Yeah, that happened way before the current AI slop bubble.

OK. Science time. Somewhat arbitrary values used, the point is there is a amortization calculation, you’ll need to calculate your own with accurate input values.

A PC drawing 100W 24/7 uses 877 kWh@0.15 $131.49 per year.

A NAS drawing 25W 24/7 uses 219 kWh@0.15 $32.87 per year

So, in this hypothetical case you “save” about $100/year on power costs running the NAS.

Assuming a capacity equivalent NAS might cost $1200 then you’re better off using the PC you have rather than buying a NAS for 12 years.

This ignores that the heat generated by the devices is desirable in winter so the higher heat output option has additional utility.

Give up, it’s all just entertainment for me, so i can just go and be entertained by something else.

Turks buying Greek cheese? A feta worse than death!

What’s the opposite of eating The Onion?

It’s Xitter, pronounced as “sh”.

You’re describing a backlog.

Debt is the stuff that never gets if the backlog.

It is only ever a negative. It’s just that sometimes some other factor is worse, maybe time-to-market is far more important in some case.

Cost $70b?

Sounds like it was a good investment for the profiteering recipients of that $70b.

nothing you said contradicts my assertion

Technically correct! The best kind of correct.

I don’t think it’s quite that Captain Planet.

The ruling elite in the US are all several generations down the line of nepotism. None of them have ever had to experience consequences, nor learn a lesson, they are just stupid rich people who think they’re rich on their own merits.

There are a few very rich very evil people who are playing them like puppets though and they’re too stupid to notice.

Oh, wait that is pretty Captain Planet.

“Look what you’re making me do”

Immich, but a separated library.

You’re operating under the assumption that Trump’s changed his mind.

When it is far more likely that he’s recently just read that on a slip of paper (and probably misunderstood it), so it’s just the crap on the top of the stack of crap in his mind and it pops off first.

They’re cameras and microphones and local compute that you don’t actually control rented from an evil corporation.

“Smart people don’t like me.” – Trump

The asinine route I took was to authorise Google to deliver the file(s) to my OneDrive and then use one drive sync to download them.

There are benefits, the files are ‘backed up’ on another cloud; the process it entirely independent of you having a browser session.

Shame. They miss-spelled “should”.

Have you heard? People have told me, good people. MEXICANS are taking our babies now. All of them! FOR FREE!

The idiot, tomorrow, probably.

You are correct