I know that AI is definitely one of those things that people either embrace or absolutely loath. I’ve joined on team embrace, and use it for quite a lot of random projects. Anything from create stupid images, fixing the code on my websites, helping re-write an email to sound less passive aggressive, writing up Powershell scripts, etc. Lately I’ve dived into some of the more useful things it can do like vibe coding, since I’ve heard all the kids raving about it. I was impressed at how quickly it can spit out something useful. For this project, I prompted ChatGPT “Create me an 808-ish style drum machine, in HTML5, and have it contained to 1 page/file”. And the results were rather impressive. Check it out.

My personal opinion regarding AI, I don’t really care if people are using. So long as it’s being disclosed. If you’re trying to sell AI generated art without notifying everyone that it is AI, that’s just rude. I understand there is a huge division with artists and AI, and personally the people who are selling their art copying Disney IPs, etc, are kind of hypocrites for being mad at AI. “It’s just ripping off other peoples art!” and you’re not? But anyways, here we are. 

The things that I create with it, I could probably do on my own if I put my mind to it. Or had the time. But it’s not like I’m going to pay some artist to make me an image of a unicorn shitting ice cream cones. As far as the resources data centers are using, well this page is hosted in one of those. All of the internet is. And it’s growing constantly. 

If you’ve noticed your web browser slowing down or acting weird in the background on Windows 11, you’re not imagining it. Microsoft’s Efficiency Mode (part of Power Throttling / EcoQoS) can kick in for apps like Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, throttling CPU usage and lowering priority to save power, especially when the browser is minimized or idle. This can lead to sluggish video playback, etc. Especially when you have multiple videos playing for education purposes. 

Here’s what I did:

1. Wrote a PowerShell script that bumps browser processes to High Priority
2. Wrapped it in a VBScript so it runs completely hidden
3. Scheduled it with Task Scheduler to run every 10 minutes

Update – June 29th, 2025 – I removed the link with the scripts because Google is listing my site as being Dangerous. I’ll update this when I have a resolution

To use:

1. Drop the 3 files, .xml, .ps1 and .vbs in C:\Scripts\
2. Import the .xml into Task Scheduler
3. That’s it. You’re done. 

You can change the settings in Task Scheduler for how often you’d like it to run. I figured every 10 minutes is a good starting point. Hopefully one day Microsoft will let us just disable this feature no one asked for. But until then, this method will work.