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  • Yeah, that’s where the ‘IT professional’ lost me.
    (They might have a complicated setup with everything overly managed … but this is just a new vlan, unrelated to anything …)

    Not to mention you might want to have one for test purposes anyway.

    Also there are alternativnes, like mobile data via phone hotspot.

    Or giving a kid to play some horror game on your gaming rig.

    Or saying you don’t have wifi, wired net only, why didn’t they bring an ethernet dongle??










  • I totally agree - and depending on your needs & budget, slightly older server-grade equipment idle power usage is much higher compared to consumer stuff (servers didn’t really know how to idle until “recently”). And also if you don’t host a tone of different things for different users (ie you don’t need all the pcie lanes) you get so much faster CPUs for the same monies.

    The only server-grade things you need are ofc disk drives that are gonna do server stuff.

    And a good PSU (but a nice Seasonic is almost server-grade anyways). When ppl talk about power usage they tend to forget PSUs (they check their PC usage with a shitty PSU that itself can’t idle low & maybe doesn’t even get to 90% at peak loads).









  • Yes, this is how I understand it too, it’s not like half of your shirt ends up in the ocean (and the amount of plastics that ends up in the landfills isn’t really included in the microplastics that circle around - that’s a problem for the future - so the vomit-inducing fast fashion/consumerism is a bigger problem from every other standpoint).

    And yes again on the only viable solution - it’s stupid to try to slightly improve something you are gonna be producing more of every year. The “improvements” are just propaganda we are (successfully) fed for decades & it just muddies the discussions whilst keeping the current/same profiteers in power (without even changing the business model).