Great... Signal is imperfect.
Can you suggest a perfect alternative?
At this point I'm just happy my family have tolerated it to the point we're not using Facebook Messenger, Google chat (it whatever it's called this month) and WhatsApp.
The xmpp or whatever other convoluted alternative you're about to recommend is not something I'm going to get 20 or 30 family and friends to switch to.
Signal is imperfect... But not as bad as many other options.
Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you'd have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.
It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.
It was only beyond gig that you'd need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don't do it).
High quality cat 5e would have done the job.
Original cables must have been faulty.
This is verifiable in manufactures data sheets.
Efficiency at less than 20% and greater than 80% loads isn't great relative to in between those ends.
This is compounded by lower wattage PSUs being more limited with regard to features and benefits.
If you end up with a 650w PSU and your system idles at 80 watts for the bulk of a working day you spend long periods of time in this less efficient window.
We need to see some quality 300w to 600w designs come back onto the market.
From Chinese parts
That's what anti islanding is.
Prevents power from going into the grid when it's down.
Way I read it is it puts surplus into the grid to keep you elec bills down.
800 watts isn't exactly going to set an outlet on fire.
2 is fine.
I know where you're coming from, I use a closed notebook with external display sometimes.
I might need to be more specific. If the notebook is used as a typical notebook, and one closes it with the intent of putting it to sleep, once sleep has been reached an external mouse should not wake it.
However if you do toggle the power settings to allow the machine to function with the lid closed and/or machine docked then you do want to mouse to wake it keep awake the machine.
This used to be so much easier back in win 95,98,xp days.
There was a startup folder in the start menu and all you needed to do was drag what you wanted into it.
This is an example of something that got harder.
Had this issue for years over 2 machines.
One had some shit in the background the prevented standby.
Other was so simple it pissed me off.... .. the damn mouse jostling around in the laptop bag was walking it up.
I'm still going to point the finger at windows because 1) there should be a better tool for identifying what is keeping a system awake and 2) should be default for a mouse to not wake a portable machine who's lid is shut.
If it has anti islanding at least it's unlikely to be a shock hazard.
That said are there any other concerns I'm missing?
Cheap shitty knockoff reboots of a product are not newsworthy or even post worthy.
Is my opinion unpopular?
Even then you'd still want 100% with encoding running at a lower priority.