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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That point was passed decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

How much is a kWh in your parts? Noise, ambient temperature? You can buy very decent refurbished Lenovo tiny PCs with some 16 GB RAM and 6 cores and half a TB SSD which will run Proxmox and are low power and noise. You can go multi-node Proxmox later if you want to expand. k8s and related are also an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DIY few kWp solar payback is about 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In Germany consumer power is something like 0.4 EUR/kWh, so economics of running power-hungry hardware might be different. Solar PV might change the equation once again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks, that direct link works. Probably image replication issues to the other instances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Images don't load for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

It sound impressive, until you read it's Las Vegas. In places like Germany you have several weeks per year with neither enough sun nor wind. With backup power like gas turbines which run few weeks per year you have to subsidize the operators. And if you want run them on green hydrogen, massively overbuild the renewable capacity so that you can fill up gas storage during summertime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Gmail is way more reliable than anything I could self-host. It's a huge pile of unsorted junk that is only usable with search.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The alarmists are right. There is nothing we can do: we're past peak extraction, and the peak is asymmetrical, so decline is fast. So a double shit sandwich: we cook and we starve, without any petro benefits. As a dingleberry on top you can add on wars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

To get that feeling back, have a go at https://richardcrim.substack.com/ That will add more nuance, and then some.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We are at over +1.5 if you ignore sliding decade average and multiple factors make +3 by 2050 reasonably likely. We got there because we erred on the side of climate sensitivity due to people like you, who told us disregard the "alarmists" and tnat we have plenty of time to act. Well, it looks like the "alarmists" were right.

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