Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?

Gotcha, the one you linked is sold out, but what about this one?

it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86

Hmm, this is just enough to give me pause. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to think on this some more and maybe do a little more research.

What made you want to switch from docker to podman?

Beelink ME Mini

Would something like this be suitable as a NAS + Jellyfin + Home Assistant box?

That’s pretty slick.

What are the HDDs plugged into? Would you mind posting some photos of the back?

Have you checked proton db to see what other gamers are saying about these two games?

This funniness only affects market orders, right? I reckon most retail orders are market orders, just wondering if I understand correctly. If I place a limit order, then I don’t have to worry about the $5 I saved on a $0 fee transaction being made up elsewhere, although I suppose the tradeoff is that my order may not be filled at all.

try to sneakily make me register passcodes

Can you expand on this? I’m not sure what this means. Is it like instead of a full fledged password, just a four digit PIN or something? Thanks.

Really glad to see World of Warcraft 64 gaining traction.

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?

I do this as well—I’m currently automating a repetitive workflow for work using python. What’s the latest project you’ve generated boilerplate code for?

So you’ll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it’ll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?

That all sounds pretty neat. Do you do these things locally or is there a cloud service for that?

Care to expand on sound manipulation? Are you talking about for removing background noise from recordings or something else?

Do you take any precautions to protect your privacy from Google or are you just like, eh, whatever?

Table top games?