I don’t think laptops are much of a concern - virtually every laptop on the planet spends 90% of it’s time plugged in.

All of mine have since the mid-90’s (back then that really shortened NiCd life).

Since they’ve gone lithium I’ve had probably 20 laptops (with multiple running since 2019 as hosts) and seen one spicy pillow - and that was on a year old machine.

My newest machines have charge limit on by default in the hardware. I assume they all do these days as it would reduce support/warranty calls.

Good to keep an eye on them because it can happen to any battery, I just don’t think it’s a huge concern.

Oh, I’m sorry. Lol.

Hyper-V is just so bad. Decided to run it for a while as a test, I couldn’t get back to ESXi fast enough, haha. And I come from the Enterprise world where Hyper-V is common.

My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.

Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it’s not Windows).

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Hahahahaha, well done

I’m shocked with what I’ve been able to do with an old Dell SFF desktop.

Upgraded to 48GB of ram it’s running ESXi hosting a couple Debian VMs, a DietPi VM, 3 Windows VMs, a massive data drive, idles under 20w and peaks at 80w when I’m doing video conversion.

At this point I’m shopping for some old mini PCs to run the VMs as independent servers because their idle power is so low.

8 watts… That’s RPi territory but with lots more actual horsepower when needed, in a useful package.

I love the concept of the Pi, but this stuff is so hard to compete with.

This was just posted to selfhosted, and does a great job showing what RPi is competing with.

It’s a tool for seeing actual idle wattage draw for a lot of mini-PCs.

Many are in the single-digit idle power - the RPi claim to fame - but have a lot more capability than Pi, plus come in useful packages.

Just thought it would be a useful link for here.

cookie(n.) 1730, Scottish, but the sense is “plain bun,” and it is debatable whether it is the same word; in the sense of “small, flat, sweet cake” by 1808 (American English); this use is from Dutch koekje “little cake,” diminutive of koek “cake,” from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). “Dutch influence is no doubt responsible also for the parallel use of the word in South African English” [Ayto, “Diner’s Dictionary”].

As an example, I once lived in a brick house in the southwest. A true brick house, built in the 1930’s so EVERY wall was 3 or 4 courses of brick - 18".

The west-facing wall would bake all afternoon and then radiate that heat all night long. During the summer months that wall never cooled off, it was always warm (80°+).

Winter it was nice, but summer it was a bitch cooling that place at all.

Ah, yes, good ole ignorant jingoism.

You probably don’t know that code in Florida has required concrete reinforced cinder block 1st floor for residential houses since the 90’'s, because that’s what can withstand hurricanes and flooding. Typical block construction only requires concrete and rebar reinforcement at windows, doorways, etc, while this code requires it in every other opening, thereby tying every course together, from first to last. This prevents flood surges from weakening the structure, and also provides a physical barrier for objects flying at 100mph+.

Code has also required hurricane straps on every rafter, since forever.

There’s probably a lot more code I don’t know.

But here you’d have them build houses out of stone which wouldn’t withstand flooding, unlike reinforced and anchored block, cause in your hubris you think you know something.

Houses are already wrapped with materials like Tyvek, before the exterior is put on.

Dude, this is older than you. It’s older than me.

oh look at you! its the same person over and over again! i got the feeling someone was following me around trying to downvote my posts. who do you work? the republicans or the russians or both?

Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?

A little aside: Eaton does a whole slew of electrical products, including things as “simple” as circuit breakers to electrical assist for large trucks.

Electrical is what they do.

Well that’s good at least!

Does that mean you could theoretically get all setup and pull the internet plug for your Plex server and just let it run only locally?

(I haven’t used Plex since about 2012)

Expand on your file sharing model/needs/usage pattern. .

Syncthing synchronizes specified folders. It’s quite configurable, but it’s really meant for a stable, regular syncing process. If you need more ad-hoc, it can do it but it’s not like using a network share.

Resilio Sync has a neat feature - selective sync, that allows you to grab specific files from a shared folder ad-hoc, rather than always sync all files all the time. I use it to grab media files (multi-gig) from my server when traveling.

IIRC, both have a “send only” setting for a sync job, so everyone could simply share to a specific folder, and have selective sync enabled for that folder… I think.

Both are Windows/Linux/iOS, and I think they’re both Mac.

Are the read-write speeds sufficient for a server?

Depends.

For most of us, most use-cases, yes. I have 2 externals on USB that are no slower than my ancient NAS that only does 100Mbit Ethernet (honestly they’re probably faster).

Now if you’re running a transactional database, then externals are bad for throughput, but also stability/reliability and heat.

One thing I rarely see mentioned here is that external drives lack any cooling. This is fine for most uses-cases where people will intermittently copy data to them. But of you try sustained writes you can watch the temps climb in minutes. Which is why both of mine have old, large case fans on them (duct taped in place no less). They’re really quiet especially since I run them at 5v instead of 12V.

Externals are generally recommended against of it can be avoided. But of it’s what you have, run it, just know the lifespan is likely limited, and they’re not to be trusted from stability standpoint - always have redundancy/backups for important data.

My externals are part of my local redundancy - they replicate my main data drive, which is also replicated to my ancient NAS. So I have 3 local copies of everything.

GM/Chrysler add gimmicks to mask how shitty the cars are.

Yes.

I sweat like a horse, “leather” seats make it worse.