That’s still a 5W difference.

I have other devices like a TV that require 1-2W when they are in standby/shut off.

OP’s number is way to low. The power supplys conversion loss itself will already be a few watts.

Ok so I don’t quite understand why self hosting makes the situation better:

Turns out once you’ve played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can’t use more than 2 cores

Ok so you will have the same problem when hosting it on a dedicated server…

Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD

Are you telling me that the old HP SFF has more performance than your wife’s PC?

I also don’t quite understand what using a dedicated server has to do with FPS because server calculations should usually not impact this expect when the game’s code is utter garbage and it performs server calculations on the rendering thread…

I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.

Let’s assume that server somehow requires 1kWh per day (which is quite a lot). That would be around 30ct per day here in Europe which is like $10 a month. So not sure if your server was constantly running at 200W or your power plugs are coated with gold…

That’s what you see further to the back by the wall (50€ used, Fritz!Box 7510). Unfortunately, it only comes with one (1!!!) singular LAN port, so I had to buy a switch for 5 LAN ports in total (another 12€) which is sufficient for all the devices we use at home.

7510 is an extremely bad router, it doesn’t even have 5Ghz WiFi which is like standard for 10 years now. The router is your core access to the internet. Saving money in this place is definitely the wrong choice. You could have gotten a used 7520/7530 (has 4x LAN and proper 5 GhZ WiFi) for like 10€ more and wouldn’t require the 12€ switch…

You should maybe do more research before doing stuff in the future…

Relevant section of the article: Denazification#End

Ok not sure how such a post got so many upvotes…

She has not really much to do with open source or at least that’s not verifiable anywhere:

• no recent activity on GitHub
• A total of 5 commits on Codeberg… about designing an USB stick

Also she was active on Mastodon 3 days ago.

This person most likely is spontaneously disconnected from the net. Maybe the internet is down at her location because lightning fried the router, maybe she fell down the stairs and is in hospital, maybe she’s on vacation or - after having read through the about site - got some mental help, because not blocking and posting about people that send you creepy text messages to give them a wider platform is itself weird…

Who knows?

But starting a search on all social media will likely not bring them back either.

Maybe contact their family or other friends or visit them, I think that would be a lot more productive.

Laughs in JVM (but there’s like 1 game using it so…)

If you’re not living in USA-land you’re probably fine to simply change the battery every few years because you’ve got a photoelectric smoke detector.

Ionization based smoke detectors (that require changing because radioactive…) are more unsafe and usually only allowed in special cases in non third world countries like the EU.

Oh and you also can’t just throw them into the trash because you know radioactivity… except in USA-land…

New chargers and cables = New freedom units to measure stuff with

Voice chat works out of the box with Matrix.

It uses WebRTC and tries to do P2P connections. Note that this leaks your IP to the other caller and vice versa, but it’s also quite fast as you can establish a direct connection.

If P2P fails it will try to fallback to your configured TURN server and use that one for relaying.

However not every instance has one (as TURN servers are usually not that modern and straight forward…) and if this is the case it will fallback to Matrix’s global TURN servers.

If it’s just chatting with your use case: definetly yes

synapse and element/schildi-chat work quite well for me :)

On mobile the newer Element X clients usually lack some features (like calls) but you can use them quite well for chatting.

Matrix hoster here.

I would recommend Matrix as it has pretty much everything, including cross platform clients, threads, voice/video calls, screensharing, spaces (aka servers), federation and E2EE. Matrix also has bridges for Discord and pretty much every other service so this could ease transition…

But self hosting requires reading the docs and having some in depth knowledge and understanding as it can be quite complex.

I would recommend just creating a Matrix account on one of the common global servers and testing it.

If you want to self-host there are some pre-defined setups available (example) but I would still recommend to bring at least 5-10 hours.

Regarding operations: It’s really resilient and barely ever breaks and also doesn’t need a lot of resources. A 1-2vCPU server with under 1GB RAM server is enough for less than 10 people.

https://newpipe.net/

Look at “Supported Services”

I probably found the answer faster than the time required for you to write the question.

Maybe do a basic search before asking questions.

I will probably never understand why people buy extremely expensive, locked down hardware and then forcibly open it up after 2 years.

How about stop shoving them money up their asses and buy a laptop from another manufacturer where you don’t have to sell your soul to install Linux.

PCs/Laptops are not the console market where there are just like 2 options available.

As long as Apple makes money with this shit, this madness will NEVER stop.

Okay, not sure how snow is news to 200 people or relevant in the first place…

Well I didn’t know about that before, so thank you for the information :)

Your system sounds a bit complex when compared to the German one. For comparison here in Germany we basically have 3 important documents:

• The ID card that you get as a citizen. You can use it inside the country for basically all govermental buisness or to travel freely in the EU/Schengen area.
• The more powerful (and expensive) passport that you usually only needed when travelling abroad
• Drivers license - that you can also get when you’re not a citizen

So if you’re an immigrant/not a citizen you basically can’t have an ID card or passport and get a temporary residence card instead.

Just FYI - outside of the US bubble - an identity card is standard in most countries.

Not sure what this sentence means, but feel free to use pigeons instead.

When you’re getting notifications/newsletters from legitimate platforms like e.g. Amazon or GitHub it’s smarter to unsubscribe from these specific mails. Otherwise you will be screwed when some important mail somehow ends up in the spam folder.