That's fair. I much prefer a small vehicle with a short overhang for visibility and convenience.
In fact what I'd really like to see is a Telo truck with the modularity of the Slate. They're already planning AWD, but the SUV/hatchback option isn't as complete as Slate's. Hopefully their second gen nails everything and gets the price down. It seems like it will be difficult for them to compete with the much more heavily capitalized options.
Slate has a size comparison widget on their website. You can show it with the silhouette of a current full size pickup and a circa 1985 small pickup. It's almost exactly the same size as that generation.
In what way? It's lighter than the average US vehicle. And the height of the grill/hood is much lower than a typical full size pickup truck. It's only a couple of inches higher in front than a circa 1985 compact pickup.
I think it has a substantial look to it that can make it seem larger than it is. I walked around a prototype and it definitely felt closer to my VW Golf in size than to a big modern pickup or SUV.
I think you missed the point entirely. Yes, the thread is about weird flexes. Just yesterday there was a discussion in !selfhosted@lemmy.world about Plex, and a lot of people who run Jellyfin were saying running Plex isn't selfhosting. A weird (to me) anti-Plex flex.
OP asked for weird flexes. Weird flex in reply.
So when you replied:
hosting your own media server is just so weird
You seem to be disparaging the hobby of selfhosted media servers. That's why I responded as I did. I never said that I participate in that hobby at all, so I'm not sure why you think I'm the one doing the flexing here.
I guess what you may be saying is that you don't recognize "running a media server" as a hobby at all, but some kind of weird flex within the space of "I like movies." I can see your point that in a conversation about "I like movies," jumping in with "I run my own media server, akshully" could come off very negatively. I agree. There are a lot of self-congratulatory dingbats in that space. But that's not what happened here.
Open-ended question looking for weird flexes people have heard. Weird flex was provided.
DAC will have less latency, but the difference is likely small. 1/10th, but if your latency is already <1ms then you probably don't care.
Heat/power is another difference. Copper SFP modules tend to use a lot of watts and dissipate a lot of heat. DACs are very, very low wattage. You can probably save 4 watts on that link by switching. More if your specific copper modules run hotter than most or if you're using an SFP+ at 1Gbps.
For your situation I would be more likely to go with a single drive with btrfs and dup for metadata redundancy. Regular snapshots and scrubs.
Use a second drive in the same system with btrfs to store snapshots at wider scheduled intervals. These will be bigger since no CoW on the separate file system. Scheduled scrub here too.
Use a third drive with ext4 as a backup target using a separate backup mechanism.
Use the fourth drive as a spare, or in a separate location as a target to send the backups if you don't already have an off-site solution.
Enter the aftermarket replacement panel bolts with security heads. Now they can only mangle the panels while trying to remove them!