FlyingPenguin

A video on best computer part deals when you account for the price of electricity. Most videos about computers related to budget cover either: The best fps per dollar parts, or the best computer you can buy given a budget. For this video you would instead target a specific fps@resolution in a specific game@settings, then figure out how hard you can downvolt/underclock different computer parts and how much power each of those consumes. Compair the price difference on the different parts, and account for the cost of electricity for running each of those parts. Examples: Dota2 @ 120 fps 1080p CS:GO 144fps 1440p GodOfWar 60fps 4k (high) Perhaps a 3050 can run dota2 at 120fps 1080p and using 100watts to do so. Maybe a 3070 can do the same thing massively down-volted and limited to 80watts. If you play 5 hours a day, every day and electricity is 20cents/kw thats $0.6/month, if you kept the gpu for 2 years you would save $14.6 going with the 3070 so not worth it. Also how many watts are different CPUs and motherboards (is a mATX b550 significantly less than a atx X570?). Lets have different usage numbers, what about working on the computer 8hours a day on week days (So what are different low-power mode usages) then gaming 2-3hours on week days and 5hours on weekends. As a follow on maybe you can account for AC, all watts used by computers in a hot area has to have electricity spent to have that heat removed. This idea came to me because I bought "The Beast - MonsterLabo" and the passive cooling required extensive down-volting and downclocking of my CPU/GPU. In the end I noticed a drop of $5 a month on my electric bill during the summer. This encouraged me to change my plex from threadripper+gpu to intel i5 with iGPU. Combined with selling my old parts I should break even in 11months. One outlier I have noticed is that my M1 MacBook pro can play world of warcraft @ 3456-2234 @ 60fps while plugged into its 140watt charger. If you are an avid WoW player and you are willing to play on a MacBook propped up on a ergo laptop stand, even though the MacBook would cost around $1,000 more than a desktop+monitor, I imagine the MacBook uses SIGNIFICANTLY less power than the PC setup. Is there a world where buying a RazerBlade to use as a desktop is actually a better deal than a desktop because its optimized for power efficiency? Further thought: Using SSDs in your torrent/plex server instead of spinning rust, assuming you can't spin down your rust how expensive is it to power those HDs for 3+ years (spoiler your electricity better be STUPID expensive for this one)

Just watched the WAN show where linus makes fun of people who think their spotify account means they own the song and it gave me an idea. Why has no site ever tried to integrate with AppleMusic/GoogleMusic/Spotify. You stream with your spotify account on and play music. Viewers have to link their spotify premium account to twitch and when the streamer plays a song, your spotify counts it as a listen. Instead of trying to revolutionize how copyright and licensing works, why not just make it so everyone gets their on individual listen listences for all the streamed stuff?

My favorite part about Floatplane is that a good amount of add spots are removed. I tried to watch an episode of Tech Linked on youtube and found it unwatchable after having only ever watched it on Floatplane. There is another medium that has WAY to many super annoying add spots. Pod casts. Watching the WAN show as I type this (so its not actually open because its basically a podcast) made me realize that floatplane seems to be spending a lot of time and effort making amazing video streaming when there is even more of a need for a podcast app that costs money and removes add spots. Also I have never donated to a podcast because its just to much effort, whereas if I could just add and drop podcasts at random in a way that makes them money that would be awesome. If you listen to the first season of the pocast "startup" made by the guy who created Gimlet Media almost none of the investors wanted to invest in a podcast creation company but every single one of them was super interested in a paid podcast app. What are your guys thoughts? I would love to have others peoples thoughts on this.