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New comment by mrmlz in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

mrmlz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:30:07 +0000

Back from my old overclocking days - its heat that kills life. And if you keep that under control (what ages is the heatpaste, replace it ever so often) i very much doubt you'll have any life issues from the cpu itself.

Bearings in fans, caps etc. are also stuff that you need to keep an eye on.

I just replaced a i5-660 thats been powered on since 2010 24/7, heatpaste was fucked so it crashed during heavy loads :)

New comment by mrmlz in "State of Homelab 2026"

mrmlz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:51:34 +0000

Ah okay 150w is not _that_ bad - more than a rpi for sure but still :)

And another cpu+chipset is always going to eat som Watts just by existing.

New comment by mrmlz in "State of Homelab 2026"

mrmlz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:33:51 +0000

I've recently upgraded my ageing X8SIL Supermicro with an i5 to a X10 Sm board with a 2960 V4 14core Xeon... I was expecting a horrible power situation but it's less than 100w with a handful of spinning disks etc.

I see lots of people complaining on power with their re-used ProLiant and others etc. Is it the throttling or bios settings that messes with the idle power?

Or are you just running it at 100% and my low usage is what saves my electricity bill?

New comment by mrmlz in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

mrmlz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:44:00 +0000

You are aware of our different price-markets in sweden right? SE4 is priced at the export prices for Danish wind and German goal - which sucks for Swedes in SE4 (and to some extent SE3). SE4 can eat their own dogfood since they cut the Nuclear Power and are now burning oil instead (Karlshamnsverket).

New comment by mrmlz in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

mrmlz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:55:49 +0000

At scale.

New comment by mrmlz in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

mrmlz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:17:52 +0000

As a Swede i'd like to cut the cord to Denmark/Germany. That would greatly reduce our electricity costs in south/mid Sweden.

Let them enjoy their "cheap" wind and battery solution.

New comment by mrmlz in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

mrmlz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:17:36 +0000

It has worked great in Sweden until a decade or so ago! Depends on the population and general sense of community.

New comment by mrmlz in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

mrmlz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:29:07 +0000

Poorly dried wood?

We just installed a second woodburningstove in our house, https://www.contura.eu/en-gb .. and i mean you can mess up your fire by burning wet wood etc. or... paper i dunno.

But dried wood burns really clean, absolutely no smell INSIDE the house (wtf?!) and outside you see a thin whisp of smoke from the chimney.

New comment by mrmlz in "Greenpeace pilot brings heat pumps and solar to Ukrainian community"

mrmlz — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:13:57 +0000

Why wouldnt a heatpump work during the winter? I.e. the entire nordic uses heatpumps..

New comment by mrmlz in "Xfce is great"

mrmlz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:31:53 +0000

XFCE is x11 only which might alleviate some Wayland bugs with nvidia.

New comment by mrmlz in "The biggest heat pumps"

mrmlz — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:42:29 +0000

Yeah i feel like the other answers tries to gaslight me and downvoting to hide the ugly truth! :)

Would you say modern (i.e. <10 years) are properly insulated and built or are there still... shortcuts?

New comment by mrmlz in "The biggest heat pumps"

mrmlz — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:06:44 +0000

It is weird, especially since Germany usually is quite a bit cheaper when it comes to tools, construction materiel etc. compared to Sweden.

New comment by mrmlz in "The biggest heat pumps"

mrmlz — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:04:38 +0000

Yes! I was told "its easier to replace when it freezes" :) Obviously older houses.

New comment by mrmlz in "The biggest heat pumps"

mrmlz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:36:31 +0000

Hrm. It might be cheaper than in Germany but its not cheap in Sweden except for the most nordic parts (hydro).

South Sweden - i think the prices are more on par with germany.

New comment by mrmlz in "The biggest heat pumps"

mrmlz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:35:04 +0000

UK houses are really interesting.. Single-glass windows, poor insulation etc. And plumbing on the OUTSIDE(!) :)

Are the boilers typically connected to water-radiators?.. I assume so based on the word "boiler".

There are heatpumps that are used to heat water so it would be a slot in replacement..

New comment by mrmlz in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

mrmlz — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:31:59 +0000

Sure i can join you on the barricade, but i still want to function in a society :(

New comment by mrmlz in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

mrmlz — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:56:38 +0000

I loved my N9. But i'm somewhat hesitant on preordering that one. I need wireless charging.. And i still dont really get if Android-apps actually work or not, i.e. swedish Bank-Id/Swish etc.

New comment by mrmlz in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

mrmlz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:29:36 +0000

You should probably figure out why - unless you are ok with nobody liking you. If _everyone_ finds you annoying or difficult being around, you most like are annoying and difficult to deal with.

How you go about figuring what bugs people is perhaps the hard part.

New comment by mrmlz in "Being poor vs. being broke"

mrmlz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:00:07 +0000

Way to dismiss his life achievement as "being lucky"

New comment by mrmlz in "How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking"

mrmlz — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:02:40 +0000

The number is not what is relevant in his comment.