Yeah the SFFs and uSFFs are great for consuming low power.

I’ve got a couple m910q’s that I bought for htpc purposes but honestly I might be better off putting the thick ones on htpc duty. Just gotta work out some kinks with how they handle suspend when hooked up to a TV.

They’ve really shot up in price…I bought two for 130 shipped (total) with i5-7500T and 16gb back around last Halloween. I’m seeing singles not specced as well for the same price

The tough thing about uSFF is that they usually don’t have any PCIe slots…so if you need a second NIC, or want to upgrade to mGig, you can’t, or they have to be over USB 3.

This.

I look for corporate desktops that are off-lease or EoL. Big fan of Lenovo M series. 6th/7th gen still have lots of life left in them and plenty of power for most homelab tasks.

Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front and probably be more expensive to put upgrades into (i.e. DDR5). Anything much older than that won’t be worth the performance per watt. By the time you put a 7th gen through its paces, you’ll be ready to upgrade and have a much clearer look at what you want/need.

Right now I’ve got 3x M710s forming a kubernetes cluster, and another running opnsense only.

Kubernetes was built on top of VMs in proxmox, but I’m thinking I will move them to metal.

I also have what was my PC down in the basement, with proxmox, running a TrueNAS VM and a Bazzite VM for GPU passthrough and Sunshine, but I’m gonna reclaim those guts, put a spare 6th gen with DDR3 and run TrueNAS on metal. Then I’ll have my PC back.

Get a French manicure. Problem solved.

Fight fire with fire.

I use nails. Like a little penny nail.

Or something else equally skinny and regid. Paperclip. Staple. Steak knife. Whatever.

They’re raping the earth, and we are going to sit around and watch until they finish.

There’s this annoying Cybertruck with this custom paint job that parks on my street sometimes. Usually does quite a poor job of it.

I see it also parked in an empty lot next to a little shopping center a few miles away.

We were having a neighborhood gathering and somebody brought it up, wondering whose it was.

It belongs to the boyfriend of the daughter of one of the neighbors who doesn’t socialize with the rest of us. Turns out he owns a barbershop in the plaza, but it’s too big to fit on any of the parking spots so he parks it in the empty lot next door.

Anyways a couple months later and I’m in physical therapy (sciatica hit me real hard), and I overhear this older guy a few tables down, talking to the PTA. Real loud, hard to not overhear. Total boomer energy.

He talked about his son having gotten a cybertruck, and put a bunch of money into it with custom paint and whatnot…and so I butt in…“is your son a barber?”.

Sure enough, he is. It’s his dad.

Does this make me a townie? This feels like a townie kind of story.

You mean to tell me that a white apartheid South African billionaire got a bit of political power and used it to stimulate pain and suffering in Africa?

Surprised Pikachu.

And then an angry nightclub owner.

Who does this character remind me of?

Is it a despicable me villain? I really hope it’s not a despicable me villain.

Why would a mobile site give a QR code to prove you’re human?

I think that would prove you’re robot, if anything. I need my phone’s camera to scan the QR code, but it’s on the screen!

Me after eating a big greasy burger on GLP-1s?

MLK wouldn’t have been effective without Malcom X.

But which one has a holiday?

Man my teenager to adult transitional cynicism was pretty fucking bad (which of course occurred between 9/11 and the 2008 financial collapse)…middle-aged awakening is even fucking worse.

Hung Juror #69. Born during the 2000 election. They call me Hung Chad.

But the order breaks it up by vehicle…

It looks like all three are for the same vehicle and there are orders for three different vehicles, but this looks to be the only one op is doing brakes for.

Three brake pads?

Usually they are sold in sets of four…two pads per front and back. Front and rear, should be two sets. And you’ve got 4 rotors which is right…but why 3 brake pads? That should be enough for 3 axles.

It was, but it was first discovered by this guy first.

Relativity is fucking strange.

Maybe they mean “the man” as a colloquialism for patriarchy?

Not necessarily “a man”. Not like “You’re the man now, dog”. More like how the world is run by the Man.

The Man, oh, you don’t know the Man. He’s everywhere. In the White House… down the hall… Ms. Mullins, she’s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he’s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock ‘n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome ’cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!

That’s not really back…that’s more to the right.

We are but a product of our upbringing. At least you’ve since learned better. That can’t be said for everyone, sadly.