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Combination of space and power consumption. They tend to use very little power and can fit anywhere, so I use one with four 2.5 gig NICs as an opnsense gateway, which can handle a 2.5 gig internet connection no problem while blocking ads and using squid, to which I just attach a switch and an old AP for wifi. It's fanless too, just a grill-style metal body to efficiently dissipate heat with no moving parts.

I'm thinking of finding a used one to make a Kodi box for family, that I can stick a shitload of storage on with a VPN to make it easy for them to pirate. My stepfather is dipping his toes into ganes so a nicer unit might be worthwhile - just an unassuming box that sits under the TV.

Even mainstream Dell Optiplexes are much tinier now. Have a client that needed a new PC after she managed to electrically damage her old one, it fits neatly under her monitor as a stand so she's got all her leg room back, she can easily reach the power button and USB ports, and it does so without taking up any more desk space. Many proper mini PC's can even mount to the back of a monitor.

Since normal office work no longer really needs faster computers per se, space savings and lower energy consumption have been taking priority. I even use SoC's like Raspberry Pi's to do shit like run my patched robovac, because they use so little power and the jobs it does are just so undemanding.

Why a mini pc? If you're after a cheaper PC, I highly advise buying a used one, like off eBay. There's very, very capable machines on there for like $200-300 with fuckimg RTX 3080's in them, from people who got into PC gaming during the pandemic that decided they don't have time for it anymore, or from cryptobros dumping old graphica cards now that crypto crashed, or from the steady stream of rich assholes who build a new PC for every generation of GPU and sell the old one.

If it must be a mini PC, you should expect about laptop level performance. They generally use laptop components and draw comparatively less power as a result. They're fine for office work and saving space, and you can get one that plays modem games, but you won't be getting a great value for the money in terms of game performance.

I usually would reserve a mini PC like that for HTPC use, running Kodi and serving up pirated content including emulated games and anything similarly modest, with newer games being more of a bonus.

also a reminder that you can download Vendetta and have client themes and mods on android. i like BetterTimestamps 'cause i can just type out my local time with backticks like `10:00pm` and it'lll post it to discord as a timestamp, converting it to the viewer's local time.

i'm using vencord on desktop but apparently shelter's supposed to be better long-term in terms of plugins not breaking, armcord will let you use either.

Not relying on legalistic justifications, for one. Legality is a constraint of whoever the host would be arrested by. It's not a substitute for having your own standards. You shouldn't need a legal justification to ban pedos or nazis, no matter where you live. We can't stop them from making their own online spaces, but we are not obligated to share our spaces with them.

It's not even remotely what I'm arguing.. I'm fine with their videos (aside from Contra as her videos are mostly just her shit takes) in the same way I'm fine with Dark Souls not having excerpts from Capital in the loading tips. I don't really see them as overproduced because they're edutainment about niche topics and I like listening to people do passionate infodumps. I am subscibed to enough interesting people that I do not need them to put out a video every week to not feel betrayed. I don't agree with the premise that the videos are bad, I think most are better (aside from Contra because I think her ideas are often bad).

My criticism is that all this nonsense about "lazy" artists is absolutely barking up the wrong tree when you cam simply go watch a different channel if you want theory so badly, and it results in this frankly petulant display of entitlement to whatever artist's entire creative output because they get money and say leftist shit sometimes, to the point where people here sound like conservatives complaining about striking writers.

It's such a myopic obsession with a handful of white people who got this label despite not partaking in the label's original purpose of producing specifically anarchist YouTube videos, everyone acts like "beaftube" as they knew it in 2018 is some huge fall from grace and just ignore literally everyone else that makes shit, or imposing some fucking brand on a human being so that if they ever make explicitly leftist content then they're obliged to make that the only art they ever put out - or even obliged to put out more art, period. There is just so much content of regular people figuring out video editors and putting out videos to explain perspectives that never get attention otherwise, "The Autistic Horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" is something you can just go watch right now, but people would rather complain about some YouTubers because they aren't making slop fast enough.

Capitalism has us brainwormed so we expect human beings to act like brands and get upset when they go "off-brand". "Breadtube" became these few white people's brand, they said most of what they could usefully say, and now people sit here unironically claiming that the problem with Contra is that she should make more political videos. Like motherfuckers where do you think her shit takes come from? If she recognized what she had to say on politics had a limit, respected that limit, and then focused on other topics while bringing up capitalism bad once in a while, that would have been better. People do not have an infinite amount of shit to say on a topic - hbomb figured that out and makes videos dissecting random and examining them in autistic detail, and that's why I love hbomb videos. If he started to shit out every fucking half-baked idea in his head about politics, that he didn't spend a long time thinking about in excruciating detail, he'd probably be known for shit takes too.

If at any point you needed any of these people to teach you what a feminine penis was, it is OK to move on to someone else, they do not need to be relevant to you forever. It's OK to read the damn theory yourself, but I'm not moralizing reading your assigned book, it's fine to go on Youtube and.see what other people think while you eat dinner. But it just makes people look ridiculous to act this upset about philosophytube or whoever taking too long to make a video and talk as though the revolution ever has or ever will hinge on their content output (and their content output alone).

Except a lot of video essays are fuckin' full length documentaries, with someome like Abigail Thorne doing full costumes and shit snd sometimes musical numbers.

You could certainly criticize Breadtube for moving away from educating audiences in radical politics amd failimg to direct people into actual organizing, but "I'm not getting enough raw slop" is an equally consumer brained criticism.

It's also basically looking just at Contra and other big names and ignoring anyone that isn't white as shit or who actually does ficus on radical politics - the people who actually, literally talk about the Conquest of Bread, and the various media they put out besides just YouTube. In particular there's a ton of podcasts that will cover the news or explain theory that might have one or more of these Youtube personalities on, as it seems it's a lot easier to disseminate that sort of thing when talking for four hours straight is considered a desirable quality while someone works their shift listening with s single esrbud.

Especially when I look at someone like Hbomb, I see someone with decent enough politics that's still primarily an srtist and entertainer - if "the plan" is to whine that the dude is making videos about how a guy lied about making the Roblox oof sound, I just don't know what people are expecting. Find something else and let them make their art, go sub to Zoey Baker or GDF or something if you're trying to learn shit and then promote that.

If anything, something like I Did A Thing occasionally bringing up politics and only once in a while condemning NATO's role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems better suited if people here are concerned about Breadtube's perceived loss of propaganda value. Make normie shit most of the time and then be vocal about your politics occasionally without expecting the entire brand to exclusively be politics.

But for Christ's sakes let's not start talking like fucking gamers crying about lazy game devs or whatever. Why the fuck is anyone demanding people grind their life away?

And the absurd thing is that we probably should use natural diamonds for jewelry, as it is a waste to synthesize such a common rock. If they weren't hoarded and aggressively marketed as something you have to have, they could just be a neat rock some people are into, there wouldn't be child slaves dying to dig them out of the ground.

If it's wedding ring, the marketing has been about how the purity of the diamond is symbolic of the purity of one's love. So picking an uglier, but purer, diamond then coild be about prioritizing love over beauty or whatever in that person's head.

So not necessarily exclusive to people wanting to present themselves as wealthy, that sort of emotional manipulation convinces broke people to blow their savings on a ring all the time.

No way has it stayed that white.

i know this is a bit but communism is when you berate yourself for enjoying things

There is Rock Pi and other SoC's that have that. That H3/H3+ looks like a good option for a low power server for self hosting.

It's the lack of hardware AV1 that concerns me, as well as droppong h.264. Raw CPU means it'll still handle the latter, but since streaming will be moving to AV1 it's kind of questionable whether this will be a reasonable media center.