Switching ip addresses doesn’t matter for things on the tailnet using the magic dns https://tailscale.com/docs/features/magicdns

It’s a single rack rather than it being a whole data center. The whole constellation of satellites is the data center.

Again, I’m not advocating for this as a good idea, just saying that cooling is not the reason it is a bad one.

That simply isn’t true, the video I linked explains everything clearly, for a 20kw satellite the cooling area is needed very modest.

Still not a great idea and I am not advocating for it, but people need to stop fighting bullshit with bullshit and start fighting it with truth.

That simply isn’t true, the video I linked explains everything clearly, for a 20kw satellite the cooling area is needed very modest.

Still not a great idea and I am not advocating for it, but people need to stop fighting bullshit with bullshit and start fighting it with truth.

You can, they just have to be smaller rather than a massive single orbital data centrer like this proposal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1e80

Still not a great idea because of the economics, but the same can be said for the data center build out on earth too, so why would they let that stop them?

Most n100 new mobos need ddr5, a few older ones only need ddr4 though. Either is unaffordable right now. Better off going for something second hand which uses ddr3. Will use a bit more power but the break even point vs an n100 + ram will probably be a decade at least.

A pi 5 will cost way more than a second hand mini pc.

Don’t forget the power bill, even if they sit idle most of the time. 12 drives * 5 watts * 24 hours * 365.25 days ~= 525 kwh. That would cost me $157 aud a year for electricity.

If I instead bought a 6TB drive brand new I’d break even after 3 years, assuming the 500GB drives are $0.

I’m buying dell and hp laptops? I thought I was the world expert on what I am doing but apparently not.

I never said it couldn’t be done, hell, I’ve done it myself. Try being a human and asking me what my actual argument or suggested approach is, try re-reading what I actually said rather than assuming it is X just so you can dunk on it.

Max TDP is completely irrelevant, that is about cooling capacity which completely sucks in a laptop, hence the chip limit. The relevant factor for a server is idle power draw at the wall outlet.

For my servers I get second hand dell / hp / mini pcs for peanuts. Sips power, still work fine, still going strong, upgradeable storage etc. Second hand laptops of the same era are now useless ewaste.

This has been their MO for time immemorial. Make windows shit, right up to the line where people will leave. Only discover where the line actually is after they’ve stepped over it, then backpedal just enough to stem the exodus and keep people locked in. Repeat.

Ok “bro” damn you’re right and you sure showed my unc self! What an idiot I am!

Pick any laptop model you like and search for “how to remove battery” or look up the model on ifixit. Show me a single one where the battery cannot be removed. I’ll wait.

Batteries are more problematic sitting at full charge than when they are empty. You’re also paying money for features you don’t use (battery, screen, keyboard) and have less ability to upgrade, repair, or add storage.

By all means if you have an old spare laptop lying around use it as a server, I usually take the battery out though.

The battery backup is a more of a liability than a benefit imo, will just turn into a spicy pillow eventually. Especially considering any power loss will hit your router/network too rendering the server’s battery moot. The only thing a laptop battery really protects against is accidental temporary unplugging.

Now it is a dumb tv with a 30 second boot up time and a clunky menu for changing inputs.

Every additional customer using their product currently causes them to lose money, hand over fist.

You should still boycott them anyway though, they care about user numbers and user activity.

How so? I can easily just delete the whole s3 bucket.

I’m aware, but I myself have < 3TB and if I actually need it I’ll be more happy to pay. It’s my “backup of last resort”, I keep other backups on site and infrequently on a portable HDD offsite.

I use aws s3 deep archive storage class, $0.001 per GB per month. But your upload bandwidth really matters in this case, I only have a subset of the most important things backed up this way otherwise it would take months just to upload a single backup. Using rclone sync instead of just uploading the whole thing each time helps but you still have to get that first upload done somehow…

I have complicated system where:

• borgmatic backups happen daily, locally
• those backups are stored on a btrfs subvolume
• a python script will make a read-only snapshot of that volume once a week
• the snapshot is synced to s3 using rclone with --checksum --no-update-modtime
• once the upload is complete the btrfs snapshot is deleted

I’ve also set up encryption in rclone so that all the data is encrypted an unreadable by aws.

only windows (maybe mac)