Illuminating! Monitoring my PC's activity with an external widget
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I've learned a few things about how thoroughly Microsoft and Google use my GPU while I'm casually messing with my machine. - When highlighting a tool in the Windows Forms Toolbox - When scrolling in VS Code - When displaying GIFs in Chrome Even a little just typing this. If I stop typing it decreases. It's amazing how much it spikes too, given this is a 2080ti. Chrome seems to keep the GPU above idle any time it's the active window in any case. I like having my little hardware monitor widget. It's entirely useless fun. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've learned a few things about how thoroughly Microsoft and Google use my GPU while I'm casually messing with my machine. - When highlighting a tool in the Windows Forms Toolbox - When scrolling in VS Code - When displaying GIFs in Chrome Even a little just typing this. If I stop typing it decreases. It's amazing how much it spikes too, given this is a 2080ti. Chrome seems to keep the GPU above idle any time it's the active window in any case. I like having my little hardware monitor widget. It's entirely useless fun. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I used an LED strip (can't remember which one, it had 10 LEDs) and split the strip (virtually) into two segments, 5 LEDs each to show CPU utilization and memory utilization. Since the LEDs were capable of the full spectrum of color, I wrote an algorithm to take the scale of 0 to 100 and converted into green, yellow, and red, something like: green: 0-33% yellow: 33-66% red: 66-100% And the # of bars illuminated determined how much of the 33% in the associated range.
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It's entirely useless fun.
Yes, quite fun!
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I've learned a few things about how thoroughly Microsoft and Google use my GPU while I'm casually messing with my machine. - When highlighting a tool in the Windows Forms Toolbox - When scrolling in VS Code - When displaying GIFs in Chrome Even a little just typing this. If I stop typing it decreases. It's amazing how much it spikes too, given this is a 2080ti. Chrome seems to keep the GPU above idle any time it's the active window in any case. I like having my little hardware monitor widget. It's entirely useless fun. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Sounds neat! Reminds me that I still miss the little network monitor icon Windows 7 used to have in the taskbar. :((
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Sounds neat! Reminds me that I still miss the little network monitor icon Windows 7 used to have in the taskbar. :((
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I've learned a few things about how thoroughly Microsoft and Google use my GPU while I'm casually messing with my machine. - When highlighting a tool in the Windows Forms Toolbox - When scrolling in VS Code - When displaying GIFs in Chrome Even a little just typing this. If I stop typing it decreases. It's amazing how much it spikes too, given this is a 2080ti. Chrome seems to keep the GPU above idle any time it's the active window in any case. I like having my little hardware monitor widget. It's entirely useless fun. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
so, what is the external widget ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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so, what is the external widget ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
EspMon: A simple PC hardware monitor using a T-Display S3[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've learned a few things about how thoroughly Microsoft and Google use my GPU while I'm casually messing with my machine. - When highlighting a tool in the Windows Forms Toolbox - When scrolling in VS Code - When displaying GIFs in Chrome Even a little just typing this. If I stop typing it decreases. It's amazing how much it spikes too, given this is a 2080ti. Chrome seems to keep the GPU above idle any time it's the active window in any case. I like having my little hardware monitor widget. It's entirely useless fun. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
That's leeching electricity which I pay for. That no bueno, senor. Is there a way to turn the graphics card on bloody "off/non existent"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's leeching electricity which I pay for. That no bueno, senor. Is there a way to turn the graphics card on bloody "off/non existent"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Open up your case and pull it out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Open up your case and pull it out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.