More like short them. This is going to be devastating for their business. I could see them losing tons of customers.

Was this written by Windows 11?

Everyone else has described the complications that a Mac mini would have. So why not consider something else? Lenovo, HP, and Dell make 1l ultra small form factor PCs and they’re pretty cheap on eBay. They’re also low power. Search for Tiny Mini Micro to find information.

I have three Lenovo Thinkcentre machines - two with 32gb RAM and one with 64gb RAM - running my Proxmox VE cluster. Highly recommend using those small machines instead of a Mac mini.

Why are those patch cables so long?!

I have a 10" width rack cabinet where my Proxmox cluster (three mini Lenovo Thinkcentre) lives. I’m currently designing a 10" mount to hold an old phone so that I can see my server monitoring/status through the glass of the door.

3D printing is great for stuff like that.

If purchasing something doesn’t mean you own it, then piracy isn’t theft.

Just out of curiosity, what drive configuration are you running?

Exactly. This is a terrible idea. I’m fairly certain that anyone caught doing this would be immediately fired at some companies.

Risking sounding like a broken record, I always suggest Tiny/Mini/Micro 1L form factor office PCs. Lenovo, Dell, and HP all create ultra small office PCs that make great low power servers. A Pi will use 5-9w at idle, while these PCs will use 11-13w idle. They also use more standard components such as NVME drives, 2.5" drives, and replaceable RAM. Easy to find under $100 USD used, I’m sure you can find them under 100 euro.

That’s a lot of money for what you’re getting there. I highly recommend used 1L office PCs, like the Lenovo ThinkCentre tiny machines. They’re regularly under $100 USD on eBay. Although if you prefer something new that’s totally understandable.

You can leave Epic on Windows please.

I don’t really have any automated manga download processes. I use Neko on my phone and tablet to download new chapters from Mangadex automatically. My manga library in Kavita is all completed series that I grab via torrents.

I run Kavita on my TrueNAS Scale setup. I can’t really recommend it, but there’s not a lot of similar manga/comic self hosting servers out there.

It doesn’t have a feature to auto download manga though. It also won’t organize manga based on folder structure - it only goes by file name, which annoys me to no end since I have my library organized for use with Tachiyomi on my phone/tablet.

I think it’s a bleedover from car culture - you keep your fun car in the garage and have a second car that you’re okay with driving daily. Especially so during winter.

Just a quick list.

• Apple actively makes device designs more difficult to repair. Everything is either glued or soldered together.
• They purposely make it more difficult to get tools and parts. Some tools are proprietary.
• Performance per dollar is terrible. The better, slightly more repairable machines cost a ton of money. Spend the same amount of money on a regular PC and you would have a beast of a machine.
• Apple sues and/or attacks anyone who tries to help people repair their devices.
• They purposely push out OS changes that make older devices less usable.

That’s not even including the treatment of employees or condition of the factories where Apple devices are built. I don’t know as much about that. But I can definitely comment on the above after managing iPads and Macbooks in a corporate environment.

Oh no, guess the people using Windows at home will have to just settle for using the easily found Microsoft Activation Scripts!

What parts did you upgrade? I’d start swapping them with the original parts one at a time with testing after swapping a part in.

Also - for these SFF Dells, they should have the standard Dell power button trouble flashes. I don’t have the link right now but there is a guide on Dell’s website to diagnose issues just off how the power button blinks.

I bought four of those drives from SPD to put in my NAS. After testing and burn in, one of them started failing tests. SPD had me send the failing drive in and they sent me a new one. Otherwise these have been great so far.

Editing this 10 days later, having two more drives fail SMART tests after a sudden sharp increase in offline uncorrectable sectors. I’m trying to go through the RMA process now. I can no longer recommend this unless you’re okay playing the RMA game until you get reliable drives. Backblaze tested the exact Seagate drives I’m using and only had a 0.60% annual failure rate. The fact that I’m seeing 3 out of 4 drives I’ve bought showing signs of failure makes me think something is wrong with the ones they’re selling.

I’ve seen that before, but when I proposed that as a solution it was shot down due to being unsupported by Microsoft. I just wish they had an OEM option to skip it.

It depends on the version, but yes, it does. It’s especially a problem on prebuilt machines and laptops. It is incredibly annoying to work with in a corporate environment. Our helpdesk tech comes to me with issues related to this probably three times a week. I gave up with work arounds and we just have a throwaway Microsoft account now.