Georgia still has among the lowest per-kWh tariffs in the country, at $0.086/kWh (0.0806 in winter). Plus $14/month service charge and 20% taxes & fees. Compare California at $0.40/kWh.

I got my Pi4 to be a media player - LibreElec or Kodi - for my old, not-smart TV. It plays my library of CDs&DVDs, frontend for OTA TV, and a variety of streaming services. Fanless, so it doesn’t distract from audio, low power, so I don’t mind leaving it on 24/7. You can configure it to listen to a USB IR receiver, but I control mine from phone via web. The actual media library/NAS and tvheaded run on an old desktop in another room.

My favorite thing is all the sensors you can hook up. Adafruit & Sparkfun have a wide array of sensors with breakout boards for simplicity and well documented python libraries. I started just logging temperature, humidity, then air quality, CO2 to my own database and web page, but eventually expanded to full HomeAssisstant system.

Pihole.

SATA is really convenient for larger storage, though. I keep my OS on nvmes, but I’ve got a couple of SATA drive and a hot swap bay for games, media, etc.

Tandoor: I ended up there because it has an API that I can access and cross-reference to my grocer (Kroger.com also has API) to get current pricing, calculate recipe costs, nutrient costs, or find what’s on special this week. It’s theoreticcally possible, but I haven’t sorted out how to integrate that directly into tandoor & its shopping lists.

A lot depends on how many users you expect and how much media you expect. For one or two users with that stack, transcoding media is really the only CPU load. If most of your media is already in your desired format, then that’s not a big deal.

My stack is pretty similar (no *arr, plus tvheadend, homeassistant and a kodi frontend) for two users and it sits near idle all day long. It runs on an N100 NAS system off Aliexpress with 16GB and will transcode 1080p to x264 at just about playback speed… System runs from a 100 GB nvme, with a couple half-full 4 TB WD Reds for data. 35-ish Watts, maybe an extra 5 when actively transcoding. Used to be ~150 USD,

If you want a lot of 4k content, then I’d definitely go with the GTX 1660.

Same. Eventually upgraded to a Pi 4, which doesn’t have any trouble with 1080p content. Pi 3’s onboard wifi was also problematic, and I had to run it over wired networking. Kept that for the Pi 4, so I don’t know if its wifi is any better.

The landscapers and cleaning staff are probably fine people.

Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn’t work “right” in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can’t directly compare “120 fps” on their specific linux setup with “120 fps” on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.

Honestly, don’t know about recent versions, either. I got sick of Intuit extorting me to upgrade every few years, so I’m frozen in 2012 (which is obviously useless for taxes). According to https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=120 Quickbooks 2004 & 2007 run ok.

Didn’t realize Quickbooks was so much more complicated than Quicken; kind of assumed it was just some kind of business-reskinned Quicken.

Can’t speak for Quickbooks, but Quicken works fine in WINE; you can set up a shell script in ~/Desktop to start it, so it works just like on Windows. Quicken (and 20 years of fin data) was one of the last things holding me to Windows, and getting it transferred to linux was hugely liberating.

I made a self-hosted forgejo repository of /etc. Commit messages aren’t always informative, and I’ve never actually gone back to the repository to figure something out, but it’s there, just in case. Me cosplaying a sysadmin.

It looks like he’s split out the individual USB wires, run the power to the USB port, and the signal wires to different places on the exposed board, maybe to force fast mode in the charger. Then just buried everything in silicone for insulation and to keep wires from pulling loose.

legit places…

My university, 23andMe, Transunion, Equifax, CapitalOne, United Healthcare…

Would you allow the converse: FoF to store data on your system? Data that could be CSAM - maybe encrypted, maybe not - ‘terrorism’ content, etc?

My problem with chains of trust is the Kevin Bacon problem. Sure, I trust my friends, but some of their friends can be a little sketchy. Plus, they don’t have any direct social contact with me, nor any personal consequences for betrayal. And nevermind the sketchy friends of the sketchy friends.

Federation has its uses, but trust is not one of them.

So, the US GDP is about $30T. Walmart revenue is about $700B, or 2.3% of GDP. Amazon, 2.1%. United Healthcare, 1.3%. Roughly one out of every 20 dollars spent in the US goes to Walmart or Amazon. That’s kind of terrifying.

In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals, this overpricing is almost entirely in tech stocks, and tech stocks are almost entirely owned by by the wealthiest 10%, even 1%. The tech billionaires have limited ability to divest themselves of their own overpriced companies and absolutely will lose money.

None of them are going bankrupt, they’ll all be just fine when the market recovers in a few years, because that’s the nature of capitalism. A bunch of peons, who convinced themselves that the bubble-value of their 401k meant it was safe to retire, will suffer, will have to go back to work - if you’re not an oligarch, losing money is painful.

Copyright line only mentions 2014, so I’m guessing it’s 10 years old and only BIOS.

Looks like California, USA

From the power draw, it looks like lemmy federation got hold of it around 16:30. As of 17:20, it’s still holding up.

I understand the Mastodon federation system can be very DDOS-ey on web sites, if you’re tempted to post it there.

Cool project.