Some enterprise grade stuff still use BIOS. But I haven’t messed with one for over 6 years

I’m a network engineer, I always have a flashlight on me since I have to get into crawl ways to chase cables

I personally have an Acebeam E70 Mini because it’s high CRI and non-PWM.

PiHole and then Minecraft actually all through CLI.

Imagine my shock once I found out about screen and SSH. I didn’t need to walk back and forth between my computer and the server.

I didn’t touch a GUI for about 4 years.

I love this copy pasta

Cries in SFFPCs

Hard to tame a 5800X3D in a 8L case

Ethernet is a layer 1/2 standard, so it is technically it’s anything covered under IEEE 802.3.

But for most folks Ethernet is a copper patch cable and a copper port.

My comment was more directed at the unholy costs of copper SFPs and their heat when dealing with multigig setups.

I run fiber because fiber SFPs are cheaper than copper lol.

But if it doesn’t move in my house, it’s wired.

I use a framework for my laptop. I brought my own ram and storage.

That’s also assuming they used proper salts and a strong hashing algorithm.

Also MITM and or phishing attacks are not super common but can also depreciate your common password very quickly.

Always layered defense. If it’s not 1 thing, it could be another.

Unique passwords are just one facet on a multi-layered security defense.

I have horrible errors in my ZFS pools until I did a memtest. Fixing my ram eliminated all the errors.

Adguard is a little more refined imho.

Ran pinhole for ages and used scripts to update it.

Adguard, everything is built into the UI. Although custom rules for certain clients are a little hard in Adguard.

Now I have a dual system.

Adguard is a secondary and DoH as my primary. That way I have DNS services regardless of if the internet is up or down.

Backblaze.

9/month for unlimited storage.

I’m at 4tb stored.

We have a bee hotel and it’s so damn cute seeing these little solitary bees filling up the holes.

We probably have 20-30 nests.

Zeal Zilent v2 62g are like MX Browns but better.

Brown’s tactile is a little too little for me. Wanted blue’s tactile but with the silent of browns. So I went Zilents.

Pfft, real audiophiles will use a DAC or a DAP

Although I’m not willing to carry something additional to my phone and earbuds to listen to music.

Post your last 100 transactions?

This is why I bought framework this time around. Hopefully they exist 5-10 years down the line.

To save money, they can go the derelict laptop route.

If they get a low tdp board, maybe like an old laptop without a battery, the power difference isn’t going to be too much. Pi can pull 9W at full tilt. And an old Ultrabook with it’s monitor tuned off or unplugged can probably pull 35-45W at full tilt.

So 45W - 9W = 36W

36w x 24hr x 356 = 315,360Wh

315.36kWh x 0.25 cents = 78.84 a year

But that’s assuming everything is running at full speed. For something running 24/7, we can probably estimate idle state is more common. Laptops can idle about 3-4W a pi4 is also idle around 3-4W.

So 90% at 4W and 10% at 45W for the laptop

And 90% at 4W and 10% at 9W for the pi

Gives us 8.1W average for the laptop

And 4.5W for the pi

Giving us a total difference of 31.536kWh. or 7.88 additional a year.

This is also assuming the laptop has the same computational power as the pi, which isn’t true, so the laptop will end up finishing tasks faster than the pi and use more power for a shorter amount of time.

Stardew Valley

Terraria

Yeah me as well.

Had a cheap server that had 2 x 2tb for stuff I wanted to access while away

Then turned into 3 x 8tb for redundancy and ZFS

Then turned into 2 x 3 x 20tb for dual redundancy and ZFS1

Now I want to upgrade to ECC memory and the cpu, Mobo, and ram will likely cost over $1k.

Plus with more hardware it will use more power. I’m at 125w normal usage. That costs me $284 a year to run my stack.