Yeah it’s the drives and the controller for all the drives that are making the power usage what it is. I could replace some of the older drives with a newer one and be able to ditch the smaller drives and controllers, but it seems a waste to do that until they die.

Also, I wouldn’t mind ditching for a Sufficient™ amount of nvme storage, but SSDs aren’t actually getting cheaper and are probably going to do the opposite, so I’ll likely end up doing uh, nothing,

Anecdata, but SSDs will last longer than you want to use them in terms of write endurance.

My NAS OS SSDs are 500gb hynix drives from about 8 years ago, and they’re pushing 150 TBW.

150TB is a LOT of write cycles on a small drive, and they’re still reporting 94% endurance remaining.

The controller will die or I’ll upgrade well before that breaks at the rate it’s going.

Also keep in mind that you can read flash all you want and that doesn’t wear anything (unlike a HDD, amusingly), so for most consumer use cases, they’ll load the drive up with their data, and then only slowly modify or add to it, but have lots and lots of read access.

HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total

Whether your drives are idle is also a very use-case specific thing and I wouldn’t spend any time trying to generalize based on that math as a “oh this is how it works for everyone”.

In my case, I’ve got 5 drives all spun up at all times because of torrrent clients, Jellyfin users, and just general media acquisition and public content serving.

This thing would dramatically reduce my power footprint and save me giant buckets of money over it’s lifespan while being smaller/faster IO performance/lower noise.

(My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so…)

Americans tend to buy the most car they think they can afford.

Hell, Americans buy the most car they can finagle a loan for, independent of if they can or can’t actually afford it.

It wouldn’t be surprising to find that a good portion of Tesla buyers are stuck in the trap where they owe so much on it that there’s no way they could afford the hit to replace it, because they can barely make their payments now.

For real: I’m using a 38" ultra wide, and if you had told child me that a 38" monitor would be the smallest display in the house I’d have told you that you’re full of shit.

She works at Google, not Yandex.

Though I’m sure Google could manage something equally mysterious.

Yeah it’s more hilarious: he’s not hooking up with anyone, this is pure turkey baster going on.

Not that I disagree, but putting it in the hands of a foundation that’s beholden to corporate money isn’t exactly going to be the solution to “eventually messing up stuff”.

Even if he did, how could you tell the difference between the holes dementia has made and the holes a worm would make?

You hope, anyways. Given how shit’s going, I’d be entirely unsurprised if someone said that and actually meant it.

While that’s true, “I’m sorry that you got upset at what I did” is in no way actually an apology or an admission that they might have been wrong, so…

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I’m going go assume from your instance you’re not American, but the big flaw in your logic is if you come after me with a pipe, I’m absolutely within my rights to put holes into you until you stop moving.

Vigalante justice is going to get the people who think they’re “doing a good thing” killed, and with zero consequences to the pedos who shoot them.

Perhaps a more adult, informed, nuanced take is of use here?

You have to go at it the other way, now:

As someone of modest means, I fully support and endorse giving billoinaires more money. After all, if they don’t have money, then what will trickle down to me?

Wait no that’s still not funny at all.

Basically, think ChatGPT

lot of people from the US with gas grid (which we don’t really have around here), is it really so that your Joe Average can’t tell the difference between 1kWh of heat produced by gas compared to electricity

Right, because for most people gas is metered and sold by the CCF, and not converted into kW at any point in the chain.

So I know i used 30ccf last month, but there’s zero indication what that is in kW, because we usually don’t convert between the meter (which is volumetric) and the billing, which could be anything but why bother?

Installed yes, but the OOBE that runs (assuming the OEM didn’t fuck it up) is more or less the same as a retail install: you have to add the account, untick the 300 ‘yes, please spy on me’ boxes, and tell it that you do not want office 14 times.

CU and the lack of federal public funding for elections (by which I mean the state funds the campaigns of those who want federal offices) basically resulted in the US political class ending up fully in the pocket of the corporations.

That’s what absolutely destroyed our ability to elect anyone other than what the corporate doners want, and thus you end up with nothing but corporate-friendly politicians, and thus a whole bunch of people who have no problem with facism and well, here we are.

I seem to clearly remember a story from the Bible about this, but perhaps they’ve simply skipped that part during their reading?

This is also a royal pain if you’re into retro computers and want anything from like 2001-2004, because damn near every single motherboard from those eras need to be recapped, like, without exception. Either they’re dead, or they will be soon.

Super annoying to get a thing you want to play with and the first thing you have to do is replace 20 caps and spend 3 hours doing it before you can even see if it would otherwise even work, lol.