Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.
Which is why if you dig deep enough into Settings you'll see WinXP Control Panel UI elements. You know, the elements that are actually useful for power users.
the killswitch is in
about:config
Ah yes, the easiest place to put a kill switch for the average user, as opposed to the complexity of a toggle in settings.
Which is worse?
Surely if X > 0 then this is still a net improvement?
The cable between the two boards would be a maximum of 50cm. 3 of the signals are addresses for a multiplexer that would change at a maximum speed of 2ms per change. One of the other signals is a 20khz pwm signal. The final signal is a zc detector for mains so max Freq of 100/120hz.
None of this will be a problem over 50cm of cat5. If you were talking about millivolt or MHz signalling then you'd have to be a bit more careful.
Regarding wifi and power draw, you could always do batch uploading of data to another server at something like a 1:10 ratio, or upload only when there's a change of more than 1 degree or similar.
There are some low power deep sleep esp32 boards out there that can do like 3-6 months on a couple of AA batteries. A lot of power draw comes from hanging around on wifi doing dhcp, so having fixed addresses can cut down power usage considerably.
Even without using the wifi side of things the esp32 boards come with lots of IO , plenty of drivers for various devices, and a reasonable in-house (i.e. not Arduino) development environment so I'd be leaning in that direction.
You could also look at Sharp's memory LCD as opposed to normal LCD, as that's extremely low power without the fiddlyness of e-ink screens.
each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts
This entirely depends on what energy source we end up using in 2050.
IF , you assume that by 2050 home solar and batteries are a common item, and consumer electric vehicles are predominantly charged at home via those sources , then claims of emissions becoming a concern are moot. Seeing that home solar/batteries are becoming more common now, with 25 years to go, this is not a huge stretch of the imagination.
Each individual vehicle has daily energy requirements that can be sourced relatively easily by local renewables, unlike datacentres which have huge energy requirements requiring energy to be piped in from sources elsewhere.
Apart from that , the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computer hardware is entirely dwarfed by the (handwave guess) ~20kWh/day usage of the actual electric drive system, where trivial improvements in efficiency can compensate for the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computers. Hell, improvements in efficiency because of the adoption of autonomous driving instead of leadfoot humans at the wheel might end up making all this a net positive.
I just got GPU temp monitoring working on my old dell laptop. "Heat management" for the GPU is pretty much just an extra chunk of steel tacked onto the heat pipe halfway between the CPU and its radiator, so GPU temps are always in the red.
I might as well just turn off monitoring and remain ignorant 🤷
It's a 1/4 wave antenna with a groundplane. Physics dictates the size.
Compared to the PCB antenna in your average USB dongle, this would have at least two to three times the range, and likely more than that, because you can put it somewhere more optimal than just poking out the back of your device.
entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology
Or some math nerd will come up with an algorithm for general AI that is embarrassingly simple, and before you know it the "but can it run Doom?" crowd are implementing AI in toasters and watching them have existential crises for the lulz.
promises improved support for Wayland users by raising the minimum supported Wayland version to 1.20...
What a nice fluff piece for NVIDIA. How does ditching users below 1.20 and fixing an issue in their own UI improve support for Wayland exactly?
I do wonder if ditching < 1.20 support just so happens to fix the drop down issue they were having in their UI....
Some of the biggest jumps in house prices were when interest rates were less than 2 percent and you could get a million bucks from the bank just by asking to see the manager and giving them a firm handshake.
The main one I use is the network adaptor settings, where you can enable/disable protocols and most importantly for me, where you can easily add multiple IP addresses on a network adaptor.
The Win 8+ network settings page is an absolute trainwreck. I particularly like how it doesn't warn about conflicting IP addresses now and just silently accepts your given address and provides an auto-assigned 169.254 address instead if it sees even the smallest hint of another computer out there using the address you want to use.
Guaranteed fun and confusion trying to access/ping things until you finally check the status of the network adaptor and discover the auto assigned address, thanks Microsoft.
Not everyone wants to use dhcp, which is clearly their preferred direction, and there have been bugs where Cisco devices trigger that flip to auto assigned addresses even if things are fine.