qaatloz

joined 2 years ago
[–] qaatloz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When it comes to 16-bit games dosbox(-x) and other derivatives are your friends. Works on both windows and Linux

[–] qaatloz 17 points 2 days ago

Time to complain on truth social to Donald.
Why is my deal proposal not answered which was send in a mail with subject: "Transactional relationship improvement by affirmation of 100 million dollars to the expression program of the Trump foundation"

[–] qaatloz 12 points 3 weeks ago

I think teams belong in 2024, in 2025 the icon of copilot should belong here. Its being shoved down your throat if you like it or not.

[–] qaatloz 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So its digging up dead children?🤔

[–] qaatloz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have replaced my amd phenom II X6, 12GB ram and 4 disk raid 10 and a crappy psu desktop, with a topton amd ryzen 5825U with 64 GB ram and 2 TB SSD.
I run proxmox with powertop optimized excluding the ethernet adapters.
This was really a big step forward in performance and because my workloads (nextcloud,homeassistant and vaultwarden) are mostly idle a lot of the time the processor cores can spend in sleep mode conserving power. To be honest i have not used an power measuring device, so my estimation is based on the powertop reported powerconsumption times 2. However in homeassistant the lowest power consumed in the night for my home dropped from 147 watts to about 85 watts.

[–] qaatloz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Take also power consumption in consideration. I myself have run a homeserver based on an older amd processor and recently updated to a low power device. The old server had a standby powerusage of about 60-70 watt. The new one has a standby usage closer to 2,5 - 5 watts while having a lot more performance. Depending where you are on the world and the powercosts the powersavings you have offset the costs of new hardware within 1,5-2 years if the server runs 24/7.

When and if you need a homeserver realy depends on your specific needs. For me: I do not want to use cloud services as primary storage for my personal and family photos. I want to run homeautomation based on homeassistant and a password manager on my own server.
For you it might be different. Consider that network storage from a fileserver has typically a lower performance so using it for games and gamefiles might not work.

Also the type of fileserver to deploy (windows shares/samba vs nfs) depends on what os you run on your laptop. Typically i would assume you use windows and would a linux server running samba be most logical choice. Or a more preconfigured os like openmediavault which helps a lot with a more intuitive gui.

However if file sharing is the only usecase maybe a nas like a synology, qnap or asustor might be a easier system to setup. This also tackles the powerconsumption issue.

[–] qaatloz 2 points 2 years ago

Het bijzondere is dat mijn neef die in Nicaragua ontwikkelingswerk met plaatselijke boeren daar deed, dit probleem van technische innovatie als magische oplossing 15 jaar geleden ook benoemde.

Voor hem was dat daar nog in een context waarbij allerlei bestrijdingsmiddelen die hier al lang verboden zijn daar nog volop gebruikt werden. Dagelijks werden er boeren ziek en waren er wel weer andere problemen die met een volgend middeltje bestreden kon worden volgens onze vrienden van de chemische industrie. Heb je wat onkruid: spuit gewoon middel X. Teveel insecten rond je koeien: spuit middel Y.