Stop complaining and send patches instead.

23 years after the first x64 CPU rolled off the assembly lines, Linux is still supporting it.

That’s still a 5W difference.

I have other devices like a TV that require 1-2W when they are in standby/shut off.

OP’s number is way to low. The power supplys conversion loss itself will already be a few watts.

Ok so I don’t quite understand why self hosting makes the situation better:

Turns out once you’ve played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can’t use more than 2 cores

Ok so you will have the same problem when hosting it on a dedicated server…

Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD

Are you telling me that the old HP SFF has more performance than your wife’s PC?

I also don’t quite understand what using a dedicated server has to do with FPS because server calculations should usually not impact this expect when the game’s code is utter garbage and it performs server calculations on the rendering thread…

I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.

Let’s assume that server somehow requires 1kWh per day (which is quite a lot). That would be around 30ct per day here in Europe which is like $10 a month. So not sure if your server was constantly running at 200W or your power plugs are coated with gold…

That’s what you see further to the back by the wall (50€ used, Fritz!Box 7510). Unfortunately, it only comes with one (1!!!) singular LAN port, so I had to buy a switch for 5 LAN ports in total (another 12€) which is sufficient for all the devices we use at home.

7510 is an extremely bad router, it doesn’t even have 5Ghz WiFi which is like standard for 10 years now. The router is your core access to the internet. Saving money in this place is definitely the wrong choice. You could have gotten a used 7520/7530 (has 4x LAN and proper 5 GhZ WiFi) for like 10€ more and wouldn’t require the 12€ switch…

You should maybe do more research before doing stuff in the future…

Ok not sure how such a post got so many upvotes…

She has not really much to do with open source or at least that’s not verifiable anywhere:

• no recent activity on GitHub
• A total of 5 commits on Codeberg… about designing an USB stick

Also she was active on Mastodon 3 days ago.

This person most likely is spontaneously disconnected from the net. Maybe the internet is down at her location because lightning fried the router, maybe she fell down the stairs and is in hospital, maybe she’s on vacation or - after having read through the about site - got some mental help, because not blocking and posting about people that send you creepy text messages to give them a wider platform is itself weird…

Who knows?

But starting a search on all social media will likely not bring them back either.

Maybe contact their family or other friends or visit them, I think that would be a lot more productive.