The CPU may not use too much power, but the chipset and all the supporting circuitry will. Supporting 4/8channel memory aint free. And RAM can use a ton of power too.

Not with TrueNAS, ZFS is a RAM hog. They suggest 8gb minimum, and you really don’t want the minimum AND adding more stuff on top. That said 16gb isn’t too painful.

If you want a NAS on the cheap my preference is just get any cheap “normal” PC, a case with a good amount of HDD bays. Move the drives into the PC, and you have all the expand ability you could dream of. You can find plenty of DDR4 machines for cheap now. Then as ram prices come down you can go up to 128gb of ram as long as your board has 4 slots.

Anything on craigslist/FB marketplace will work.

Knowing for certain that stuff is gonna get deleted is a good way to get me to never use your service.

The models that the commercial AIs use are not at all usable on consumer grade hardware. The RTX pro 6000 has 96 gigs of vram, your GPU probably had 8.

I’ve played with the models that run on 16 gigs and it’s alright. But I wouldn’t even try fully vibe coding. Need some help with something small? Sure. But I wouldn’t have it try to make a finished product.

What whack ass setup so you think OP has? Dual 5090s? They’re running it on an i7.

Ideally see if you can do a battery charge limit. Lithium batteries are happiest around 40-60% charge. If you can limit it that low then you keep your built in UPS, don’t risk the CPU running at a crawl, and the battery is happy. Even just the normal 80% that good laptops offer will be sufficient.

What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.

I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.

My dynamic IP almost never changes. I’ve had 3 in the last 10 years. How often does yours change?

There’s also dynamic dns if yours changes often.

Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.

Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.

VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?

Also ZFS.

With how Lemmy handles deleted posts (and nuking access to the comments) I’m probably gonna make my own removeddit for Lemmy.

No, not at all. Any data that is federated out assume it’s impossible to delete. Sure you can delete stuff from the original server, but will the federated ones obey the request? Or even get the request in the first place?

Nothing you post on social media should have any expectation of privacy.

How does piefed treat them differently?

Wireguard + OpenVPN works well for me.

OpenVPN fully supports multiple simultaneous connections. But Wireguard is such a pain in the ass with this. But Wireguard dgaf about OpenVPN connections.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP

You don’t have to route all traffic through the VPN. Only traffic for your home network.

A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

Namecheap has random number only xyz domains for like a dollar so I have one of those.

Also usually cheaper components.

ITX boards tend to cost more than bigger boards, you’re limited to one slot, and usually the cases are super limited in size for heatsinks or other stuff.