Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine…

My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost ‘free’. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.

Any quality brand SSD (Samsung, Kingston, WD, etc) is going to be more reliable in every way compared to mechanical disks, they just cost a lot more right now. Do NOT buy off brand, random Chinese SSD, you will regret it.

When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 ‘premium’ for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.

Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I’m very happy with the choice.

We let our bananas get ripe until they’re about to liquify and toss them whole in the freezer. When we have enough we take the black turds out and thaw them in a bowl. When thawed cut the tip open and squeeze out the condensed banana goodness like toothpaste. It’s gross but it makes next level banana bread. Use Joanne Chang’s recipe, its the best.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/flours-famous-banana-bread-recipe-2015076

I bought all the gear to do 10gbe but ultimately went back to 1gig simply because the power consumption. The switch alone used 20w at idle and each NIC burned 8w and I couldn’t justify it.

So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.

As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily…steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don’t seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. If you don’t upload new photos via photoprism using WebDAV you have to make your own scripts to watch for changes and refresh which took a lot of time for me to setup.

I’m just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.

Most folks ignore laptops, but if you’re OK with USB storage or getting the special caddy to install the internal 2.5" drive you can get great deals on laptops. This one idles around 4W with the screen off.

Status symbol and to project a personality.

Well incompetentboob, let me tell you. You will short and blow the voltage supply on the motherboard and take that port out of service.

You have to park in a garage and walk down a narrow path lined with people trying to sell you shit. Its more like visiting a mall with aggressive salesmen than a national park. It was the worst stop I made during a cross country road trip.

I use Ruffle on my personal domain to host my college flash web page again. I made the super Mario world map into a web page for an internet gaming group on campus and spent way too much time doing it. I was delighted I could host it again.

For anyone that cares

Needing something is one thing, tax payer subsidies is another topic entirely. State tax payers have now all chipped in for these Data centers and the question is was it worth it for them.

Required course work for electrical engineers in the early 2000s.

Those leaves look too light green, the plant is stressed. How often do you water the plant and how much do you give it? What is your metric for ‘enough’? Do you let water sit in that tray? I would just start by watering it 1/3 as much as you currently do and see how it goes, the leaves will wilt if you are stressing it due to lack of water but in my experience cannabis can handle serious drought stress, they’re champs.

Just a heads up I grow mostly vegetables, have been an avid gardener for over 15 years so my advice will be generic and not specific to growing cannabis. In general I think cannabis growers over think something that is much simpler than it seems. After growing veggies for so long, I found that cannabis is so laughably easy to grow, its ridiculously robust, will handle all kinds of abuse and grows incredibly fast. Here is the little beast I grew two years ago

You mentioned you put them outside, how long ago? Did you re-pot them when you put them outside? They will need time to establish bigger roots when you replant them. Are you growing anything else outside that is doing well or just the cannabis? A picture of the leaves will tell a better story, green has lots of shades and a light green means stress. If you gave it lots of nutrients and you got no response that is bad, either you will over feed it and stress it out (Very hard in my experience) or it will take it up and burst into growth. What this tells me is your plant CANT take up the feed in the soil because the dirt is too wet. How often do you water the plant and do you check the soil to ensure its dry before watering? Has it rained a lot? Over-watered dirt will kill your plant because it cannot get the nutrients it needs, it needs to be damp but NOT wet or the roots aren’t effective.

I use the onboard CPU of my ryzen 5600g for my jellyfin and nextcloud (memories app) duties and it works flawless.

May or may not be an option for you but buy any camera that supports rtsp, only allow that traffic from their network through and block everything else. Works fine for me and my Amcrest cameras. You could accomplish this with a pi and a USB network card and some basic iptables.