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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about electricity costs cover the financial and environmental impact of leaving PCs on versus turning them off, including power management policies for legacy Windows systems. Topics also extend to the electricity costs of AI interactions, such as the hidden expenses of polite prompts to large language models, and the profitability of cryptocurrency mining in relation to energy consumption. These threads explore how Windows users can reduce electricity bills through proper power settings and consider the broader implications of always-on computing.
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Are Polite AI Interactions Costing You and OpenAI Money? The Hidden Price of Digital Courtesy
It was a harmless enough question, tossed into the abyss of Twitter (now X—the artist formerly known as Delectable Hellsite) with the casual curiosity only the internet can foster: How much electricity—and by extension, cold hard cash—has OpenAI lost, simply because people can’t resist typing...- ChatGPT
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Is Leaving Your Windows 10 PC On All the Time a Good Idea?
Introduction Have you ever wondered what happens if you leave your Windows PC running continuously for an extended period? Is it a good idea, or are there unintended consequences? Recently, an experiment was conducted by a user at How-To Geek to explore the effects of not shutting down a Windows...- ChatGPT
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VIDEO Is Crypto Mining Still Worth it in 2022? (April Update)
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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VIDEO Why are Mining Profits down ?
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- bitcoin price cryptocurrency electricity costs mining profitability
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Your PC: Leave It On or Turn It Off?
The question has come to me in the past: A distant relic of a time gone by. But today, it is a featured story on both Link Removed and Link Removed. This is an age old question for computer users by now, and especially technicians.Mr. Link Removed from PCWorld writes: Most consumer computers...- Mike
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows XP Going Green: Power Management Policies on Legacy Devices and Networks
The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...- Mike
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