I think we need to qualify “idling”, my NAS runs bittorrent with thousands of torrents, so it’s never really “idle”, it just isn’t always doing intensive processing such as transcoding.

Eh, TBH I’d like to consume less power, but I mean, a 30-40W difference isn’t going to ruin me or the planet, I’ve got a rather efficient home all in all.

And more freedom.

I think you can install OpenMediaVault on that, at least I used to run it on a Pi 3 and an USB drive. Then just run whatever docker container you wish to.

as long as you drop the video card

As I wrote below, some motherboards won’t POST without a GPU.

Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.

Yeah, and what’s more, if one of those appliance-like NASes breaks down, how do you fix it? With a normal PC you just swap out the defective part.

So I did this, using a Ryzen 3600, with some light tweaking the base system burns about 40-50W idle. The drives add a lot, 5-10W each, but they would go into any NAS system, so that’s irrelevant. I had to add a GPU because the MB I had wouldn’t POST without one, so that increases the power draw a little, but it’s also necessary for proper Jellyfin transcoding. I recently swapped the GPU for an Intel ARC A310.

By comparison, the previous system I used for this had a low-power, fanless intel celeron, with a single drive and two SSDs it drew about 30W.

tbf I expected worse

My parents did that. Results were not pretty.

Why the hurry? She’s not running away, and if she were, then marrying wouldn’t solve that.

Pro enough to be one of the last employees remaining, but not pro enough to find new employment sooner?

Why do you have a library of kiss’s shoes?

Not really, shortage in one category spills over to the next ones as well

But while The Blood of Dawnwalker won’t have a main quest in the sense of a main storyline that pulls you through the world like an invisible rope, it will have a very clear and overarching goal: for you, Coen, to save your family before 30 days and 30 nights go by. And every significant thing you do in the game world will have a time cost.

Nooope.

It still works quite well, but it has been complemented by economic violence

Thing is, I can also NOT play games and spend my money on other hobbies.

Equivalent doesn’t mean much when it’s not a standard, upgradable PC. This device competes with consoles, not desktop PCs, and needs to be in that price bracket, as the equivalence is not on the hardware or performance, but just “can it play current-gen games?”

Fair pricing means a reasonable profit on the base cost. Trying to gauge what people are willing to pay means that you want to maximise your profit at all costs, consumers be damned.

I understand that’s what Americans consider “fair”, but I don’t fully agree.

First of all, it says it took a month of time from when he posted the initial bounty, not a month of labour… Maybe it took less. Anyway if someone has this sort of skills, they should make good money anywhere.

They’re letting us discuss this ad nauseam just to understand what prices people consider acceptable for these devices

Same thing happened to Francesca Albanese

I mean, isn’t that part of the point? Decentralization to smaller systems