“Freedom of exclusively my speech”

I didn’t say Ubuntu isn’t used, but it’s by far not as clear cut as the previous comment made it look.

I wouldn’t say that.

RHEL/Centos/Alma and their derivates are very popular in enterprise contexts. Unless you count docker images based on Debian, I’ve literally never seen a non-RPM based distro being used by the companies I worked for.

Redhat isn’t worth billions without a reason.

I don’t use mint, but the serenity of a reliable platform to work on by far outweighs the boringness of the system.

My computer is a tool, not a hobby (anymore).

I’m not arguing against the need, I’m saying that the economic incentives for private investors are not really great.

The thermos approach is unfortunately almost the best we currently have, because every storage solution would have to pay taxes twice, once for buying, once for selling. Not VAT, but Stromsteuer.

Also, these dips don’t occur that often, are usually not very long and it’s kind of a reverse game of chicken. The more storage we have, the less profitable each one gets. All that makes it rather unattractive to install grid scale plants.

Yet, you spout innuendos as if you’re knowing what you’re talking about.

Fluxbox, obviously. \s

How many men are killed because they are men?

The violence men face is different from the one women face.

You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.

Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.

If you oppose “killing innocent civilians” and “fighting back”, then that implies that the guys “fighting back” have a good reason and are therefore the good guys.

Let’s be real here, the Houthi would have shot at Israel ten years ago, if they had the means. Gaza is just a justification for them. Again, they want to kill all jews. Not just Israel, all jews.

As bad as the IDF is behaving right now, sinking civilian cargo ships isn’t exactly a good strategy for protesting these dead civilians.

And shooting aimlessly at Israeli citizens also doesn’t help.

The flag of the houthi literally says “death to the Jews, death to America”, if those guys are the ones you’re rooting for…

Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.

Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.

GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.

Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.

The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.

And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?

My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.

I’m still convinced Electron only exists because there’s a huge surplus of mediocre web devs.

Electron solves hardly any problem that QT, GTK or all those other UI frameworks didn’t already solve 20 years ago. But for QT you need at least a few developers with passing knowledge of something other than js and css. And those guys are expensive.

OR, it is a huge conspiracy by Micron et al to increase demand for memory modules.

Yeah, you want to sniff nix first before you mainline nixos.