Power to the Pluggers and Players

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Ugh. What a mess!

I generally eyeball the power requirements for the individual parts and then add a few hundred watts to provide extra headroom for future upgrades and power hungry tasks that I may perform. For instance, 750W was recommended by the linked tool in the Reddit post but I went with a 1000W power supply. Definitely overkill for most tasks but it’s generally better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it 🙂

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Ever found the safety features on some power boards overkill? Here’s an example, but there was an easy solution this time. 🙂
When very young, was inspired by the different designs and implementations of power poles. Some of note in this country, Britain and notably, France. Nothing compared to these:

power lines shaped as animal sculptures supply electricity across austria

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More infrastructure should be designed as art forms. Civilization would look so much better if it weren’t covered in bland industrial displays. Just as an example, the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty could have cellular aerials on top. Streetlights could have a whimsical appearance, like sunflowers. Just make things look better!

I miss easily getting articles of whimsy like that. Fewer and fewer sites are posting that sort of thing these days and it makes me sad (not to mention the discovery problem) 🙁

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Bit of a song & dance with a bad socket today, Have to say Windows safe mode has come a long way since the clunky 640X480 days of yore. Most of the devices in Device Manager are marked as bricked, because as we know, it’s safe. 🙂

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Yuck. I was hooking up a lamp the other day and found that one of the two sockets in an outlet was bad so I’ll need to get that fixed at some point. Annoying when that happens. Fortunately, it was just a lamp and nothing important but it does mean I’m down a plug! 😛

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Took the opportunity of reviewing the new rig’s power consumption in generating the following report with the terminal command powercfg -energy:
https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/energy-report.html
If any settings in the report are adjudged by the system to be out of whack, user is prompted to correct them by running the deprecated power troubleshooter which isn’t available in the CP anymore. Never fear, it’s still in the hive, and the gui is revealed by running msdt.exe /id PowerDiagnostic.
Of note are the errors highlighted in red, USB Device not Entering Selective Suspend where good answers to that question are in short supply. As everything in this desktop is now working as intended, we infer that or Powercfg is either reading stale logs or running a dodgy event trace. Else it could be UEFI, system or other hub/controller/USB drivers not towing the line as per the horse’s mouth. No need for panic stations, demystification is at hand along with the promise of reverse.
There’s also another golden oldie, ASPM Disabled, Microsoft likes it and the Gigabyte B860M supports it up to L1.2, but it’s switched off by default because of potential system stability issues. Leave it and love it. 🙂
Another horrendous user error logged in the report is disabling the NVIDIA High Definition Audio in order to hear all dulcet tunes from the SB 1500 instead.
So, to enliven, inspirit and elongate the thread, would you be interested in sharing energy consumption on the System76?

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So powertop is what is used in Linux land but its report options are limited. Looking into it 🙂

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