Oh, good. We'll finally stop having to remember our first pet's name. Obligatory [xkcd: Password Strength](https://xkcd.com/936/)

Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Your suggested method is good for "black box" testing, but won't separate application vs kernel power usage, for example. If one really wants to measure the application's power usage, one should separate out the kernel's power usage, to say nothing of other applications running simultaneously. That's why I suggested a realtime system would give better results. You don't really have much in the way of context switches and other kernel overhead, or if you do, you can absolutely control it. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Definitely not in his office then.

Thanks for the smiley Kent, that's still a non answer though. Blink twice if you are under a NDA. I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

As an architect I would like to think like an Amoeba for now, trying to solve that complex amoeba bug :laugh: ===================================================== The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence