That’s a little harsh. Under 25 and over 75 would be more appropriate.

That's the kind of soft-hearted laissez-faire attitude that got us where we are today

Yeah we need dictatorship with a dictator that opposes all your views. /s

We need to recognize that deliberately engineered psyops are deliberately engineered psyops

In real life, not disney movies made for simple minded children, lazy apathy is what most real evil looks like. Please see "the banality of evil."

At which point do you cross the line? Somebody who murders to take someone else's money is ultimately just too lazy to provide value in return for money, so they're not evil?

When apathy results in harm to others and benefits to oneself, those others are allowed to appropriately label that apathy as evil.

You can call them bad or shitty or something else.

True evil is different.

If someone wants to be bad or shitty in a way that harms nobody but themselves, then more power to them. That's freedom.

If someone wants to be bad or shitty in a way that makes their lives own better while making the lives of everyone around them worse, that's evil and parasitic, and I'm not going to wring my hands about labeling it as such.

~2400 vs ~5600 isn’t “small team vs. behemoth”.

They were nowhere near 2400 in the time range I mentioned.

Proton is frankly a bad company and this is unsurprising.

The city of Szeged in Hungary did this recently. You can find some numbers from there.

Anyone sending and receiving power through this project doesn't deal in kW.

It's the fate of people relying on cloud services, including the complete removal of old LLM versions.

If you want stability you go local.

Which models do you use locally?

Seems like the typical Microsoft experience nowadays.

My ROG Ally ran fine on Windows 11 at the beginning, but a year later always randomly crashed, even when idle, on a fresh OS install. After switching to SteamOS it runs stable again.

The Mac mini exists. Suffering is a choice.

And used intel Mac minis are cheap and work. They're pretty handy and upgradable actually.

I'm tired of maker-washed overpriced slow gear that was supposed to be cheap, but is expensive and impossible to find. There are infinitely better choices than RPis. I recently went through having to make a custom shielded M.2 cable (by wrapping it in aluminum foil and Kapton tape) and stability burn-in testing for an SBC that would otherwise spontaneously hang. I'm tired of craptastic SBCs.

PSA: Please reuse old stuff first and stop buying new, new, new when alternatives exist that are suitable for a particular use.

Pis are awesome if you have PoE+ or better. I have two pis one of them using the nvme+poe+ hat connected with just an ethernet cable. It also has serial UART port that counts as an offline remote access of sorts.

I also just sent a Rockpro64 on a NAS case with 2x25TB disks overseas to my parent's home where it runs as a low powered backup server.

Mkay but what is the advantage of Mac Mini over HP Elitedesk? If it's for running servers like CasaOS etc., you will have to deal with one problem after another. It's my biggest gripe with Apple's hardware: it's deliberately obsoleted after a few years (as opposed to what MS is doing - they only started playing this game with Windows 11) and at this point you are more or less limited to what was available at that time. (You can get around this with Dosdude etc. for some time but you hit the wall at some point.)

I've been Linux-only for over a decade, I've long since made that choice :)

Also, the cheapest Mac Mini is $600. The Mini PCs we're discussing are generally sub-$200.

I rather not having my wallet suffer, starting at 700 € in Germany.