Agree. SSDs do not consume 20W. First, most drives most of the time run on idle. SSDs just keep the controller running at minimum speed and HDDs just spin and have the head rarely moving. Second, at such "mostly idle" usage, consumer 2.5" SATA and M.2 SATA or NVME or PCIE drives would idle just around 2-3W - similar to 2.5" HDDs. Faster drives will have higher consumption on both ends - SSDs will power more memory and rotational drives will spin faster. But that's max 2x on idle. 20W would be a consumption for some rare and super fast SSDs which are probably used in much smaller quantities.

Yeah, I would agree that 1% difference can be just some kind of a variance error as well. Suppose that locations without PFAs simply had better air or more sun or better food, ...

Imagine a world in the future where you need to talk to support and you have 2 options: 1) talk to LLM for free or 2) talk to a human for $10 as an immediate CC charge.

Disabling C-States used to make CPU not go into lower power modes at Idle. I always used that on all of my Desktops and Servers in 2010-2018. Yet it did not seem to affect the maximum power consumption when the CPU is loaded 100%. Why would they all of a sudden ask not to disable that?

It's pretty good for writing functions that you can immediately test. I also have an odd statistics with it - a lot of times it generates code which doesn't work correctly. Which is rather unfortunate because often that code looks pretty good. But in some cases I was surprised with how it generated code better than I thought I would write. Overall, when I tried it to write code for me ~ 10 times total, I got 2 rock solid functions done correctly.

It seems every time MS tries to "dumb things down" they don't understand that developers actually need more power and as a result all these "new technologies" like WPF, UWP, Windows Phone end up dying... Yet the powerful core stuff like Win32 / WinForms still stays.

I just tried this on both Windows XP and Windows 10 VMs and both were fine just showing "invalid command.". No drive check on restart either.

There was another big one 15 years ago - NIMDA

Some of these great cumulative patches break things like Bluetooth.... Not a big deal for work, but definitely a problem for personal use.

That's why I use my 7440. Docks everywhere where I need 2 real monitors.

Agree to that. You can easily put nondell drives, memory, wifi cards. I did this for > 10 years. They only lick some things on servers. So one of my servers alays warns of nondell drives.

They seem to have bad keyboard layouts.

According to these rankings, the guy performed worse than 90% of his coworkers, then he was laid off and now he claims that it was a wrongful termination?

I realy wish old style layout of PgUp PgDn Home End Ins Del on the top right returns back