You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.

Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.

Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.

Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.

GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.

Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.

The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.

And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?

My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.

One person ignoring the statistics offered by another to roll in the manure of their own smugness.

These drugs already exist. But they have a bunch of side effects.

Rebound effects from thinking you can eat more because of the drugs and fat stool are the most obvious ones.

Yeah, that’s bullshit.

Poverty isn’t exactly helping, but there are more than enough people with enough resources and excessive body weight.

In the US, ¾ of the population is overweight, are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?

I used to be fat. It’s not a monetary issue. In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money.

Just ask anyone with gallbladder problems…

If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.

I get what you’re trying to say, but I’m not sure it makes sense.

I mean, that’s literally every field you’re not an expert in. And most of us are experts in less than one field.

You don’t know about medicine, car engines, electricity or tax laws, you have your guys for that. Even in our field, we have guys for databases, OSes, networking, because quite frankly nobody understands those really.

So I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. That having experts is good? Yeah, I guess? Did we need to have that reinforced?

Damnit, that’s exactly the joke I wanted to make.

I’m not sure what these things have to do with each other. How exactly would cryptography have prevented SBF, you know, a crypto bro.

God I hate cryptography so much for making me feel stupid every time I read anything about it.

I want to feel smat!

Well in that case…

I never understood why people do that.

Here in Germany this was always reported as “look at those crazy idiots”.

And who cares about that?

I mean in reality. Will that be enforced? Isn’t there some loophole, where this technically isn’t the same article because they took it off the shop for an hour?

See, if you would have read my comment and actually bothered to understand it, you would have seen, that I haven’t said no one is at fault here.

So I have to assume, you’re arguing in bad faith, you’re putting words in my mouth to defeat a straw man, while not addressing any of my actual points.

So maybe pull that infantile sarcasm out of your ass and try actually thinking about what you’re saying.

Will you categorically stomp your foot and ignore every single argument in that comment as well? Because you’re almost there!

Blaming consumers for things that happen at least three indirections removed from them is childish. A consumer cannot know where all the resources are coming from.

Blaming EVs for this, is just as childish, if not actively evil, since the alternative would be oil extraction and that’s not exactly clean and happy either.

The idea is that women are afraid not to have children at all and get emergency children before 30.

That this will turn women into breeding and child caring machines has the nice side effects that you not only get a bunch of women who don’t have time for education, and thus more job security for me men, and it keeps them at home, so you don’t need child care facilities.

So all in all a great step forward into the 1920!

Yeah, but that’s the thing: it’s not fast. And that’s actually even more baffling.

All those rewrites cost money. All the shoddy software somewhere in the background of every corporation was written using these shitty libraries, frameworks, APIs. And that means cost.

I’m explicitly not talking about the newest crap Amazon or Google push, they operate under different principles, I’m talking about the data plumbing stuff. The eight billion Spring Boot apps, the PHP sites, the Python pipelines.

Writing and deploying a simple CRUD app, that just takes data from a request and saves it into a DB should be done in a few minutes. The actual “payload” is just input schema, DB schema, transformation rules, maybe auth. That’s it. However, if you want to do that in Spring Boot and K8s, it takes often hours or days to get everything right. Not because Spring Boot is hard, but because you forget a network policy in Helm or the dateformat between JSON/Java/DB is different or that library is outdated or there’s CVE somewhere or you have to look up that shitty mappedBy thingy from Hibernate again (that’s maybe just my problem, I can’t remember that crap) etc. etc. etc.

The basic problem behind is, that we have to take care of so much. Network, business logic, framework detail. You have hardly any layer or platform that is really solid.