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  • Yeah it's the drives and the controller for all the drives that are making the power usage what it is. I could replace some of the older drives with a newer one and be able to ditch the smaller drives and controllers, but it seems a waste to do that until they die.

    Also, I wouldn't mind ditching for a Sufficient(TM) amount of nvme storage, but SSDs aren't actually getting cheaper and are probably going to do the opposite, so I'll likely end up doing uh, nothing,

  • Anecdata, but SSDs will last longer than you want to use them in terms of write endurance.

    My NAS OS SSDs are 500gb hynix drives from about 8 years ago, and they're pushing 150 TBW.

    150TB is a LOT of write cycles on a small drive, and they're still reporting 94% endurance remaining.

    The controller will die or I'll upgrade well before that breaks at the rate it's going.

    Also keep in mind that you can read flash all you want and that doesn't wear anything (unlike a HDD, amusingly), so for most consumer use cases, they'll load the drive up with their data, and then only slowly modify or add to it, but have lots and lots of read access.

  • HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total

    Whether your drives are idle is also a very use-case specific thing and I wouldn't spend any time trying to generalize based on that math as a "oh this is how it works for everyone".

    In my case, I've got 5 drives all spun up at all times because of torrrent clients, Jellyfin users, and just general media acquisition and public content serving.

    This thing would dramatically reduce my power footprint and save me giant buckets of money over it's lifespan while being smaller/faster IO performance/lower noise.

    (My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so....)

  • It's not just the baked products either!

    I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.

    Now you'd t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?

    Well uh, no. It's sugar for some reason.

  • There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.

    Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.

    Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?

  • Americans tend to buy the most car they think they can afford.

    Hell, Americans buy the most car they can finagle a loan for, independent of if they can or can't actually afford it.

    It wouldn't be surprising to find that a good portion of Tesla buyers are stuck in the trap where they owe so much on it that there's no way they could afford the hit to replace it, because they can barely make their payments now.

  • Well, I can kinda answer that: I've got a launch PS4 controller that I mostly use wired on my PC and it's fine.

    If I use it wirelessly, it'll still get about 5-6 hours, which basically means after 13 years it's still right on spec for what it should be able to do.

    Not really something that's probably worth worrying about unless you've got some absolutely shitty batteries.

    (Hell, I've still got some PS3 controllers that'll do 3-4 hours, and they're freaking ancient at this point.)

  • No wildlife, unless you mean the swarm of spiders that were living in the piles of yard debris in my back yard.

    Nearly 100 yard bags later, an enormous pile of branches that's like 8ft tall and 10ft long, and endless hours (seriously, easily 40 hours this week) and such later, my yard is no longer buried under 5 years of neglect and tree byproducts.

    Now to make the raised planter beds, firepit, and outdoor seating I've wanted since I've moved in but haven't dont.

  • At least: I'm probably at 5x what the guns cost in training, ammo, gear, range fees, gas to and from the range (live in a city, so most local ranges don't exactly let you shoot 5.56) and so on.

    Not the cheapest hobby if you're planning on actually serious about being able to use your guns if something makes that necessary.

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