I’m in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.
Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don’t worry, it’s a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).
After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I’m actively using it. It’s not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won’t be an issue.
Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.
i was about to send a screenshot, but i can’t reproduce it now. it freezes and stops responding to some or all input, and all the dock+appmenu icons are gone. its one of these or all symptoms, and i can usually reproduce it when coming back from sleep. logs say ‘broken pipe, error reading events from display’ i can update if it happens again.
I’m using the same generic ps2 driver for the touchpad. its an old alps glidepoint, i can get it to work perfectly with all features on windows 7 with the proper drivers, needless to say thats a bit unworkable.
on linux it works initially with multitouch scroll and everything, then gradually starts to behave like a wet touchscreen. ive tried different kernel versions, livebooted a couple different distros and tried a few very old solutions i found floating around, like using the synaptics driver for some reason. found it for cheap and replaced the hardware. nothing seems to do the trick.
edit: it did the thing, its usually functional enough for screenshots:
Is this a Thinkpad? And of so, is the BIOS s3 on “Linux” or “Windows and Linux”?
Also are you running Wayland? If so ot might be worth trying to log in with Xorg instead (bottom right when logging in).