it's very sad how hard it is to have a gaming PC that while it's not gaming has reasonable wattage for a server instead of passively using a shitton thanks to background process and etc wanting to use as much as they can
I wish dual processor was better supported because I'd love to offload to a power sipping one when not doing high demand things, but even stuff with efficiency cores* is bad with this until a looooot of software changes
* it's actually kinda impossible to figure out power drain, especially per process power drain, from the OS. Somehow. So I don't actually know how much of this is the processes wanting more vs just not supporting, etc. it's very frustrating. You can't just go by process cpu % because low cpu use in the process may be using large amounts of power somewhere else in the OS, or in an egregious case recently, logging every line with echo logline >> logfile when you're getting thousands a second which was causing the ssd to use way more than normal.
