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Friend on Facebook just posted scoring

2023-03-14 01:05:02.507224+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Friend on Facebook just posted scoring a 100MHz 32MB 1996 era laptop to use as a heated cat perch, and CPU-wise that's a factor of like 100 (a few GHz times a couple of cores), RAM-wise a factor of a thousand, away from a modern basically usable laptop.

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#Comment Re: Friend on Facebook just posted scoring made: 2023-03-14 15:34:06.445736+01 by: brainopener

I've heard of cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null for generating heat involving cat, but this is ridiculous!

#Comment Re: Friend on Facebook just posted scoring made: 2023-03-14 17:50:01.20849+01 by: Dan Lyke

Giggle. A number of people have pointed out that a heating pad will cost less to operate...