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What a silly outfit. It kinda looks like some sort of Christmas decor + dunce cap

Why sad?

People are still mining with GPUs? I'm kinda surprised that's still profitable

I just found my order confirmation email. Mine is model FW4C (now superseded by the V1410). Purchased almost two years ago.

I'm very satisfied with mine. Nearly 100% uptime, except for occasional reboots after major system updates.

Sure! It's completely solid-state; no fans or other moving parts. The case is designed to dissipate the heat. The CPU is some low-power Intel Pentium. I don't remember exactly which model.

I ordered a pre-built one from Protectli because I needed it fast, but you can save quite a bit if you prefer to build one. These little motherboards and cases can be found pretty easily online.

I went with a dedicated mini PC with one of those motherboards that are designed for building a network appliance. It has been running very smoothly for a few years, and I just log in occasionally to run system updates.

I want my network and Internet connection to continue working, regardless of my tinkering with home server stuff.

And eventually someone adds "our wife"

Maybe a few *arr services configured in a docker-compose file might be appealing to him 🙂

Ahh you're right. I totally overlooked that 🤦🏻‍♂️ KDE's not my daily driver

home server

I acknowledge that this is a silly question, but what does a Windows home server do? I'm sure there are many possibilities, but most of my server experience has been Linux-based, so I'm just curious.

If I were to run Windows on my home server, I'd probably just end up running a lot of services in WSL out of habit 😆

If I had to guess, maybe they had a surplus of energy and needed some way to dissipate excess energy. I read the book years ago though, so I don't really remember.

I suppose so. Maybe the concept could work with other forms of electromagnetic radiation too, and visible light was just the one used in the book. Idk, I'm no physicist 🤷‍♂️