FrederikNJS

Yep

I realised a while ago that it’s way cheaper to hunt for second-hand intel NUCs, and the resulting machine is way more powerful… And the RAM and storage is upgradeable, if the NUC didn’t come with plenty of storage or RAM already…

https://piefed.zip/post/1240538

PSU can indeed make a pretty big difference.

If you only have a 80 Plus certified PSU, and see 65 watts drawn at the wall, your system might actually only be using 52 watts, the remaining 13 watts are wasted as heat in your PSU. 80 Plus Gold, Platinum, or Titanium all carry higher efficiencies, but also cost more to buy.

Actual efficiency is also heavily influenced by the load. Most PSUs are most efficient at 50% load. Both lower and higher loads with result in worse efficiency.

Here’s an article with some more details: https://www.technewstoday.com/power-supply-efficiency/

https://minerva-archive.org/ is working on archiving all the data from Myrient. Unfortunately their main page is down right now. But they have a client that volunteers are running to coordinate the archival efforts. Last I heard they already had >80% of all the content archived

Resilio wouldn’t work well for distribution…

But archive.org seems to handle torrents pretty well. When they have a bundle they add a torrent with the same content, and set up themselves as webseed… Then everyone can download either directly or through torrent, and choose to seed what they want. If the content changes, post a new torrent… Of course that means that any old seeders get invalidated… But if they care about seeding they could update the torrent and point it at the old download to avoid redownloading everything. But also, how often does this content actually change? If a game iso/rom is ripped/dumped correctly isn’t that data kind of final? Why would the bit-perfect data need to change?

I saw this YouTube video recently that puts out a bit of evidence that it’s not a ballroom, but instead a datacenter:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbJ4ilDvGyc

To me at least, all the clues match perfectly.

I’m expecting Trump to loudly announce that he negotiated so hard, and really got Greenland/Denmark to bow to his mighty nogotiating talents, only to then reveal that what he negotiated is that the US is allowed to build several military bases (which they already could), and that they have gotten rights to extract a chunk of minerals (which they already could).

Then the whole MAGA base will be thrilled with how big and strong their dear leader is…

As this point everything is exactly as it were before he started threatening Greenland and Denmark, except for having lost a large chunk of trust around the world, and MAGA feeling emboldened.

Then a few weeks/months down the line Trump will start threatening with an invasion again…

Why would we buy something we don’t want?