Hard Pass

r/AskReddit had a thread that asked how people thought the trump administration would end. I have never seen so many [Post removed by Reddit] notifications. I complained that not being able to threaten violence against these TEMU Nazis was just enabling them. Yeah...

I appealed, because, Show me where exactly I actually made a"credible threat of violence" BRUH. I was just complaining that I couldn't, not saying I was going to. FFS. (I EVEN POINTED OUT THIS DISTINCTION IN THE POST!!) 12+ fucking years. Over 53K in comment karma. Poof.

So I did research to find alts for Ye olde Reddits and this place seemed to be the most recommended. So here I am! The real pisser is that I mostly used reddit to interact with the minecraft/hermitcraft fandoms, and was a member in (VERY) good standing in those communities. Reddit is going to hell in a handbasket and it's infuriating to watch. It used to be so lovely to post there, but this over reliance on AI moderation is going to be the death of it. Especially on the more political side of it.

Anyway, I hope this place works out better.

Context: In Islam people must be identified by their paternal lineage, meaning one's patronym/last name/however their culture identifies paternal ancestry must tie to their father. This is because the Quran says "call them by the names of their fathers" (Quran 33:5), and while the verse was talking about adoption the principle is unanimously interpreted to apply in general.

Fuck all nation states.

Now playing MC Hammer - Can't Touch This

Affiliation up front: I built this, the data is open (CC BY 4.0), no signup, not selling anything.

What pushed me to make it: when you're choosing the box your self-hosted services run on 24/7, the number that decides the power bill is measured idle watts, and nobody prints it. Spec sheets list TDP, which is a thermal rating for sizing a cooler, not actual draw. The same Dell OptiPlex Micro chassis idles around 11W with a 35W-TDP "T" chip vs around 18W with a 65W-TDP desktop chip, and at roughly $1/W/year (US) or $2.50/W/year (EU) that gap adds up over the life of an always-on server.

So I aggregated 51 boxes into one filterable table built around the facts that actually decide a self-host box: measured idle (wall-metered, with the method noted), the 2.5GbE chipset (i226-V is fine, i225-V has the documented random-dropout bug that takes a headless box offline until a hard reset), ECC support, RAM ceiling, and IOMMU / GPU-passthrough notes for anyone running VMs. Every field is cited to a dated source or left blank, never guessed.

Finder: https://idlewatt.vercel.app/ Open dataset (CC BY, pull it or send corrections / new wall-meter readings as PRs): https://github.com/SolvoHQ/homelab-mini-pc-dataset

What are you running your stack on, and does anyone have measured-idle numbers for a box I'm missing?

Hi all,

I want to spin up a small home server. Nothing crazy, maybe 4 or 8GB ram at most. 1 Docker instance running a few privacy frontends (Invidious, Redlib, Xcancel, SearxNG, etc.) and split tunneling VPN connections for each one.

Obviously, a Raspberry Pi 4 or higher is the internet's favorite choice, but I don't need wireless connectivity, I just need a single HDMI and 2 USB ports to get everything set up, one ethernet port, and a dream in my heart.

Has anyone use alternatives like Le Potato or Orange Pi? I'm curious what their community support is like, and if there's a FOSS-friendly standard.

Thanks!

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Fun fact: this post inspired me to make an account.

(I use they/them IRL)