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- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 17 hours ago:
Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine…
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 17 hours ago:
My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost ‘free’. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 22 hours ago:
When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 ‘premium’ for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 1 day ago:
Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I’m very happy with the choice.
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 2 weeks ago:
Or master and slave boards…
- Comment on Network Switch 1 month ago:
I bought all the gear to do 10gbe but ultimately went back to 1gig simply because the power consumption. The switch alone used 20w at idle and each NIC burned 8w and I couldn’t justify it.
- Comment on PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently? 1 month ago:
So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.
- Comment on PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently? 1 month ago:
As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily…steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don’t seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. I’m just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.
- Comment on Mini PC for Jellyfin 1 month ago:
Most folks ignore laptops, but if you’re OK with USB storage or getting the special caddy to install the internal 2.5" drive you can get great deals on laptops with dedicated GPUs. This one idles around 4W witb the screen off.
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 3 months ago:
I use the onboard CPU of my ryzen 5600g for my jellyfin and nextcloud (memories app) duties and it works flawless.
- Comment on Private Security Camera 3 months ago:
May or may not be an option for you but buy any camera that supports rtsp, only allow that traffic from their network through and block everything else. Works fine for me and my Amcrest cameras. You could accomplish this with a pi and a USB network card and some basic iptables.
- Comment on btrfs drive replacement 3 months ago:
Been using it for over a year on two 8tb SSDs in strip and 14tb as mirror. This is on Debian and its flawless and wonderful. I run btrkbk hourly for snapshots, backups to remote locations and house keeping with 6 months of hourly snaps. Life is great.
- Comment on Low usage power saving recommendations request? 3 months ago:
I have the micro form factor I assume the same as you. Basically just a laptop in a small desktop case. I never installed tlp I’ll have to give that a shot but I’m pretty sure it’s optimized. I have two as servers and one as a router and I’d love to get it down to 12w total! I monitor the whole server rack with an iotawatt and all my servers and networking gear hovers around 75w idle.
- Comment on Low usage power saving recommendations request? 3 months ago:
I’d question that. I have three 3080 and they’re consistently about 8W each with one ssd and onboard graphics. I even went so far to splice three barrel jacks to a single 60w power supply that powers all three to avoid the losses of an additional 2 power supplies and this gets me the 8w idle power with Debian and throttling.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Scam Warning: MSI Exposes 600,000+ Warranty Records 4 months ago:
They exposed the intranet RMA portal used by MSI customer reps to review RMA claims, customer communications and all the personal info of the customers. The portal has a nifty button to dump the whole database to a CSV file going back to 2017.
- Comment on Is it better to rent a cheap/shitty place, or rent something suitable that you struggle to afford? 4 months ago:
I would argue living below your means is always better. Getting a cheap mortgage you can add an extra $100 or $200 a month to for the first five years makes a TREMENDOUS difference in how much interest you pay over the life of the mortgage and how soon you own it. The first five years of a mortgage are so important, all your payments go to interest. I’ve turned all my 30 mortgages into 15-20 year mortgages by over payments and it’s served me extremely well.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
I didn’t down vote you. I’m not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I’m just saying a lot are bad or don’t care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
You haven’t worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? www.chinaexpatsociety.com/…/the-chabuduo-mindset
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 4 months ago:
Found a taker, hopefully it goes to it’s forever home on Saturday!
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 4 months ago:
I got my first Gateway 2k Pentium pro in 1996 and upgraded from an Amiga 500 too! Wish I kept that computer but I did keep the CPU as a keepsake.
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 4 months ago:
Want to come get it? There is no market for this stuff and I’m on a time crunch. I need this stuff out fast. There are a bunch of speakers and decks.
- Submitted 4 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 22 comments
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 5 months ago:
Bought one, thank you!
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
Its not just the EV, its every layer of the supply chain. From the lithium they mine, the batteries they make out of it, the circuits and metal fabricating. Their government subsidies the electricity, tools, facilities, labor, etc. I work in the engineering field and I see bits and pieces of this everyday and have seen it for decades because I’m forced to source parts from China.
- Comment on Nextcloud appreciation post 6 months ago:
I hear ya but my instance is old (before i knew docker) and just works on the rails. I also tweak the heck out of it for performance so I deal with the annoyance once every two years. If it completely blows up I might roll it on docker.
- Comment on Nextcloud appreciation post 6 months ago:
I understand that everyone doesn’t always have a perfect experience but I’ve been using the same instance of nextcloud for over 8 years I just keep upgrading and migrating. It just works. Only issues I’ve had is when Debian withholds updating php for too long or when they finally do all the config files for php get fucked and I have to redo them all.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 6 months ago:
They also make wonderful axes and mauls I use to abuse trees and let all my anger out. A by product of this behavior is I also get to heat my home in the cold months.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 7 months ago:
Burning natural gas isn’t so awful but getting it out of the ground and to the place where is needs to be burned is always overlooked. It’s a gas, it wants to escape and much of the infrastructure leaks and so a great deal is lost before its used. I walk around Boston and no joke you just SMELL it all the time because the infrastructure is so old. Natural gas is also mostly methane which when leaked is 80 times more potent than CO2. Furthermore much natural gas needs to be transported on ships to be uses. To summarize there is no ‘greener’ fossil fuels it’s all to be avoided if possible.
- Comment on please help identifying this plant 8 months ago:
Stone fruit. Could be peach or plum or nectarines etc.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Sound dampening. Common feature on high trim cars or electric vehicles.
