I spend a good part of the day just trying to keep it running.
True that. When I stopped working, I added regular exercise, hoping to stave off the decay as long as possible. Working OK so far, but I know that it’s inevitable for doctor visits to become part of the routine. Just the next phase of life, and I’m going to have to figure out how to make the most of it. Keep the brain sharp - the modern world has a lot more opportunities to share my brain than the old world.
Similar boat: I am fine; everyone else seems fucked.
I suspect this is why those old robber barons had such elaborate social circuits: to keep themselves distracted from the shit going on around them and any role they played in creating said shit.
There’s not much an individual can do about the systemic decline. I mean, vote for people who seem like they’ll work against it, but that’s kind of tears-in-the-sea.
You spent your working years trying to do the right thing & help your country/people on a large scale; you can do that in retirement on a small scale. Look for a mutual aid group, help your neighbors, look for local NPOs who could use your skills. When the system sucks, we have to help each other outside of the system. Remind each other that people are actually, usually, pretty decent, and that our perceptions get twisted by a handful of ragin psychoaths who have somehow gotten to be in charge.
Yeah, I started with a PCI (no e) card, but had to switch to USB when it got hard to find cheap motherboards with PCI slots. It’s an old setup :) Honestly amazed that they can fit the whole thing into a thumb-sized USB dongle, although I suppose it’s easier without the analog side.
I use a USB tuner like https://hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_dualhd.html and https://mythtv.org/ Has to be plugged into an external antenna, and it really helps for that antenna to be on the 2nd floor, in a window, with clear view unobstructed by aluminum siding.
tvheadend.org or HDhomerun are probably more general solutions.
You might think that ordering cases of canned tomatoes, or a 10-year supply of rubber gloves are poor management decisions, but that’s because this AI is playing seven dimensional chess against your tic-tac-toe. Just wait until it’s cornered the tomato market, and then you’ll see.
I added homeassistant and some power monitors to my stack, and the IT rack comes in around 1.5 kWh/day - one of the biggest power budgets in the house, even with a low-power CPU, after adding in a few HDDs, a couple switches, and the cable modem. I’m also in a cheap power state, so it’s not a financial pressure, just surprising how quickly 10W here, 10W there…add up. At $0.50/kWh, I’d think solar would be a no-brainer.
Keep power in mind. For most home-use services, you don’t really need much computing power, and you might be able to do all you want with a single box. Even 30W, 24/7 is $25 (@10¢/kWh)-125(@50¢)/year of electricity. That said, it’s a small price to learn how to do clustering or swarms.
I’d guess that your biggest load would be transcoding in Jellyfin, for which Intel Gen 6 added h265 to quicksync. The Gen 3/4 CPUs in M73 would be extra slow with most modern codecs.
You had to have multiple jacks, because the phone cord was only so long. No one wants to go running through the house to get to the phone before it stops ringing.
Are they not building houses with phone jacks anymore? I mean, I know “no one” has a landline, but not even the wiring?
Wonder if they’ll unblock Infowars, now that it’s The Onion.
.63W: N100 server with 2 HDD & 2 SSD. Cable modem. 5-port POE switch. WAP. Ooma VOIP device.
The POE & WAP are like 10W between them, but I had to add them to get strong enough wifi to one particular client. Authentik somehow consumes 3W. Immich also has a high idle load, so I leave it down most of the time.