Even cheaper on real-time pricing, depending on time of day (but add about 4¢/kWh for transmission fees, too).

She definitely made the right call.

Find myself wondering the last time an NFL team had the first overall pick two years in a row.

nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 refuses to watch the Chicago Bears lose.

Not really, other than slowing down your initial block download. Bitcoin Core is really good about recovering from where it left off, restoring connections, making new ones, etc.

Still learning and rebuilding my home infrastructure, but here's my initial test. More virtualized containers and services, clustering, a NAS, and more will steadily find their way into my setup.

Creo que ese es un poco caro. El cpu es suficiente fuerte pero no tienes la flexibilidad de un mini PC o laptop para cambiar el RAM, nvme 2280, sata(?).

¿Puede correr (¿cual es el verbo?) linux? Driver compatibility...?

What is it sitting on? Is that like a dock? Expansion for more disks?

Interesting, nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg wouldn't let me submit a post with a note embed (clicking "post" just did nothing) because I had accidentally truncated the final char off the note id. A warning would be better: "invalid note id" or something.

nostr:note19tgnqlp4uurvdeknm8c0gmzm50ge4mt6w9wgtvv5gx40qku2em9sztek95

Wait, NOW Duolingo introduces direct instruction, even though it just slipped in past tense throughout the last section or two?

Confusing. I still assume they have some solid research stats backing this all up, but still... weird.

Fair, but my dead Raspi nodes pissed me off, meanwhile I'm so f'n impressed with what I can do with this cheap used hardware that my word choice is understandably emphatic, ya?

My laptop node and mini PC node are both running a fast nvme as the system drive and a 2TB data ssd.

Depending on form factor (m.2 nvme vs sata ssd), I've been going with these 2TB drives.

* cache good.

* SLC cache okay.

* DRAM cache best.

* QLC storage bad.

* TLC storage okay.

* SLC/MLC storage good but rare.

Also have to check m.2 key (the notch) compatibility 😤

Because of the mini PC physical layout, I can't directly connect the mirrored drives via sata. So they'll just be usb3. So: slow.

And not going to buy a dedicated NAS box.

So I don't want to treat those drives as my main data drives. They'll only be for backups.

15W @ 30¢/kWh = $3.24/mo.

You're going to format any existing drives or, more likely, replace with your own. After that, any attacks would have to be pretty elaborate.

I'm building a separate NAS w/two mirrored 8TB spinning HDDs.

But that's aside from the 2TB data ssd in each mini PC.

Primal + Chrome + macOS rendering the videos.

But the point of them was to show how quiet the fans are, so, uh, crank up the volume and enjoy anyway!

Yo, this all-metal nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl case from MoneroTime (twitter handle) is sexy af!!

The design lines and the craftsmanship are incredible. And the thinner sandwich build plus the weight of the metal enclosure makes it feel so beautifully substantial and more dense than a typical SeedSigner.

Also a nice endorsement for FOSS. MoneroTime's design interest was mostly (or maybe wholly) motivated by using our hardware as a MoneroSigner -- yup, a fork of SeedSigner for Monero. Our FOSS code attracted more eyeballs and talent and skills to contribute to the mix. Cool.

https://v.nostr.build/Zemx.mp4

I don't run a LN node anymore, but my understanding is that moving channels around gets much dicier.

"Best way" to run a node will depend on tech comfort level.

I suppose you could do an unlicensed Win10 install and just run the Bitcoin Core UI.

Better would be either a full node packager image (I think maybe some package in their own linux OS?) or a basic debian / ubuntu install with a node packager on top (which will be all dockerized apps under the hood).

I'm going more hardcore and running ProxMox to create separate baby VMs for each service to run in.

For me it's power issues. I've had two Raspi4s die on me (ssd/sd card corrupted) and I think each time it was due to an ill-timed power outage or momentary power dropout.

So Raspi4 + UPS is probably maybe okay. Just underpowered and overpriced.

Mini PC + UPS def robust and reliable.

Old laptop w/built-in battery just about ideal for people that just want to keep things simple.

For data backups, my strategy is moving toward:

* virtualizing containers via ProxMox

* dual mini-PC ProxMox cluster

* nvme system drive in each mini PC

* 2 TB ssd data drive for each

* 8 TB mirrored NAS spinning hdds storing scheduled backups from the 2TB data drive AND the ProxMox container image/snapshots.

So any system nvme can fail, any 2TB data ssd can fail, and either of the physical mini PCs can die and I'd still be able to rebuild everything as long as one of the mirrored hdds survives.

And all of this is kind of just tech ops LARPing as I really don't need this level of redundancy and failover. I don't run LN so the vast majority of my node data is totally unimportant (lost my node data? Meh, IBD again).