Tell it to diesel propelled wind turbines.

No, wind turbines are not providers of base power. Wind is not guaranteed. Not in every case.

Solar is not a provider of base energy loads.

Lol,

Batteries are perfect for load balancing.

Please, know your facts

Total is $398 bundle with lower end fan. It is comparable.

The choice will be driven by hardware characteristics for me. Power vs performance questions. If performance is roughly the same, then I will prefer lower power consumption.

A few years from now we may be seeing US tariffs on these just like EVs today.

China is developing fast and it took US trade war seriously.

A couple generations don’t mean much anymore.

Performance gains have been slow.

I’d rather understand where exactly is its performance in comparison to AMD and Intel.

Then I can make a call if it is worth it.

After all there’s plenty of Raspberry Pi level performance and people are happy with it as long as price is right.

Give us some links for combo of motherboard, CPU and fan. I assume it needs a fan.

Mine lasted for years as far as battery is concerned.

Unfortunately the loudness level has dropped significantly. I went to Apple store and they acknowledged this as that’s what happens to them.

Eventually I gave up and replaced with alternative lower cost similar style headphones. The sound level is plenty, but microphone is terrible. I tried several and found I found similar problems. It is acceptable for much lower cost, but doesn’t compare.

Only 20% is natural ingredients. 80% is processed foods. Typical futile attempt to eat healthy. Terrible diet.

Russia captured it.

It was heavily fortified and lots of Ukrainian lives were lost.

Top Ukrainian officer lied. Russia took Avdiivka.

Any US Media is taken by US propaganda bots. Watch my comment go into negative territory.

Freedom of speech means go listen to the other side and form your opinion.

1 billion people did it across the globe.

You should if you want to form your opinion.

This is a major reason to use simpler technology.

I can’t help you, but i had a similar experience with similar technology. I spent lots of time recovering content. I succeeded, but i have software development experience. I didn’t want a repeat of that.

In the end I picked windows file sharing for home networking and filebrowser for occasional access to data files from outside of home networking.

Web dav is a very good alternative. Apache web server will be easier, but nginx can be made to work.

Joplin is another good alternative, which is based on web dav.

You can pay around $2-$3 a month to shared services provider for hosted web dav.

You can pay for dreamhost, namecheap or any other shared hosting plan that provides WebDAV. Some provide unlimited storage. I am not sure how realy unlimited it is.

Buy domain and host empty website. Turn on ssl using hosting tools. Dreamhost provides you with free certificate for that. Namecheap charges after 1st year.

Create directory on the website using hosting tools and turn on webdav on that directory. It can be password protected. Turn on password protection and disable public access using hosting tools.

That will give you a disk that can be mounted on Windows, Linux or mac without additional software. On iOS you will need an app like OwlFiles. You will have access to it From home or coffee shop. Anywhere. It will act as your remote storage and you can access it using Explorer or Finder. Most tools will read content of remote disk without any restrictions.

Create another directory and leave public access to have public sharing directory only you can change (keep passwords).

Create another directory or use one of your private subdirectory with application Joplin and you get free and open source notes and todo system. That system can encrypt all your notes with master password. I recommend it: https://joplinapp.org

The might be other apps…

Can you drop a link? It is best if it is Arch linux link. Thanks.

That’s right. I should have been clearer.

It is not easy when your kids want to play Roblox with friends and Roblox only runs Windows.

Yes, I could have tried proton, but I don’t want to deal with issues. I tried running windows only games on linux. The user experience is far from ideal. More frequent crashes, other issues.

These days kid’s download free games they want. I could not have that on Linux.

Linux all the way.

Windows is only on kid’s computers. Because they need roblox and generally games run better on windows.

Or just visit a local pawnshop and get PC within your budget.

One advantage is you get x86 architecture, good IO quality and case hosting a couple drives.

Just pay attention to specs.

Or watch local craigslist.

Load that PC with Linux of your choice.

Linux can run on very low memory specs. Even 512MB. Don’t pay much attention to CPU. Just about any in last 10 years will work for you.

2 GB of RAM will be plenty.

If you plan on using old drive, make sure to have backup for your data.

Windows on old hardware will be pain. Linux will be fine. Go for Gnome or XFCE desktop. Gnome is simple, quite lite these days. Xfce is lighter and more similar to windows. I generally don’t go for distribution based desktops like mate.

I am Arch guy, but it’s not an option for non-tech people. Thus Manjaro (Arch based) or Ubuntu (safe mainstream).

You will get more performance out of Manjaro, because Arch doesn’t push flatpack on users, which slows down things.

You are best served by NixOS.

Normally Arch or Debian is a great option, but not this time.

Gnome web is not usable. It crashes.