A subscription-based phone.

Yea, no thanks.

My Pixel cost $120, it runs and does only what I want, no subscription required.

Correction: 1930’s

IBM documented Germany’s Holocaust

Until they define any general comms as “social media”

Guess what, my work doesn’t have network performance issues, and I don’t have network performance issues.

Guest networks at hotels are notoriously shitty, stop excusing it by creating a strawman.

What are these axes that aren’t even labelled? I have no idea what this is supposed to be showing since it’s obtuse as fuck

Or, hear me out, show some maturity and end the meeting at it’s end time.

Whoever is leading a meeting should be deferring things that can’t be resolved in the current time, and be wrapping up before the end time.

With 10 minutes left they should be reviewing “next steps”, including the things that couldn’t be covered, with communication of who will lead setting up meetings for those items.

I’m even more convinced now that Google is full on amateur hour with juvenile ideas like this.

Right?

What about all the “No cell phone use while movie is playing” they tout at the beginning. I even turn off my phone at the Alamo, because I don’t want rings, vibrations, etc, from people on the list that overrides Do Not Disturb

I resent being forced to use my phone for stuff like this. Or paying for parking.

Fuck, now I need to install a goddamn app to pay for parking at this garage the one fucking time I use it?

Fuck you, guess I’m not going to the Alamo after all since parking is now a huge fucking hassle. Guess I’ll just go home now and not spend $200 tonight.

We’ve saved thousands of dollars a year now because you bastards decided to do shit like this. Nope, not going to shows because you’ve made parking even more of a hassle.

I can’t even be bothered to see it, my friends can’t understand.

Like what could you possibly do in a second movie?

It’s so terribly transparent and unoriginal.

Rarely.

Most are crashes caused by someone fucking up.

Some are caused by things like medical issues - those would be accidents. Or a rock falling off a hillside into your car, tire blowout, etc.

I use a similar Dell Optiplex 7000 series.

It boots from the NVME, with an 8TB 3.5 disc for data, and a 500GB SD for my VMs. (Since spinning disks can idle much lower than SSD, getting my always-on VMs off the big drive lets it idle, with the SSD peak power being lower than the peak of spinning disk Adding the SSD increased net power slightly).

I use a splitter on the 12v power line for both of the drives. It’s fine.

This box only has an 80w power supply, and with both those drives hooked up it draws 20w at idle, and peaks at 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously.

The manuall tells you what you can do without voiding the warranty.

Edit: Given it’s age, I’d pull the CPU cooler and replace the paste. It’s likely hardened by now. Mine was randomly rebooting because the cpu would overheat. Replaced the thermal paste and its been rock solid since.

I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.

I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.

Someone’s never had X

Get in line!

Yep.

My Pi is about 8 watts. Really hard to beat.

The SFF started at 12w, but swapping out the data drive for a much larger one pushed it up 5w. And now with 2 VMs always running (PiHole and a Windows VM), it hovers at 20w.

The ancient NAS (Drobo) sits at about 15w.

The number one thing you can do, by orders of magnitude, is to start with power-friendly hardware.

For example, my previous server was an old gaming machine. It’s lowest idle power consumption was 80 watts. That was with running an OS that permitted heavy power reduction control, and enabling every power saving feature in the BIOS.

Compare that to my 2019 Dell Optiplex Small-Form-Factor desktop I’m running as a server. The power supply is rated for 80 watts, MAX. It idles at 20w, peaks at about 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously. This with an 8 TB enterprise drive for data.

So 1/4 the power draw when idle, where it spends perhaps 90%+ of its time. Even things like Resilio Sync and Syncthing don’t significantly raise CPU time.

Streaming with Jellyfin or Mediamonkey have nearly no CPU impact.

There’s nothing in heavier hardware you could tune to get down to 20w.

I love how that page adds snowfall over itself… Cluttered, distracting snowfall.

Irony is dead… Long live irony

Funny, I hear this all the time but never see it.

Then again, I use Windows Pro only. Never use Windows home. Paying for pro is worth it.

And don’t use One Drive. Turn that off from the start.

That’s not data redundancy - there’s still only one copy of your data.

Those are mitigations against loss of data due to loss of parity.

There’s still only ONE copy of your data.