Oh I am not saying specifically get a raspberry pi, personally looking at a bee-link N150 mini PC. It isn’t even that much more expensive than the 16GB raspberry pi and as its x86 I can just run normal debian installs in proxmox.

Yeah watching Iran and Israel fight I don’t really feel bad for either side. Does suck for the civilians in the middle though.

So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time - a server typically isn’t.

This is actually something that applies to cheap products too. Was in Asda a little while ago and saw 2 LED bulbs with the same lumen rating. Cheaper one used 3w more and you only saved £1. Running it for 8 hours a day for a year would cost double that saving in electricity. For a server you are looking at almost £2 per watt each year. Does that ewaste look so good to you now?

Some things are absolutely worth getting second hand, but you really should be careful considering the power cost as well.

Quick edit: If you don’t need it running 24/7, consider something like AWS too. I love selfhosting but if its not running much it might be cheaper to not bother buying hardware.

Much more road wear as weight increases too

Just don’t adjust parking spaces and fine them for overflowing it. The problem will solve its self very quickly then.

So steam is set to autorun by default?

By that reasoning my old PC in like 2008 was a console because you boot and it starts up with a list of games to play that are all loaded from Linux DVD, just click to launch any of them immediately.

Yep. It’s so infuriating to watch.

How? Its a PC with a built in steam controller. You can play dwarf fortress over SSH using a keyboard, it plays like a PC.

If you take a picture while someone is throwing a molotov, could inverting the colour of their clothing THEN blurring it actually help? As they wouldn’t be able to see clearly but they would be trying to look for other pictures of someone wearing the wrong colour jumper.

Does it need to?

Isn’t it normal for countries to produce some of their military gear though? Surely you don’t think they should have bought everything from the US

Super tux kart is free

So a high end PC is cheaper than a switch + 10 games, and the PC has a loooot of games already

I have played them, they are ok. But I would be extremely disappointed if I spent that much money and that is all I got.

Also didn’t grow up with any Nintendo stuff. Play in the games at a friend’s house and it’s like, alright. If you spent £5 on it. But the games are crazy expensive.

Steamdeck also isn’t a console anyway, it’s a handheld PC.

It’s a handheld PC, a new product category. The switch isn’t competing with it, it’s just a toy.

I won’t even pirate their games

But none of it is wrong is it? Just that incomplete.

Now makes me wonder what is the most recent mathematical discovery that is understandably useful to an average person.