If there’s no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?

I looked at the website and every link and have no idea what it does.

“Connect with your friends and community” was in a screenshot.

It depends on how old. My Xeons are e-2224G. They’re 14nm coffee lake. They are rated at 71Watts but as I said only use 15w streaming 4k.

They’re $190 on eBay with 16gb ram and 256 GB SSD.

A 16 GB Pi5 is $130 just for the motherboard. You still need storage, case and power supply.

I switched to ECC only for my home server over 10 years ago after a silent ram error corrupted some data on my raid drives. I didn’t realize there was a problem until I went to look at an old photo and it was corrupted.

“8 percent of the DIMMs saw correctable error per year”

And this was from 20 years ago when memory density was much less so the chance of an error was lower.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

I got an old Lenovo P330 Xeon with 64 G of ECC ram. I recently checked its power usage for another poster asking the same thing. I was shocked to see it only use 15Watts while streaming 4k hevc.

For server use, ECC is important because it’s going to be on 24/7 for years at a time.

Not really. The first local login to configure it requires a Plex account. And that account times out maybe monthly? It seems every few months when I remote to the Plex server it wants the plex account to login.

The problem with Plex is it isn’t fully hosted. Plex controls user passwords. You can’t use it without logging into their servers.

There are free dynamic DNS services so you don’t need to pay for a static ip. I like noip.com.

If build volume is a limitation, I’ve seen all sorts of snap together plates you could crib from. For example I recently printed this pacman boardgame. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5396911

The interlocks are completely hidden by the overhangs of the other plates. Once snapped together, you can’t see that it is made of separate parts.

It would have to be a national mandate that is available in every city or everyone would use the free service from one city but not vote to raise the taxes in their city to pay for their own.

If it’s a national mandate, then might as well make it a national service.

yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence

Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren’t official renters.

That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city residents pay for it but how do you verify “citizenship”?

enshitify before the IPO

I always see it after. Because then the suits take over and it becomes a mandate to increase profits quarterly for the share holders. IPOs want to show happy users to sell the idea of future revenue from milking those users.

I’m sure Google does monetize the gps data instantly, then throws it away rather than save old data that only costs money to respond to government requests.

This is a case where privacy is economically beneficial to Google.

The device only was for privacy. When the data was stored in the cloud, the government had unrestricted access. By making it device only they need to get your device to get that data.

Btw the CPU in the Lenovo P330 is an e-2174g. I also got an e-2274g.

I got a sff P330 Xeon with integrated graphics for ~$500 two years ago that includes case power supply etc. Far faster than an n100 and even lower power than if you added a GPU to an n100.

I just plugged in a kilowatt to check:

My Lenovo sff workstation running Plex idles at 15 watts- which is 90% of the time. Streaming 4k 52Mbs hevc (This Flash Gordon is my torture test that caused me to upgrade 2 years ago) it’s 18 watts! I was so surprised that I went back and unplugged the Ethernet thinking I put the killawatt on the wrong server.

What’s your budget? I’m a big fan of old Xeon servers.

You have to look at the datasheet. It says 6 minutes at full load and 18 minutes at half. Full data can’t be listed because it’s a non linear curve. The website gives you a calculator at the bottom.

https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SMC1500-2UC/apc-smartups-c-line-interactive-1440va-rackmount-2u-120v-6x-nema-515r-outlets-smartconnect-port-usb-and-serial-communication-avrgraphic-lcd/

You pay a huge premium for rack mount. You could buy 2-3 regular UPS for the price of one rack mount. I bought a shelf for my rack and have regular UPSs on the shelf. Note that you can only chain 1 ups into another without problems. So it’s best to separate devices onto different UPSs or buy one that supports plugging external batteries.

Watts is peak usage not watt hours. You can have two 1500 watt UPSs but one could last far longer because it has extra batteries but the same 1500 watt inverter as another model.