And why?

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    I’m actually continuously running github actions that I don’t need running, just because I can, and because it uses up their resources.

    That’s something I really like about Ublue: they use Github actions, so if you build a custom image, you’re using Github’s processing power for it. So, go do that. Make hundreds. Bleed Microsoft dry.

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      3 months ago

      wasting energy to somehow stick it to the man?

      Exhibit 56845 why humanity is fucking doomed.

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        I actually forgot the /s. And I guess I wasn’t clear enough. This is less than a drop in the pool for them. An image build that takes them around 15 mins including setting up the VM for the build, takes me around the same time on a machine with a 6-core Ryzen 5 at 2.375GHz, with 8GB RAM. So because they’re running it on their high end hardware and it still takes that long, they aren’t allocating that many resources to the VM, meaning that it costs them basically nothing.

        TLDR: If any of this was a cost that had any significance to their bottom line, it would have been restricted and/or monetised.

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          It’s obviously trivial energy waste in the big picture, but it’s 100% waste if you don’t need it. Like turning on lights in empty rooms.