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  • I only really listen to them while driving 3+ hours.

    My mind needs some engagement or I’ll fall asleep.

    I listen to Dark Net Diaries because I’m interested in Cyber security, this American life because of the varied stories, wait wait don’t tell me because it’s light hearted, and car talk because of the nostalgia. I’m planning on grabbing a prairie home companion because my father listened to it, makes me think of him.

    That being said. Dark Net is becoming a little more dramatic than I’d like, but it’s still good content.











  • To save money, they can go the derelict laptop route.

    If they get a low tdp board, maybe like an old laptop without a battery, the power difference isn’t going to be too much. Pi can pull 9W at full tilt. And an old Ultrabook with it’s monitor tuned off or unplugged can probably pull 35-45W at full tilt.

    So 45W - 9W = 36W

    36w x 24hr x 356 = 315,360Wh

    315.36kWh x 0.25 cents = 78.84 a year

    But that’s assuming everything is running at full speed. For something running 24/7, we can probably estimate idle state is more common. Laptops can idle about 3-4W a pi4 is also idle around 3-4W.

    So 90% at 4W and 10% at 45W for the laptop

    And 90% at 4W and 10% at 9W for the pi

    Gives us 8.1W average for the laptop

    And 4.5W for the pi

    Giving us a total difference of 31.536kWh. or 7.88 additional a year.

    This is also assuming the laptop has the same computational power as the pi, which isn’t true, so the laptop will end up finishing tasks faster than the pi and use more power for a shorter amount of time.