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czardestructo

@ czardestructo @lemmy.world

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Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

  • Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan

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  • That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.

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  • Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine....

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  • My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost 'free'. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.

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  • Any quality brand SSD (Samsung, Kingston, WD, etc) is going to be more reliable in every way compared to mechanical disks, they just cost a lot more right now. Do NOT buy off brand, random Chinese SSD, you will regret it.

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  • When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 'premium' for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.

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  • Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I'm very happy with the choice.

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    What's your favorite small portable speaker?

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  • Network Switch

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  • I bought all the gear to do 10gbe but ultimately went back to 1gig simply because the power consumption. The switch alone used 20w at idle and each NIC burned 8w and I couldn't justify it.

  • PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?

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  • So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.

  • PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?

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  • As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily...steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don't seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. If you don't upload new photos via photoprism using WebDAV you have to make your own scripts to watch for changes and refresh which took a lot of time for me to setup.

    I'm just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.

  • Mini PC for Jellyfin

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  • Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica

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  • Status symbol and to project a personality.

  • China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

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  • Mint snaps Ubuntu or something

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  • The Jehovah's witness of lemmy

  • Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate

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  • Exactly by design. It's a lot cheaper to make people quit than to lay them off and pay a severance package.

  • New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires

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  • As someone who designs global battery powered products in the USA and is well versed in the regulatory hurdles, enforcing these rules is long overdue. The fact that people willingly buy and bring these illegitimate products into their home and wear them on their body is mind blowing to me. You can design a safe lithium products but doing it requires full knowledge of the chemistry, electrical design, safety certification process and some wisdom. Chinese vendors on Amazon have very little of this.