I doubt most user have any need for great nc performance.

I also doubt those “super performant nextcloud flakes” are actually any faster than a plain old default nc deployment; especially for our use-cases.

Using NixOS is a good recommendation though. Just don’t do flakes unless you actually understand what problem they intend to solve and how catastrophically bad they are at it.

I’d suspect the bots would just try again with a masked user agent when they receive a 403.

I think the best strategy would be to feed the bots shit that looks like real content.

I wouldn’t go ARM unless you really like tinkering with stuff.

I bought a used Celeron J4105-based system years ago for <100€ and it’s doing just fine. The N100 is its successor that should be better in every way.

Don’t be afraid to buy cheap used hardware. Especially things like RAM or cases that don’t really ever break in normal usage.

Two 4TB HDDs for 120€ each is a rip-off. That’s twice what you pay per GB in high capacity drives. Even in the lower capacity segment you can do much better such as 6TB for 100€.

If you have proper (tested!) backups and don’t have any specific uptime requirements, you don’t need RAID. I’d recommend getting one 16TB-20TB drive then. That would only cost you as much as those two overpriced 4TB drives.

I generally prefer to not get shit in my mouth at all but you do you.

No that’s the trick: Mozilla corp is for-profit.

Specifically this section:

Why is Magic Earth free? What is the business model?

Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.

after a week of runtime it told me 2.5kwh average. could be average per hour

If it gives you kWh as a measure for power, you should toss it because it’s obviously made by someone who had no idea what they were doing.

If this was over an hour, yes. Though you’d typically state it as 100W ;)

I was drawing an average of 2.5kWh after a week of monitoring my whole rack

That doesn’t seem right; that’s only ~18W. Each one of those systems alone will exceed that at idle running 24/7. I’d expect 1-2 orders of magnitude more.

Is that built-in, or do you have to configure it yourself

It’s the official bang for Startpage. You can’t configure custom bangs in DDG; Kagi can do that.

I agree, which is why I’ve been happy to continue using DDG.

I’ve found DDG/bing’s results to be quite lacking.

If I can’t find something I can just add a quick !g to my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.

Yeah I used to do the same (but with !s).

It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though. Kagi uses the Google index and a few others and you have your own filtering and ranking on top.

In the beginning I felt tempted to do !s a few times too but the results were always worse, so I quickly unlearned doing that.

Executing bangs is also a lot quicker with Kagi; DDG is kind of a slog.

Ecosia being any better in this regard would be news to me. They also rely on ads for funding.

Oh they’ve been getting worse for sure but Bing is still worse. I’ve used the Bing index via DuckDuckGo for years and it’s quite bad.

I now use Kagi which uses both Google and Bing indices (among others) and it’s much better and I think most of that is because the Google index is used.

Have you heard of peertube?

It’s slightly overkill for your purposes but it is basically a self-hosted Youtube with a similarly nice UI and everything.

Oh great, shitty bing search results with tree NFTs.

Without knowing what you’ll use it for, neither.

Both don’t sound ideal though w.r.t. power consumption.

Your image doesn’t load for me.

Oh absolutely; I would never advocate against verifying your data’s integrity.

I think I’d split that into two machines; a low power 24/7 server and a on-demand gaming machine. Performance and power savings don’t go well together; high performance machines usually have quite high idle power consumption.

It’d also be more resilient; if you mess up your server, it won’t take your gaming machine with it and vice versa.

putting all the components together to be a step up in complexity too, when compared to going pre-built. For someone who is comfortable with building their own PC I would definitely recommend doing that

I’d recommend that to someone who doesn’t know how to build a PC because everyone should learn how to do it and doing it for the first time with low-cost and/or used hardware won’t cause a great financial loss should you mess up.

Interesting. I suspect you must either have had really bad luck or be using faulty hardware.

In my broad summarising estimate, I only accounted for relatively modern disks like something made in the past 5 years or so. Drives from the 2000s or early 2010s could be significantly worse and I wouldn’t be surprised. It sounds like to me your experience was with drives that are well over a decade old at this point.