Do it, just don’t play the games that don’t work on Linux. I switched 15 years ago and didn’t look back. There are so many games at this point why bother with the ones that only work on Windows?

I have been using rygel. I don’t need anything fancy, dump a few media folders onto any VLC player on the LAN.

So me on a Wednesday morning after a questionable amount of moonshine the night before?

Magnetic mouse?

How many people are the type that would be given that letter and are also able to understand it?

I post positive ways to avoid consumerism.

60w is like £120 a year, these costs add up to the point that low spec servers pretty much always cost more in energy than hardware. Of course it also depends on where you live and your energy rates.

You could buy a 20 year old server that is going to use 800w, or you could buy a mini PC that is probably more powerful and uses like 10-20w.

Then again, I used to live somewhere that energy was included in the rent so short of starting a bitcoin farm usage wouldn’t really get noticed too much. In that case it would make sense to just go cheap hardware.

Your energy is clearly a lot cheaper than mine then.

Oh I am not saying specifically get a raspberry pi, personally looking at a bee-link N150 mini PC. It isn’t even that much more expensive than the 16GB raspberry pi and as its x86 I can just run normal debian installs in proxmox.

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time - a server typically isn’t.

This is actually something that applies to cheap products too. Was in Asda a little while ago and saw 2 LED bulbs with the same lumen rating. Cheaper one used 3w more and you only saved £1. Running it for 8 hours a day for a year would cost double that saving in electricity. For a server you are looking at almost £2 per watt each year. Does that ewaste look so good to you now?

Some things are absolutely worth getting second hand, but you really should be careful considering the power cost as well.

Quick edit: If you don’t need it running 24/7, consider something like AWS too. I love selfhosting but if its not running much it might be cheaper to not bother buying hardware.

Does it need to?

But none of it is wrong is it? Just that incomplete.

Now makes me wonder what is the most recent mathematical discovery that is understandably useful to an average person.

TIL at least 46% of Americans can read.

I asked it how many Ts are in names of presidents since 2000. It said 4 and stated that “Obama” contains 1 T.

If by “powerful statement about consent” you mean bullshit marketing, sure.

Should shoot them with machineguns!

You think the billionaire owned press is free? Some smaller independents may deserve support but that isn’t major companies.

I am sure ChatGPT can make something up for you each day

Oh no… Not the major news outlets, how ever will we cope. Let them burn.

Just raid the medicine cabinet for seasoning. Don’t follow a recipe, go with vibes. Try that jar of cough syrup, a little rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizer should help with mouth feel, what was that pack of pills that you just knocked in? Oh well, just a happy little accident.