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 Mine is model FW4C (now superseded by the V1410).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 🤷‍♂️

I’m genuinely curious: Why censor the word “Nazi”?

No, but it has some of the same letters

In the (fiction) novel Artemis by Andy Weir, which takes place in a city on the moon, they have a heat management system that seemed pretty cool. They convert heat to light, and radiate the light out into space. Not sure how feasible/scalable that is, but I thought the concept was cool.

Lol what? I’m so out of the loop

These guys right here, officer

Welp, there’s my cursed upvote of the day.

Yeah, I think it was the sun. She probably trained me to follow her own circadian rhythm, using her cuteness and affection to convince me to comply lol

you can’t train [a dog] to wake you up every day at a certain specific time, unless it can recognise some signal.

My dog always woke me up at a consistent time every morning. I didn’t train her to do that, and I don’t know what the signal was (other than the position of the sun, I guess). I used to hate it, because it was always too early, but I eventually got used to it.

Maybe I was the trainee, in this case 😆

Thanks for censoring the word “n•des” so it’s family friendly

Oops, that’s what I get for being on my phone hours after I should have gone to sleep. I’m an idiot at those hours lol