It explained to me what that was, so I’m okay with it ;)

For anyone else confused: https://the-well-heeled.com/twh-explains-what-is-a-heel-counter-and-why-you-need-to-know/ (random google result)

given the target (admins of small instances)

Seems like an even smaller target for now, admins of small instances who run local communities with enough content they need automod:

At the moment the AutoMod works solely on local communities.

My last intel MB had 2 CPUs on it (the latest of those and the MB are now used by my wife), then I switched CPU and MB to AMD in 2019, a few years ago I switched only the main board from B to X. There’s always something to change ;)

Because it’s also only the size of about a small box, fits into my living room cupboard, and is quiet, passively cooled.

If you need a high-powered server, sure. But that tiny server is idling the majority of the time, and never even gets busy, we are only 2 people using it, and something like storage uses next to CPU resources.

And it’s not as if I waste my computer, I just ship of theseus it over the years.

$1000 could power this server for literally years

That really depends on a lot of things, including how recent and thus efficient it is. (Edit: For example, my computer right now, but with 2 27 WQHD attached, is already using 180W, the most power-draining thing I have opened is a twitch stream)

Germany was at the very top of most expensive electricity lists several times :( A lot of it is taxes.

I upgraded from an RX 470 to an RX 6600 last year (only playing on WQHD though), for anything but action games, which I don’t like, that’s easily powerful enough. I’ll happily take better iGPU (lack of upgradability would require that to be really powerful, though), but I see no reason to stick them into a tiny case, if anything that would be a switch from midi-tower to mini-tower. After all, I still need space to connect everything. That works with me just having replaced my 2 last 3.5 HDDs (1TB + 0.5TB) with a single 2TB SSD.

My desktop will become my server

Tell me that you have affordable electricity without telling me you have affordable electricity
– J4125 dual-SSD 4W power usage server owner paying 0.4 € per kWh.

I would, but in my rush to buy a cheap one (OnePlus Nord), I forgot to check. Luckily, it’s also rather rare I need them, so I bought some even cheaper Lenovo Pro in-ears from AliExpress for 8€ which, while annoying, are acceptable for what little I need. Luckily, my computer both has proper speakers and a headphone jack.

Part of the reason is that I generally hate having to charge things. My keyboard is wired, my mouse is wireless but permanently connected via a woven USB cable.

I don’t actually care about vertical tabs, perfectly happy with them being at the top. My taskbar makes sense to be vertical, I only need icons. But for tabs, I want the title text (besides a few pinned tabs), vertically that takes up way too much space.

Can’t speak much about some web app performance (which also has a chance of simply being chrome-optimized) as I don’t do much with complex web apps, preferring desktop software.

Yeah, I can barely remember using Chrome ;)

Firefox ever since Quantum which was when it finally became as performant as chrome for my usage again.

I used to check it out every 1-2 years in the hopes that it improved, and it was never good enough for me, before that.

My impression: They are authoritan fascists in favor of Russia taking over Ukraine and China taking over Taiwan, no matter what happens to the people or who gets murdered. I’ve read that they are leftists, but I have seen nothing pointing towards that before I defederated from them.

I’m guessing that was Lufthansa. My dad used to get tons of miles from work flights. But I was 8 or 10 years old, so I wouldn’t bet money on it.

Nah, but there are also almost no products with it, so I don’t see it as an issue. Or are you talking about some specific country where it is?

• Buster is open source, it requires some speech recognition cloud API Key, most providers have free tiers.
• NopeCHA technically has a free tier, but they block people as VPNs and seem generally very scummy. Your choice.

Nah, I even use bots to solve them, they are better & faster than humans.

Jericho was awesome, didn’t know it was treated like that.

I’m also in Germany, I can believe that the law would make issues ;) This building is from the 60s (making it one of the newer ones), there is no way they are getting upgraded with something like that. OTOH ZigBee + HA works perfectly without deep integration.

Great for people owning houses, not so much for renters