If I fire up everything in the rack it’s several kilowatts. Probably more than a 230 V wall socket can handle.
Usually it’s way less, though right now it’s just a switch and the router/firewall, mere 57 W.
I make most of my own net power with solar PV, soon 4 kWp in total.
How much is a Chrome box with those specs?
300 EUR for refurbished devices with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD is very reasonable.
Check out refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad TinyPCs. Small, quiet and durable.
You can also buy refurbished Lenovo Thinkstation TinyPCs. These are low-power, small and quiet.
In order to find content, we used to have webrings, directory services, and then search engines. Most people don’t enter URLs by hand.
You do understand that a P2P proof of work backed global store is just infrastructure? And as egalitarian as DNS servers? And it doesn’t have the storage/compute footprint of a full bitcoin node.
The space of human-readable names is quite small, so proof of work is needed to protect it from being flooded. An alternative is to have your servers have names to be or derived from their public keys, or dissolve content from its location. Which brings its own problems.
There are authorityless blockchain-backed name registration services. In general, it is important whether you can localize a resource. If you can easily find it, the name doesn’t have to human-readable.
Opnsense is also that, and more. Compare the list of its packages with OpenWRT. Plus, it’s BSD based.
Postfix, but even with full spf dkim etc. monty not guaranteed to be always delivered to Gmail and Outlook. Because these don’t give a shit about standards.
As to PC, there are coreboot/libreboot and RISCV as more open options. Phone and tablet, GrapheneOS and LineageOS. Projectors, any dumb projector.
Is it shipping yet? Looks US-only.
Opnsense is a great router/firewall. OpenWRT is fine for WiFi APs.
I am one of few people who runs a proper dual-stack with a single static IPv4 and a static IPv6 subnet.
Nevertheless I also participate in experimental network overlays like https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ and distributed storage like IPFS.
There are solutions like IPFS for decentralized content hosting so downtime of a primary resource is less important.
These people are screwed, then. You can’t expect an uncaring universe to accomodate your wishes, if you’re not willing to move yourself. Stopping using stuff is always an option that doesn’t cost money.
Google doesn’t give a shit about what you want. It only understands two things: credible legal threats and not giving them your money.
It’s carbon monoxide that’s getting produced by combustion in an anoxic environment.
Here’s a use case: you load an LLM instance with a large amount of highly specific factual data over the course of several weeks (ingestion of a large number of documents, daily KT sessions, call with screen sharing transcription, docs artifact generation), and use that LLM to generate answers to people’s requests under high time pressure (urgent project deadline) which is prohibitive to even type the message, nevermind to comb though the data which you’d have to cram in your head, then never use again. Both sides are aware it involves AI. I have used this process against a control group (similar tasks, no AI use) and the result was clearly superior.
A fanless thin client with Opnsense and a four-port Intel NIC.