Wsl is just a VM and it can run graphical apps. I’ve never used it for games, but I’ve ran some intensive simulations through it that used my GPU and it worked fine so probably.

Is this the board? The VRM situation looks pretty dire, but I wouldn’t think that’d be an actual problem. Also why do you have C states disabled? That’s not going to be helping your VRM situation.

Also what does your CPU cooling situation look like? Do you have a tower cooler that blows air over the VRM, or water cooling that leaves the VRM baking? Also generally for best performance you’d want xmp/docp/whatever the other thing is turned on. It’s free performance if your RAM supports it.

Is it the 7900 xt or the 9070 xt? 7900 xt does have a beefy power draw. But AMD’s “Minimum PSU Recommendation” is 750W so 1000 should be plenty.

And the 9070 xt uses less than that.

What motherboard? The 5900x and 5950x are pretty power hungry CPUs and low end boards might not play well with them.

This is an ebook reader. You don’t need high refresh rate to read books. It’s a waste of power and money.

I tried this but it didn’t seem to help. Mostly because it only wants to use 5ghz. I think I tried doing a bunch of “fixes” so maybe I should just start fresh. This is on my testing machine that I don’t use regularly so only god knows what I’ve done to it.

Also did you do this on a laptop with S0 standby? How does that affect sleep?

They don’t even have to do that. Just don’t pack them in like sardines.

Smart watches.

This Fedora version was a year+ ago. Even on 7.0 wifi is unusable on my machines if I have 6ghz enabled.

Sure, but that doesn’t change that it’s regressed since that one version and still hasn’t been re fixed.

There’s still tons of devices where Linux doesn’t work properly with them.

My Intel wireless cards cannot maintain a 6ghz wireless connection for shit despite some of them being over 5 years old. And Intel. Latest stuff, older kernels, none work well. Oddly whatever version of Fedora I had worked the best. My wifi wasn’t unusable when 6ghz was an option. It only dropped to 5/2.4ghz once a minute instead of every 5-20 seconds.

With how much Philips charges for their stuff they better.

The first two don’t even exist yet. They’re crowdfunding campaigns.

On a machine with only 8 gigs of ram that 1 gig is very useful. 16gb+ not so much, but 8 gigs gives you about 4 gigs of useable ram before windows starts offloading stuff.

Use task scheduler and click the run as administrator option. Also make sure you have the option set to run hidden, or run whether logged in or not.

Pages with lazy-loaded images — half the time the screenshot fires before everything renders

Are you using waitUntil? You need to adjust what it’s waiting for. Networkidle2 works great for simple pages, but if there’s a lot of BS that never stops firing then it may never conder it loaded. I use domcontentloaded plus a hard coded delay.

Cookie consent banners blocking the actual content

Write a quick queryselector and have it click accept if it’s there.

Memory usage goes through the roof when I try to do more than ~50 pages in a batch

Not much you can do about that. Chrome just sucks. Any alternative is either going to use just as much ram, or not be representative of the real world. So you’re stuck with Chrome wearing different hats. Not using shitty hardware for it is amazing. We have some hosts that are almost 15 year old hardware and they’re painfully slow. But put on something modern with an ssd and it’s pretty fast. You just have to keep memory under control to keep it relatively cheap. You could probably buy an old laptop and run it as a server for about a years worth of decent VPS costs. As long as it’s got an ssd it’ll be fast enough for this.

“If it aint broke don’t fix it”

and there is a comparably steep commitment required to research CPUs, GPUs, storage, cooling, and RAM, and how their combination will affect performance and longevity

I mean those same things affect consoles too, you just don’t get a choice. Sony prioritized keeping the PS5 quiet so the CPU and GPU run pretty warm. If you add an SSD it’s just hot boxing itself in that awful enclosure. You can always just yolo it like you would when buying a console. Then if it’s bad on a PC you at least have the option to fix it.

And nothing of value was lost.

It’s not hard to remember the basics, but if you want to run some crazy encoding options/conversions then it’s annoying as hell. I made scripts for my most common options. But anything outside that and I can’t stand it.