• xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Greetings fellow time-traveler. What model of entropy-reversing computer fan do you use?

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          Why reversing enthropy? I just throw the computer in the trash when it burns off so I can buy a new one every month. Mass consumer society is so greaaat.

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    And by convention, all vehicles in video games are electric.

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    More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.

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      Not necessarily, on OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs) a light that’s turned off is using less power because the pixels the lamp is displayed on (and the ones around it too) are dimmer.

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        YELLS IN GPU VERTEX PIPELINE

        that consumes electricity. ever think about the poor gpu? about how your words hurt its feelings?

        jokes aside the power to process a few hundred vertices every frame is insignificant

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        And traditional LCDs with a backlight use more power for darkness. The LCD is transparent by default and turns opaque/black when a voltage is applied.

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        Actually, the pixels go completely black and do not consume any electricity at all in that state.

        You might be thinking of early OLEDs, which had to stay on at all times to prevent blur/smearing. But panel manufacturers solved that problem a few years ago. Don’t remember exactly when the change happened, but I remember first seeing true black OLEDs sometime around 2017/2018.

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          When a lamp turns off it doesn’t become a black hole. Previous commenter was correct, though I appreciate your info about OLED

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          The light doesn’t become true black, it’s dark but not a complete nothingness. So yes, it’ll still consume power.

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      Highly depends on the rendering engine and if you’re looking at it, as it could unrender if you look away, meaning less energy used.

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    Did you know that if we took all the rhinos left on the planet, put them in a rocket ship and launched it towards the sun, the would travel 91.511 million mi, and die along the way?

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      Akshually we currently have no rocket with enough power to launch that much mass towards the Sun. People always assume because the Sun has a lot of gravity, stuff moves toward it automatically. But when launching from Earth that’s not the case. Earth is in orbit around the Sun, in order to get to the Sun you need to lose all that energy. Since rhino’s are heavy af you’d need a mighty rocket indeed.

      We could with some effort maybe launch one small rhino, say 600-700kg towards the Sun. And it requires some fancy ass orbital mechanics. So it would travel way more than 91.511 million miles before ending up in the Sun. This rhino would probably not survive the launch, which is just as well given its destination and travel time.

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    Did you know that characters in video games have an electrical current to keep them alive just like real people?

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    If the game is demanding enough they also consume the same amount of electricity, maybe even more.