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An important step towards optimizing energy consumption is knowing your actual consumption. My house was built during the oil crisis in the 1970s, and due to the lack of a natural gas connection, the builders decided to use electricity to do all of the heating (water and home heating). This is not unusual for this area of Germany, and it remains an appropriate solution in countries that depend highly on nuclear power.

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Building a homelab can be a fun way to entertain yourself while learning new concepts and experimenting with new technologies. Thanks to the popularity of single-board computers (SBCs), led by the Raspberry Pi, it is easier than ever to build a multi-computer lab right from the comfort of your home.

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No one would really consider systemd to be a troubleshooting tool, but when I encountered a problem on my webserver, my growing knowledge of systemd and some of its features helped me locate and circumvent the problem.

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EndeavourOS 2020.05.08 Released: A Friendlier Arch-Based Linux Distro  Fossbytes

Superpaper is an advanced wallapper app for Windows and Linux with unique features  Ghacks Technology News

Intel Ice Lake "0x78" Microcode Update Having Small But Measurable Performance Hits  Phoronix

Following new Intel Ice Lake CPU microcode being published on Friday without any change-log and not updating prior Intel CPU family microcodes, I've begun looking at the performance as this first Intel CPU microcode update for Linux users since November. From my initial weekend testing there does seem to be some small but measurable and consistent performance impairments for Ice Lake from this microcode upgrade.

Linus Torvalds did his usual Sunday release dance and shipped Linux 5.7-rc5 as the latest kernel test release...

It Will Take 3-10 Years for Linux to Replace Windows in China  Gizchina.com

While our benchmarks of Clang 10.0 have generally been favorable or at least no big regressions compared to LLVM/Clang 9.0, it seems the same can't be said for Rust when shifting their compiler base to LLVM 10.0...

EndeavourOS 2020.05.08 has been released as the latest monthly install media for this Arch-based Linux distribution born out of the ashes of the former Antergos Linux...

Arch-Based EndeavourOS Sees New Release With Faster Installation, i3 Improvements  Phoronix

The FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been sent out for their 11th time over the past few years to make use of this CPU instruction supported going back to Ivy Bridge hardware...

FSGSBASE Patches Sent Out An 11th Time For Boosting CPU Performance Back To Ivy Bridge  Phoronix

FSGSBASE Patches Sent Out An 11th Time For Boosting CPU Performance Back To Ivy Bridge  Phoronix

Intel on Friday quietly released new Intel CPU microcode files for Linux...

Intel Updates Microcode Binaries For Ice Lake On Linux  Phoronix

Patches are pending that can sharply speed-up mount times of large EXT4 file-systems...

EXT4 Seeing Work To Speed Up Mount Times For Large File-Systems  Phoronix

The tech sector is quietly having a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Open source developers are getting involved with many aspects of the fight against the coronavirus, using Python to visualize its spread and helping to repurpose data acquisition systems to perform contact tracing.

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