That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.

Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine…

My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost ‘free’. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.

Any quality brand SSD (Samsung, Kingston, WD, etc) is going to be more reliable in every way compared to mechanical disks, they just cost a lot more right now. Do NOT buy off brand, random Chinese SSD, you will regret it.

When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 ‘premium’ for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.

Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I’m very happy with the choice.

If you want to invest in a mutual bank that invests only in New England farms and small businesses check out Walden Mutual. They have high yield savings accounts.

https://www.waldenmutual.com/

We let our bananas get ripe until they’re about to liquify and toss them whole in the freezer. When we have enough we take the black turds out and thaw them in a bowl. When thawed cut the tip open and squeeze out the condensed banana goodness like toothpaste. It’s gross but it makes next level banana bread. Use Joanne Chang’s recipe, its the best.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/flours-famous-banana-bread-recipe-2015076

As a Bose engineer, thank you! Most folks don’t realize all Bose products are designed in Massachusetts.

Or master and slave boards…

Yes and because wiregurad is stateless you’ll need a script that checks if your DNS endpoint has updated and restart the wireguard interface so it pulls the fresh DNS/updated IP address. I had to make said bash script for my nodes.

Way too thin to add useful insulation. Much more likely for sound deadening to stop horrible echos.

I ran it for awhile but the upgrades even in docker because unnecessarily difficult and annoying. They often rolled out so many incremental and useless updates instead of one large one every once in awhile. I abandoned it for mattermost.

I live in Massachusetts and take the most lazy route for composting because I have space. I just rake up all the leaves in the fall into a giant pile near my compost and all year long I just layer leaves and greens. Once a year I start a new pile and occasionally I’ll turn the piles. Otherwise i let worms and critters do their jobs! I’m setup as a host on ShareWaste and have other families bring their compostable junk to me so my piles are substantial.

I bought all the gear to do 10gbe but ultimately went back to 1gig simply because the power consumption. The switch alone used 20w at idle and each NIC burned 8w and I couldn’t justify it.

So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.

As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily…steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don’t seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. If you don’t upload new photos via photoprism using WebDAV you have to make your own scripts to watch for changes and refresh which took a lot of time for me to setup.

I’m just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.

Most folks ignore laptops, but if you’re OK with USB storage or getting the special caddy to install the internal 2.5" drive you can get great deals on laptops. This one idles around 4W with the screen off.

Status symbol and to project a personality.

I’ll upvote the heck out of any gnome stuff. Still like their first album best but I enjoy any good new metal and this is great.