> "Gathering from the other comments, some screensaver that shows a DOS prompt?"

Kinda worse. Some Mac application that acts as a screensaver and shows a DOS-prompt when idle...

Either way, I like the idea of getting people to install and configure fun apps which then know exactly when a PC is not in use.

Could be a useful swarm of devices...

This would be more trustworthy (and portable) as a website (Would have maybe also needed less tokens to produce)

Instead it's a somewhat sketchy app that by design happens to know exactly when my PC is not in use...

I'm not surprised that this doesn't change the CPU temp.

The important heat-exchange from the CPU is usually managed by a heatsink and a radial fan, with the grille of the casing designed as fan inlet/outlet.

Blowing/sucking additional air at the inlets doesn't affect the cooling surface of the heatsink, it just blows at the radial fan.

This may make sense if there's a weakness of the radial fan (that heat is building up at the heatsink which the original fan cannot remove).

But it's much more likely that the heat is not distributed well away from the CPU, either to the heatsink (thermal paste) or by the heatsink (weak heatsink design/material).

I'd look into ways to replace the radial fan or the thermal paste

Trying to find it, but my lack of Hungarian skill is not helping: Is there a website available to search by name or anything?

Your silence about ice cream is very telling...

unsolicited rant read and appreciated.

(suggestions to expand it will be made in a dedicated PR /s)

Great to read that there are still people out there sifting through the noise of Agents shooting PRs in all directions.

In the end you may have to recruit an AI agent to do the (pre) review, otherwise you're ending up being the only human driver on an automated highway (place mental image of Will Smith in I-Robot here)

Keep up the great work, it's appreciated!

I'm reminded of the poor human moderator of that German wiki that OpenAI agents hijacked as a message board, who spent hours reverting edits and removing slop pages created by the AI.

https://collusion.wiki/#the-agents-realize-the-site-owner-is...

> "I wonder where this leaves Varda?"

Not in a comforable position I'd say.

FWIW, the main supplier of iPod components in the era of the iPod nano was Samsung, and the main competitor for MP3 Players as well.

The big problem this time is probably that your supplier is the one with the reality-distortion field, not you...

There might be a huge potential for an AI which scrapes your (and my!) data and concludes what I can safely delete, saving the world tons of resources.

The millions of pictures I never got to sort, the multiple versions of a file that I wrote 2 years ago, etc.

But in the view of an AI-company that's probably a paradox. All this data is charged and could be used to learn more about me, it should never be deleted! Instead, some hole should be carved out of a mountain to store it, billing me every month!

Why use AI when duplicate finders have been a thing for decades?

For the pictures, I set up a batch script the one time that used exiftool to read all of my photo's exif data (for creation date), rename the file to that date / time, and put it in a year/month folder structure. Once that's normalized it was pretty straightforward to identify and delete duplicates (assuming the exif data on duplicates has the same date/time in it).

You have kids? /s

Duplicates are easy, that gets sorted quite fast. Picking 1-2 out of those 5 slightly different pictures of the same occasion is another task.

Actually, just the other day I thought of restoring my blog and found that I hadn't backed it up completely but because I had stored the backups as just `dd` images of drives, Claude looked in the free space on the drive image and got me back my backup! https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-11-01/Embarrassmen...

You never know when you might want it. I store this stuff religiously now haha! Backup to R2!

> There might be a huge potential for an AI which scrapes your (and my!) data and concludes what I can safely delete, saving the world tons of resources.

Thinking...

User has 15 pictures of his dead mother, deleting 14.

Saved 20 MB! :)

"I processed the 15 pictures, I can create as many new pictures of your dead mother as you want! Here's a picture of her skydiving with a Red Bull"

This escalated quickly

You know what would be more efficient?

Shipping your drives to Sam Altman. If everybody did that, he could then deduplicate the pictures of the same thing that multiple people took.

it's fascinating how the general direction became to never delete data. All the attempts of taking a photo, all the downloads of bank-statements, all the useless emails.

At some point in the future the amount of data being stored indiscriminately must consume such a huge amount of resources and cost, that it becomes a hidden fixed cost within a country's GDP, without any tangible benefit...

Historians actually would love this. Currently many historians try to reconstruct how life was like centuries ago from accidentally preserved artifacts. Future historians would have no trouble understanding how our daily life is like.

Our daily life, sure, but they are going to need a lot of computing power to find the bits that we were most proud of. I hope they have it.

don't we inflate this problem away? storage should get more abundant and cheaper and the old media looks comparitevly small compared to higher fidelity and higher definition formats that come later. so it doesn't matter if your gmail stores 20 years of useless emails.

> don't we inflate this problem away?

That continues to be the assumption, yes. Disregarding all the waste being created in the process.

What's fascinating is the fact that the production of TAPE sees a 5x boost. That's the format with the slowest retrieval rate, only making sense for long-term storage, usually 1+ years.

So is there really 5x more valuable data now, or is it just not economic to actually judge the need for preserving data...?

> without any tangible benefit...

Maybe for you. Regards, the < insert your favourite 3 letter agency here > /s

It's niche, yes. But also an incredibly high-precision mechanical device, designed for constant operation.

But the fact that -ALL- LTO drive-mechanisms are build by IBM maybe also doesn't help the pricing...

They were pretty expensive when other manufacturers were still in the business too, to be fair to IBM.

no reason to sell on lower margin here, the competition is pretty much only the cost to store it on HDDs