’s subjective experience. Your real argument was about if your well being matters or not.
Whenever anyone posts anything about their partner that isn’t purely positive, people will come out of the woodworks to tell them to end the relationship. From this one little anecdote you can’t judge that relationship.
> Ex-girlfriends aside...
Something I've learned from discussing computer hardware informally online over the years is that people have vastly different standards for what it means for fans to be "silent" in use. So much so that it's hardly worth discussing, because someone will insist that such and such fan or actively-cooled device is silent, and then you buy it and it sounds like crap. I suspect it's "Cloth Ears" in many cases.
Witness people who don't notice screen tearing in X11, or people who don't mind (or even prefer!) Windows font rendering.
Something I've learned from discussing computer hardware informally online over the years is that people have vastly different standards for what it means for fans to be "silent" in use. So much so that it's hardly worth discussing, because someone will insist that such and such fan or actively-cooled device is silent, and then you buy it and it sounds like crap. I suspect it's "Cloth Ears" in many cases.
I think it's not just different standards (quiet = "I can't hear it when blasting Call of Duty at an unhealthy volume") but likely the prevalence of hearing damage. A 30 dB noise is way less noticeable if your threshold of hearing is in the 10-30 dB range instead of the -10 to 10 dB range. Likewise the ability of people to perceive separate noises simultaneously differs. (Likewise many people say they can't hear the…
This leads to interesting things like for many a white noise source (actually pink noise) nicely blots out most other auditory stimuli by helping direct attention away. Yet the noise source itself heightens sensitivity (why some people find ANC annoying).
Finally some people simply can not direct their attention strongly and it's worsening.
Hypersensitivity it's being swallowed up as an autism trait but many people simply aren't as trained at directing attention than we were in the past since we have such loud hobbies.
Mindfulness does wonders here.
Very well done :) I have an aversion to sound that borders on a "disability", lol the biggest fights I had with my girlfriend was about sounds (The minute, the repeating and the periodic ones)" The one where we argued if the UPS 20sec alarm two rooms away is "not that bad" or "ice-picks-in-my-brain" was especially dividing. Ex-girlfriends aside... I really like your setup and you are so right about the RGB crap ! Com…
Many people are simply more sensitive to sounds than others.
Most of those people can develope more tolerance by practising attention focusing.
It's a skill we've lost since we took so much control of our environment.
Very well done :) I have an aversion to sound that borders on a "disability", lol the biggest fights I had with my girlfriend was about sounds (The minute, the repeating and the periodic ones)" The one where we argued if the UPS 20sec alarm two rooms away is "not that bad" or "ice-picks-in-my-brain" was especially dividing. Ex-girlfriends aside... I really like your setup and you are so right about the RGB crap ! Com…
Do consider mindfulness for your sensitivity to sound. Many people are simply more sensitive to sounds than others. Most of those people can develope more tolerance by practising attention focusing. It's a skill we've lost since we took so much control of our environment.
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Whenever anyone posts anything about their partner that isn’t purely positive, people will come out of the woodworks to tell them to end the relationship. From this one little anecdote you can’t judge that relationship.
You can probably judge that relationship at least a little from: > Ex-girlfriends aside...
Well, we did break up. If I had to sum it up in once sentence. We had very different "stress-profiles". We still good friends 3 years later and I get regular updates about our dogs (though they all live in a different country)
Something I've learned from discussing computer hardware informally online over the years is that people have vastly different standards for what it means for fans to be "silent" in use. So much so that it's hardly worth discussing, because someone will insist that such and such fan or actively-cooled device is silent, and then you buy it and it sounds like crap. I suspect it's "Cloth Ears" in many cases.
I think it's not just different standards (quiet = "I can't hear it when blasting Call of Duty at an unhealthy volume") but likely the prevalence of hearing damage. A 30 dB noise is way less noticeable if your threshold of hearing is in the 10-30 dB range instead of the -10 to 10 dB range. Likewise the ability of people to perceive separate noises simultaneously differs. (Likewise many people say they can't hear the…
When PulseAudio added "absolute volume control" support, I found out it would sometimes fake in extra clicks in which the actual volume would NOT change, but gave the impression of granularity. Wonders of HDA & usb audio...