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		tpmx on Jan 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called... How could it know? Edit: It would actually be nice if the PSU (and all of the various subsystems, like the GPU) were required to measure the power usage and report it to the OS. I'm sure one of those ATX pins could be repurposed to include signalling, somehow.

duskwuff on Jan 4, 2022 [–]

Most GPUs have power sensors that can be read from software. Even if they don't, they could make an estimate based on the model of the GPU.

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