Spinning down and up actually kills drives more than constant non-stop work, I have a setup close to yours, it just seeds torrents (linux isos ofc.) 24/7.

Your decision, we have import tax as well starting from 150 euros or something, I’ve just always written 100 or less. With used hw you often don’t get warranty beyound week or 10 days anyway.

Building on a nonserver hw is a good idea. You could look things up at aliexpress, they almost always have free shipping. Alternatively you can buy stuff in US/EU for cheap and use some service for parcel delivery from there (meest/shipito etc.), often they deliver super cheap (like us$10-20 for something that would be two timesmore expensive locally)

You probably can find some people on old school windows forums, also different warez/piracy forums. You can also try to show off on hackernews/lobsters, sometimes people there just love small projects like yours.

I’ve just tried it, not bad but worse then expected, egg whites really don’t mesh with sweet jam. Also tried one with spicier option peach/paprica/chili jam and it’s better. Still won’t recommend it.

I think everyone or almost everyone ate a dog treat at least once? Personally I’m drawing the line at wet cat food, even if it tastes better then smells.

I would at least try it.

You really don’t? Ever met a person that actually enjoys the taste of them? Like the least offensive taste is tasteless and it still tastes like milky-chalk? Mb it’s tolerable if you have like 10 different flavours and can change them every other day. Yet there are some great protein bars, weird!

Because they want to. You can get your proofs yourself.

These probably require more maintenance and not less, glass needs to be regularly cleaned and water changed and fertilized, what will happen when company stops supporting this proprietary algae aquariums?

What’s nice about it? You hardly can use currency that changes value this fast.

Ffs you do not get disappeared for using vpns especially personal ones. You can install vpns that circumvent firewalls as long as they are blessed by ccp and they are sold using wechat. For non compliant ones it’s the same. It’s you who misunderstands how authoritarian systems work, noone tries to nail you for doing something semi-illegal, you will be dissapeared for non-conforming not for exploiting system.

VPN’s aren’t illegal in china, and they don’t go about random people who use them. Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.

Yeah, you can look up how to setup hysteria2 and xray. Additionally you need to understand that firewall is different in different places, in some places like big cities you can even use plain openvpn (during daytime), in other more rural places almost everything is blocked.

Distributed llama

Hard disagree, next day is rarely pleasant but .

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We’ve bought ~20 of small glinets for testing purposes there were zero problems as long the plastic shell was off, with shell on they had cooling problems, but that’s about it.

You are overthinking it, without flushing ram everything works fine. OS inside VM would just boot as normal and that’s it.

You do not need to shut down services to make snapshots, why would you?