Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"

The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7 release it's now re-identified itself as the "Energy Optimizer" instead...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-v0.0.7

[ayumu]

Zoomer naming.

They have to ruin everything.

[fong38]

Zoomer naming.

They have to ruin everything.

Might be time for a hard fork to restore the name to its prior glory. And only allow contributions from pensioners.

[skeevy420]

"Energy Optimizer (lpmd)"

The added (lpmd) is like when news articles write X, formerly known as Twitter. Good job, Intel. You dumbed the name down so much that even y'all thought it needed a Leon Addendum. (Perhaps that should have been a hint that's a bad name )

Energy Optimizer sounds like some function that a power conditioner, inverter, generator, battery backup, etc has.

[skeevy420]

Zoomer naming.

They have to ruin everything.

Not everything. They wear yoga pants in public.

[mxan]

Not everything. They wear yoga pants in public.

Yoga pants is the millennial thing

[skeevy420]

Yoga pants is the millennial thing

Honestly, it's all modified Boomer from the 60s and 70s. That's when skintight athletic clothing and mini-skirts started being worn outside of the gym and athletics settings as regular fashion. It's when freedom of fashion outweighed historical conventions of modesty. There's not a whole lot different between then and now outside of advancements in materials and color palate preferences.

[stormcrow]

Zoomer naming.

They have to ruin everything.

Who gives a damn how old the dork was that thought it up? Let's be a little less ageist. Microsoft and Intel both have a long legacy of awful branding. It's endemic to the tech sector. Few tech corporations bother to stick their heads out their cubicles long enough to figure out how to communicate with people outside. Have you paid attention to the disaster litany of names? Alphabet. Meta. X. Ultra. AMD's utter idiocy with its CPU numbering scheme that only ardent fanboys can keep up with. Ubuntu's dumb code names no one can remember which matches up to what numerical release. On and on.

[emansom]

I'd wish KDE and GNOME combined efforts into something akin to power-profiles-daemon. AMD and Intel could then contribute directly to that, instead of having different daemons and sysfs toggles per vendor.

[quaz0r]

Michael has fun with the language in these articles sometimes 🤣