Closed sauce app isn’t always better, and big corp don’t have ‘all stars’ teams (but do have marketing teams) - the question is why the fossy app doesn’t change UI design every few months (mostly in stupid ways) :D.

So eloquently put & efficiently communicated, I only wish I could be that articulated with words.

They textured instead of polygoned/tessellated/bumpmapped. The 2D doesn’t logically match the 3D. Idk, it’s weird, like a hasty remaster where they applied some general rules/scripts instead of doing the work.

It won’t ever shut up (brainhole adhd).

It’s more what triggers the few seconds of quiet I get blessed with every few moons.

Lol, they fucked a perfectly fine river :(

Perfect.

Lawns were always a mistake by human hubris & greed.

Smort, containment protocols probably grew over the years with each deadly containment breach they had.

Why my food on fire?

Is this mythology? :P
Server stuff is unusual and mysterious, rare, and expensive - I get the allure.

I like your second point (tho wouldn’t say a lot, most of us just want services at home + ProxMox or even Linux in general isn’t the most common hypervisor to learn for getting a job in like mid-sized companies), but for the rest - PC can take loads just as well as enterprise/server, this isn’t the 90s or early 2000s when you eg got shitty capacitors on even the best consumer mobos. Your average second gen Core PC could run non-stop since it’s birth to today.
The exception are hard drives, which homelabbers buy enterprise anyways.
BTW - who has their home lab on full load all the time (not sarcasm, actually asking for usecases)?

The rest is just additional equipment one might need or might not. A second CPU slot is irrelevant when buying old servers, ram slots need to be filled to even take advantage of the extra lanes of server CPUs and even then older tech might still be slower than dual channel ddr5, drive bays are cheap to buy … but if you want nicely looking hot-swappable PSU then you need a server/workstation case.

Server vs consumer CPUs mostly differ in how well they can parallelize tasks, mostly by having more cores and more lanes. But if a modern CPU core outclases older server CPU cores like 10:1 that logic just doesn’t add up anytime. Both do the same work.

Imho old servers aren’t super cheap but are priced accordingly.

I think this whole debate consumer vs enterprise hardware (except hard drives ofc) can be summed in a proxy question of - do homelabbers need registered ECC RAM?

Sounds nice, but yes, uses quite a bit of power.

I should measure mine - I have a Ryzen 5900 (24t, 64MB … some 20k cinebench score) as the main, and a Core 12700 (16+4t, 12MB).
(And Intel gen 7 and 2 at my patents. All of them proxmoxed.)

Never ever managed to bottleneck anything on them, not really, but got them super cheap used.

Buying anything server/enterprise that powerful would cost me a lot of moneys. And prob have two CPUs which doubles a lot of power hungry bits.

Isn’t that a bit like buying an old truck instead of a year old Miata?

Afaik those CPUs use so much juice when idling … sure, you dont get all them lanes or ECC, but a PC at the same price with a few year old CPU outclasses that CPU by a lot & at a fraction of the running cost (also quietly).

Just something to keep in mind as an alternative, especially when you don’t intend to fill all the pcie bussy (several users with several intensive tasks that benefit from wider bus to RAM & PCI even with a slow CPU).
Ok, and you miss out on some fancy admin stuff, but … it’s just for home use …

to shrink reliance on Big Tech

Right there in the title

No need to thank me, thank her for being, and you for sharing the pic :).

The PACs alone spent like a billon or whatever, that def wasn’t free for neither candidate.

I would love a floating skull

Such an elegant lady!! <3

Ohh, they weren’t CPUs? (like in >!Hyperion cantos!< by Dan Simmons)

I prob just assumed it/headcanoned it bcs just the batteries is ofc stupid.

would kill people

(Crashing your “computer” doesn’t usually fry your CPU, just crashes the software, nor does 100% CPU load necessarily crash your PC, just keep the CPU cool and within safe amperage/voltage specs)

Yes! But they have spares, and hot & cold redundancies. Just wait for the reboot, the robots do all the admin work (wait, the Matrix robots are not furries? Another stupid script inconsistency/decision!)

And now try with a bit less cheese/a smaller ass.
You gotta find a spot that those brainholes can still process in real time - it’s not just the point to see at what size your butt crashes the system, but also to see what’s the max butt size you it can still successfully process twerking - the true cosmic clappening.

Imagine billions of people thinking at 100% capacity about every detail of your butt.

Well, that’s a challenging Linux install.

It will however run Doom as is.

Um, it’s called sparkly commercials if it’s from capitalism, it’s only propaganda if it’s from the province of communism.