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I dont think extra traffic to one website would be that significant and I dont think there are enough Steam Decks out there

If it helped significantly then either there are a lot fewer computer users that I thought, or your parents visit a LOT if websites.

I'm very excited for when it's finally ready. It feels like a long wait, but I'm sure it'll be worth it and there's a lot to check to make sure it's stable enough for prime time.

If it has gone from 3% to 4% that would mean there are 33% more linux users and just don't see that as being true. That's the kind of increase you would definitely notice if you're the kind of person who hangs around linux haunts on the internet.

That was the reason I lost my job as an A&E doctor

The ID badge is actually for his balls, not him.

I've been using Lychee for photo sharing with family for the past few months. Works really quickly, simply, plus it looks good.

I probably have more accessible from outside than not. Many are required: hosting a website, a media server I can access from anywhere outside the house, my phone system, etc. Some I used to use more than I do now: podcast service, that sort of thing. Then a bunch that are internal only. My phone connects home over Wireguard so that's pretty convenient when out and about for accessing internal only systems.

As soon as you have a requirement for large reliable storage then you're on to at least the small desktop arena with a few HDD at which point it's more efficient to just have the small pc and ditch the RPI.

Depends where you draw the line of the home lab. I'm drawing 160W at the moment, but that includes a dedicated CCTV PC (running Proxmox in a cluster) and POE switch. The CCTV I don't consider part of the home lab really, the alternative would be an off the shelf box and no one would consider that.

The 160W also includes a 24 port switch (I'm only using 8) and the FTTP power, plus the rake from the UPS. So probably total the actual homelab server would be about 80-100, I guess. But even then it runs my router using opnsense, so I don't have a separate router box to power. It also serves as my "cloud" storage, so I'm not saving watts, but I'm saving the cost there.

I could get the power down quite a bit by changing the 6 HDD for 2 mirrored HDD, but the cost of large enough disks means it'd be years before it paid for itself, so I'm sticking with 6 small disks for now.

I've thought about trimming things down and going lower powered, but it all comes back to storage and needing the large storage online all the time.

Plus I consider a 100W a big saving when before I ran a dual Xeon Dell R710 which used around 225W under the same workload.

I use clonezilla at work for imaging and deploying laptops. It works like a charm. Great piece of software. It's not normal backup software though.

Deleting your account doesnt delete your content AFAIK.