we appear to be the first to write up the outrage coherently too. much thanks to the illustrious @self
the backups is good advice. I need to put in a second drive and work out how to make it keep a backup. I’m learning all that as I go.
As for power draw, I only turn it on when I need it and it’s not connected to a display - just ssh-ing into it, so hopefully not wasting too much juice.
older-era computers aren’t all great on power. the different between something like a c2d and i3 was immense. it’s still absolutely fucking mental how little power the apple arm shit draws (for what it does). something like a kill-a-watt or so would be the easiest to do some measurement
I’ll hit you up elsewhere a bit later and share some ideas for backup :)
It had an i3 which I bumped up to an i5-750 (it only cost 4 euros) but it’s socket 1156 era, so probably still rather inefficient compared to recent gens, right?
I’ll hit you up elsewhere a bit later and share some ideas for backup :)
thanks! that would be great. I already have a NAS with redundancy for my important stuff, but I’m starting to build a large archive of downloaded youtube videos for research projects and I would hate to lose them.
