Crap, you are right, units should be in Wh not W/h and as a result I put the conversion to hours backwards. Well, that turns the whole thing from an impressive amount of energy to basically none!

Edit 2: Eheran pointed out I screwed up the math. Correct total energy output is 13μWh. A very, very, very small amount of energy.

(2x10¹⁵ W) * (25s/1x10¹⁸) * (1 h/ 3600 s) = 13μWh

Previous bad math:

It’s a very old 1080p Sharp TV. I know it does have WiFi which I have not setup, but that certainly doesn’t mean the WiFi is off.

I’ll have to see if there is some way to disable the WiFi completely and re-measure it.

I was wondering why they were circling around it when it’s low-armor butt is right there. Then it zeroed in on the open hatch. Can’t go lower than zero armor!

The Germans visibly laughed when they were warned of such a dependence on Russia in 2018. For some reason, they didn’t find such a poor decision to be of concern.

As a comparison, France has invested heavily in nuclear and the Nordic countries heavily on renewables.

Trump has been much, much too friendly with Putin. However, even Trump seems increasingly pissed at him. For example two weeks ago there was news the US is sending a Patriot battery to Ukraine.

Estonia shouldn’t have demonstrated weakness by letting the shadow fleet tanker go a few days ago just because Russia flew a jet overhead. If you show weakness, if you appease dictators, you will get stepped on.

The UPS should have a USB plug in the back. Plug that into your computer and it will read the battery status as if it was a laptop. Then in your OS, set the standard shutdown options when low on battery.

especially if you wanted to play Halo on PC

I still giggle that after years and years of Halo 3+ being a console exclusive, and Halo 2 sucking on Windows for years*, the entire Halo collection now has a Gold rating on Linux. I have very specific memories of being annoyed for years that the most prestigious Microsoft game doesn’t work on a Microsoft gaming platform (Windows).

*God damn does Games for Windows Live suck

A note on the fans specifically, you can buy quiet fans. In general, the larger the fan, the lower the speed you can run it and the quieter it is. You can also setup fan curves so they are only doing anything of note when the computer is pumping out heat (given your statements, that would be basically never).

The electricity usage is a pretty notable thing. Though, if you take the graphics card out of a desktop (use integrated graphics, a dedicated graphics card in a server is just wasted electricity) and set the OS to power saver (this mostly means it won’t boost the CPU to higher clocks), it really won’t use much power. Compared to buying dedicated NAS hardware, you may never recoup the energy costs between the hardware you have and the lower-power hardware you need to buy.

If you don’t already own one, a Kill-A-Watt is a great tool to have. Tells you how much energy a device is using. Biggest thing I found was my TV had a vampire draw of 15W. Literally draws 15W while off. This got the TV put on a power strip I turn off when I’m not using it.

Now, with all that said, sometimes you just want what you want. And there is nothing wrong with that. My goal here is to make sure you don’t feel you have to pick one option over the other.

If you have a desktop, throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Software (like you mentioned Plex or Jellyfin) does the rest. Even if you only have a laptop, a hard drive in a standard USB enclosure will perform this role just fine.

Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Not sure how much more upgradability you could possibly want.

Yeah, and as long as these things never touch the internet, there really isn’t an issue.

What are you intending to run on this server?

• If it is just PiHole, you can basically get the weakest computer you can find.

• If you want lots of storage space, you will need to make sure you have a case and motherboard that will accommodate the drives.

• If you are running encryption on those drives as well, you will need a CPU more powerful than what comes in a Pi, but nothing crazy.

• If you are running lots and lots of VMs, you will want lots of RAM. A linux VM will use maybe a few GB each depending on what software each is running internally, a windows vm will use a bit more.

• If you are doing AI workloads, you will need a graphics card.

They are spending shitloads of money on weapons that immediately get blown up, this pushes up GDP figures. What doesn’t go up is productive work/investments that further the interest of the people of the nation, investments that would continue to reap rewards in the future.

Obviously this isn’t to say that all military spending is bad, far from it, but Russia is dumping piles money into a war they started and never needed to happen. They aren’t defending themselves from some threat, they are simply burning money and resources.

Ah, only the dozenth time this has happened and been fixed…

I’m sure Microsoft doesn’t do it on purpose all the time!

Jesus, talk about luck for the first guy. An anti-tank weapon literally rams you, then goes for someone else nearby.

Well you see, space isn’t flat in this very localized area!

Good on the judge for following up on the citations. Something the law firm should have done before even submitting them!

You can make such a thing!