So in a complete shock to everyone Europe is short on energy. Who could have guessed that depending on Russian gas, shutting down nuclear power plants and putting the absolute minimal effort possible into renewable energy would lead to energy shortages?! Bunch of god damn brain surgeons…
Well, maybe I don’t need the Xeon-D server running so that’s down. This means no Ceph which was kind of going to happen anyway. Interesting experiment. I’ve also switched from my 12-core AMD Ryzen to an Intel i3 NUC which struggles a bit to be honest. YouTube at 1080p leaves the CPU at 70% usage. At 720p it’s more like 55%.
2 cores and 2 threads per core, 16GB RAM and like 20GB of swap just in case. I use alacritty as a terminal emulator, btm for systems monitoring and of course Google Chrome as a web browser. Retroarch runs pretty well when the system isn’t too busy with other things. I’ve got Steam installed and presumably I’ll have to stick to 2D games like Shadowrun Returns, Huntdown, Guacamelee, Creeper World 3. I wonder how far I could run Factorio. That’s actually heavy purely at the simulation level. Steamworld Heist runs fine.
It will be interesting to see if Civ 4 will run. It’s a little bit of 3D and has to run with Proton/Wine so it’s not trivial. It should be noted that my screen is at 3440×1440 so that makes things a bit heavier. Assetto Corsa will of course have to run on the AMD Ryzen-workstation along with Subnautica and They Are Billions.
VLC runs just fine, I don’t have to run the snap version to avoid audio stuttering. I wonder how VS Code will run. I can run Python-development in Neovim but Node.js and Go wasn’t viable to develop like that.
Google Chrome isn’t easy on my CPU. YouTube at 720p60 and loading pages over at Hashicorp at the same time overpowers the system and makes YouTube downgrade to 480p. I’m using googler with w3m now and that works well. It’s really noticeable how resource intensive even simple static text pages are to load in a graphical browser, compared to a console-only browser with images disabled.