DarkSirrush

Didn’t tomb raider also have dinosaurs in a few games?

I am fully aware of that, but i have free PCs, and no money for buying brand new dedicated equipment, so its going in a VM or two.

At $0.50/kwh, I probably wouldn’t bother charging my car, because gas would be cheaper!

And yeah, I am not surprised how fast it adds up, though charging my Escape PHEV is still visibly my biggest power cost, at least when it isn’t -10C for weeks on end (my pellet stove doesn’t like staying lit above -15C, not that pellets are any cheaper than space heaters…).

Actually, this (and a few other comments) made me double check my rates, and wow, I don’t think I would ever want to live somewhere with a $0.50/kwh rate - mine is between $0.12 and $0.14 depending on if I am over the 133 kWh threshold or not.

I am trying to decide how to balance services, but running all 3 slightly less old computers will be less costly than the 2 very old computers I am currently running, due to them being on newer processor architecture.

I was definitely planning to have at least 2 running 24/7 though, specifically for having 2 pihole instances running, as well as having headscale and my tailscale exit node on separate devices (so that devices like my phone are still covered by the pihole).

That is a fair point on jellyfin needing the best CPU.

Was mostly asking about doing a swarm/cluster because i am unsure if there is a benefit, but i have the hardware, so if there is a benefit i wouldn’t mind setting it up.

On that note, what is recommended for a NAS OS?

I mean, the Vostros are way more power hungry than the new equipment, and I have been running those for almost 2 years now. Electricity cost is a fair though.

So definitely put jellyfin on the P330 if i am transcoding (I am currently not doing so i believe, as the vostros really can’t handle it).

What are the benefits of k8s over docker compose files?