I lost track and had to abandon reading it. Meandering rambling.

Yes.

They do. But I have seen a lot of nasty divorced couples, that made me realize most adults are still kids. 🙁

I can’t answer directly but have seen some instances with a family member, and a stranger. Family member: stayed friends and once in a while them and their spouse have dinner with the ex.

Strangers: i saw a family at the doctors office. Daughter and Mom and Step Dad, then Biological Dad showed up. They all got on really well, and the StepDad and Dad talked about getting together for some BBQ Salmon and beer one day.

Some seem to show a lot of grace, in what could have been awkward dynamics

I’m running an early version of that on a 16 year old ARM board NAS, the NAS has 256MB of RAM and OpenMediaVault runs great on it.

Lol

I had a Sony CD walkman, a later model with read ahead buffer. It did OK for normal walking.

You take it with you like the good old days

Bloat is relative, I guess.

If you are doing some gaming maybe try Bazzite, it will come setup for the hardware option you choose. Good place to start before jumping right into arch

Yes. Some people are just assholes and don’t care what they say or do. Online anonymity let’s people who are too afraid of consequences (in real life) be assholes too.

My wife and windows could not get along, to many inconsistencies. I set up a repeatable comfig NixOS for her with GNOME. She now never complains about the computer, since it is always the same.

Chatgpt is normal, maybe a bit too casual lately. Responses now are "IKR classic (software brand) doing that crazy thing they are known for”.

But my last Copilot interaction was copilot being a passive aggressive dick in responses.

Yes. Your body would panic immediately.

I’m sure the sleeping in the bath problem would be a sudden awakening when you take your first gulp of water…but a person who’s had a lot to drink may not wake up

I found that the shiny black chrome looking disks seemed to be better than the purple tint kind. Chemically different media. Its anecdotal, not a scientific tested theory

For more money and wasted power. People overbuild quite often.

Oui, Oui.

My pi gets 81MB/s non cache HDD read speed over USB.

With an msata SSD into a USB adapter if gets non cache read speed of 437MB/s

I totally get that doesn’t compete with a pcie slot msata or nvme.

But it significantly improves access time and transfer.

OPs request was could they do it with pis. Yes you could. HDD is max 120mbs, with SSD over USB interface you get a lot more even thought its not running on the pcie bus. It is totally functional as long as you aren’t streaming 4k to your TV. And it is more than enough for most people. As a reliable backup solution it works, but best if you use a drive enclosure that is powered, rather than relying on the USB power of the drive adapter.

You seem irrationally irked about a viable suggestion, to OPs orignal question. Sorry if I triggered your inner nerd 😀

PS. I’m not talking getting nvme speeds on USB, I’m saying if you use an msata ssd you get tons more bandwidth on USB than HDD

I think you missed the part about me saying older Pi, being cheap. Like you can pickup a pi3b for $35 where as I’d have to pay $150-180 for a pi5. People get focused on hardware that is overkill for their needs (especially if you track access and system load). You can probably get a deal on an old thinclient or nuc also. Its good to show people options.

For example I have a 15 year old arm board with 256mb non expandable RAM. (Dedtined for the garbage dump) with debian It handles music streaming and samba shares perfectly fine with an SSD. And doesn’t even use 50% of the RAM.