Ashley MLP Fangirl

it's also ancient. there are reasons to want a low end nvidia card. i haven't looked at the 1010 at all, but if it has nvenc then that's a pretty awesome usecase for it if you main gpu is AMD for example. or maybe someone has a system with a proprietary power supply (they bought a prebuilt off eaby for $20 or whatever) that does not have pci-e power. that severely limits your gpu options, and modern low end cards liek the 1030 and iirc the GTX 1050 too do not require pci-e power connectors on the power supply. i know older cards are a LOT faster, but they aren't always practical. i say that as an owner of a GTX 690, one of the coolest cards nvidia has ever made. but, there is a reason it sits on a shelf as a collection item even though it's in working condition. it's just not practical.

i don't know what specific grub configuration Kali uses, but i do know that the grub customizer program you are using is quite old and i don't know if it works at all with the version of grub you have. the one i'm familiar with uses the command "sudo update-grub", you could try running that in a terminal but i can't say for sure if it will work. alternatively, you could try making an ubuntu usb, erasing your Kali partitions (be careful not to delete the Windows one's) and then install Ubuntu ont he space where kali was before. this will obviously delete all data on your Kali install, but it will give you a new grub install that should pick up your Windows install. sidenote, why do noobs install kali it's the worst thing you could possibly do.

define "the west" lmao, last time i checked the netherlands is part of it. we are right next to the UK.

here you have special bicycle sections along the road in villagees (speed limit in villages never goes above 50km/h (30mph), and on the faster roads where the cars go 80km/h (50mph) there is a section of road entirely seperate from the main road often seperated by a treeline specifically for bicycles.

oof. in the netherlands we have bicycle lanes everywhere, all the roads are designed with bicycles in mind and stuff. it's great. at junctions bicycles even get their own lane and traffic lights so we don't go at the same time as the cars.

but you have to be able to afford that. i can't afford a brand new Mac Mini for example.

because everything else i do is very environmentally-friendly. i don't own a car (i go everywhere either on a bicycle or by train), i don't eat many foods that are terrible for the planet to produce, etc etc.

my TV uses like 250W though. it's a massive widescreen CRT that requires 2 people to move.

you do realize i have 2 cpu's right? with a 95W tdp each?

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uuuh why not jsut install linux on it and run it all without virtualization?

this is an ultrabook...

mine is actually from that era, it's a HP 9470m. it's 3rd gen intel.

there is a reason why i have an old laptop. the cpu is soldered, but batteries, ram, storage, wifi card, it can all be swapped out.

i have the 2nd cpu because the power is very nice to have. also it was a very cheap solution to getting loads of computing power. i don't have money for a brand new system with comparable performance to this machine. for your context, in multicore this old beast is faster than a brand new 10th gen core i5, and the cpu's, mobo and ram cost me 170 euro in total. i consider ideling also stuff like watching youtube, like, youtube takes up 4 ot 5% of the cpu's. that's considered idle to me.

i'm using a server motherboard. it's designed to run 24/7 and constantly work. it's not designed to turn off features dynamically or anything like that...

my monitors are old too, i didn't include those though. like, my PC has 2 Xeon CPU's in it, each use like 40W idle at least. then you have to account for motherboard, and you're at 100W idle.

true, but my computer idles at 100W, a modern computer even if it has high power components in it idles at half that.

i genuinly do wonder sometimes what is worse for the planet. the rampant consumerism you see, people upgrading as soon as something new comes out regardless if they need it or not; or using old stuff. like for example of couse it harms the planet if i build a new computer every year, but my current 11 year old computer also does damage, it's power consumption is a lot higher than a newer computer for example. same with my tv. you have people who buy a new tv every year, or people like me. i still use a CRT from the 90's which again consumes a lot more power than a modern tv would. i would like to hear opinions on this, as it's something i think about quite a bit.