Fucking Fascist!
Aceticon
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The way one designs hardware in is to optimize for the most common usage scenario with enough capacity to account for the peak use scenario (and with some safety margin on top).
(In the case of silent power sources they would also include lower power leakage in the common usage scenario so as to reduce the need for fans, plus in the actual physical circuit design would also include things like airflow and having space for a large slower fan since those are more silent)
However specifically for power sources, if you want to handle more power you have to for example use larger capacitors and switching MOSFETs so that it can handle more current, and those have more leakage hence more baseline losses. Mind you, using more expensive components one can get higher power stuff with less leakage, but that's not going to happen outside specialist power supplies which are specifically designed for high-peak use AND low baseline power consumption, and I'm not even sure if there's a genuine use case for such a design that justifies paying the extra cost for high-power low-leakage components.
In summary, whilst theoretically one can design a high-power low-leakage power source, it's going to cost a lot more because you need better components, and that's not going to be a generic desktop PC power source.
That said, I since silent PC power sources are designed to produce less heat, which means have less leakage (as power leakage is literally the power turning to heat), even if the with the design having been targetted for the most common usage scenario of that power source (which is not going to be 15W) that would still probably mean better components hence lower baseline leakage, hence they should waste less power if that desktop is repurposed as a NAS. Still won't beat a dedicated ARM SBC (not even close), but it might end up cheap enough to be worth it if you already have that PC with a silent power source.
When I had my setup with an ASUS EEE PC I had mobile external HDDs plugged to it via USB.
Since my use case was long-term storage and feeding video files to a Media TV Box, the bandwidth limit of USB 2.0 and using HDDs rather than SDDs was fine. Also back then I had 100Mbps ethernet so that too limited bandwidth.
Even in my current setup where I use a Mini-PC to do the same, I still have the storage be external mobile HDDs and now badwidth limits are 1Gbps ethernet and USB 3.0, which is still fine for my use case.
Because my use case now is long term storage, home file sharing and torrenting, my home network is using the same principles as distributed systems and modern microprocessor architectures: smaller faster data stores with often used data close to were its used (for example fast smaller SDDs with the OS and game executables inside my gaming machine, plus a torrent server inside that same Mini-PC using its internal SDD) and then layered outwards with decreasing speed and increasing size (that same desktop machine has an internal "storage" HDD filled with low use files, and one network hop from it there's the Mini-PC NAS sharing its external HDDs containing longer term storage files).
The whole thing tries to balance storage costs and with usage needs.
I suppose I could improve performance a bit more by setting up some of the space in the internal SDD in the Mini-PC as a read/write cache for the external HDDs, but so far I haven't had the patience to do it.
I used to design high performance distributed computing systems and funnilly enough my home setup follows the same design principles (which I had not noticed until thinking about it now as I wrote this).
Yeah, different hardware is designed for different use cases and generally won't work as well for other use cases, which is also why desktops seldom make for great NAS servers (their fans will also fail from constant use, plus their design spec is for much higher power usage so they have a lot more power waste even if trottled down).
That said my ASUS EEE PC lasted a few years on top of a cabinet in my kitchen (which is were the Internet came into my house so the router was also there) with a couple of external HDDs plugged in, and that's a bit of a hostile environment (because some of the particulates from cooking, including fat, don't get pulled out and end up accumulating there).
At the moment I just have a Mini-PC on my living room with a couple of external HDDs plugged in that works as NAS, TV Media Box and home server (including wireguard VPN on top of a 1Gbps connection, which at peak is somewhat processor intensive). It's an N100 and the whole thing has a TDP of 15W so the fan seldom activates. So far that seems to be the best long term solution, plus it's multiple use unlike a proprietary NAS. It's the some of the best €140 (not including the HDDs) I've ever spent.
Stuff designed for much higher peek usage tend to have a lot more waste.
For example, a 400W power source (which is what's probably in the original PC of your example) will waste more power than a lower wattage on (unless it's a very expensive one), so in that example of yours it should be replaced by something much smaller.
Even beyond that, everything in there - another example, the motherboard - will have a lot more power leakage than something designed for a low power system (say, an ARM SBC).
Unless it's a notebook, that old PC will always consume more power than, say, an N100 Mini-PC, much less an ARM based one.
True for notebooks. (For years my home NAS was an old Asus EEE PC)
Desktops, on the other hand, tend to consume a lot more power (how bad it is, depends on the generation) - they're simply not designed to be a quiet device sitting on a corner continuously running a low CPU power demanding task: stuff designed for a lot more demanding tasks will have things like much bigger power sources which are less efficient at low power demand (when something is design to put out 400W, wasting 5 or 10W is no big deal, when it's designed to put out 15W, wasting 5 or 10W would make it horribly inefficient).
Meanwhile the typical NAS out there is running an ARM processor (which are known for their low power consumption) or at worse a low powered Intel processor such as the N100.
Mind you, the idea of running you own NAS software is great (one can do way more with that than with a proprietary NAS, since its far more flexible) as long as you put it in the right hardware for the job.
The EU has no digital dependency on corporate AI, which seems to be the biggest beneficiary of unwinding the GDPR and other personal-info protecting legislation.
I partly agree with the point you're making but I don't think it actually applies that much to weakening this specific legislation.
Further, your point doesn't negate the Corruption - nothing impedes both things happening at once and in fact Corruption explains the current digital dependency, which for example was made worse by EU decisions such as treating the US as a safe haven nation for the data of EU citizens even though already then the Snowden Revelations as well as US' very own legislation made it very clear that the US was not safe for any data stored there or in the hands of US companies since their authorities could secretly force companies there to give them access to that data.
We are in the hole we are in part because over the years people in positions of power in the EU were "friendly" to and "understanding of the concerns" of large US Tech companies and "by an amazing coincidence" were latter given millionaire "jobs" with those companies - EU policy in the digital domain was shaped by something other than the interests if EU citizens or even EU businesses and, last I checked, US companies were not the ones EU politicians were elected to represent.
Last but not least, further caving to the US will just dig that hole even further, making us even more susceptible in the future to such blackmailing - it is literally the very opposite of the direction when should be going to.
As I see it, the EU is a 470 million people market which could seriously fuck up US tech companies doing things like cutting the accounts of judges in the EU which weren't nice to them, and do so by using already existing regulatory tools (for example, launching investigations on them for non-compliance with several EU regulations), which could go all the way to huge penalties and even blocking their access to the EU market (which is huge and represents a massive chunk of their profits). There simply isn't a will to do so and I fully believe that lack of will is related to personal upside maximization of people in positions of power in the EU since, as you describe, they're already attacking the Judiciary in the EU.
Frankly the only explanation I see for these measures which isn't either some form of corruption or massive incompetence, would be if this was just one big smoke and mirrors show to delay actions by the current US administration with no actual intention of ultimately doing anything meaningful, all to give time within the EU to move to alternatives which are not dependent on the US and/or for the evolution of events (for example, the AI bubble crashing) to make the whole thing irrelevant. Even then, this doesn't provide a positive explanation for the strange unwillingness of EU regulators to deploy the big guns when the US attacks members of the Judiciary in the EU as you describe, and for the various measures taken in the past at the EU level which have helped create and deepen the current digital dependency.
It's called Corruption.
If this goes through, watch out in a couple of years for ex-commisioners being paid fortunes by large Tech companies as non-executive board members, giving speeches or consulting gigs.
It's the same way as in the US, were people in positions of power doing "favours" today for large companies "by an amazing coincidence" later end up being paid enormous fortunes by those very companies or related companies for "working" 1h/month or similar - at that level the exchange of political favours for money is not done using brown envelopes full of bank notes.
Investigation and Prosecution of Corruption in Europe are a joke whilst Conflict Of Interest legislation is non-existent or riddled with so many giant loopholes that it's actually worse than if it didn't exists as it deceives most people into believing these things are properly legislated for.
We live in a seriously corrupt era in Europe, even in the countries which were traditionally cleaner.
Fair enough - I don't really know what are the numbers of Jewish People who already lived in the territory of Palestine that was became Israel at the time of the formation of that country.
This info is all I found some time ago because I was curious.
I knew that a lot of people from Russia had emigrated to Israel but the actual number was very surprising when I found out.
But yeah, either way we both agree on the core point which is that a large majority of Israelis are not descendants from people affected by the Holocaust.
because nearly 100 years ago someone else did it to their people and now they’re saying “it’s our turn.”
Not even close.
~~Most Israelis by a large margin are descendants of people who came from Russia, not Western Europe.~~
Most Israelis by a large margin are either descendants of people who came from Russia, or already lived in the territory of Palestine when Israel was formed, not descendants of people from Western Europe.
Only a small fraction of Israelis are descendants of people affected by the Holocaust, much less of Holocaust survivors.
There is no such thing as a "Jewish Hive Mind" and the only thing these Jews share with the Jews who were victims of the Holocaust is having the same religion, nothing else - not principles, not ethics, not morals, not empathy with victims of extreme racism, not even most of their culture: just because somebody also uses a kippah doesn't mean the think like you.
The Holocaust in Israel is nothing more than a tool used by the present day Nazi-like ideology that runs that place to induce collective fear amongst Jews because it's much more easy to spread extreme racist hate amongst people who live in fear because of their ethnicity.
This explains why, rather than learning from the Holocaust to empathise with the victims of such things (which would be a natural thing for the descendants of the victims of the Holocaust to learn from the experiences of their parents and grandparents), most people in Israel have instead learned extreme racist hate for those who don't look like them and who stand in the way of what they are told "is necessary make Jews safe".
The way the memory of the Holocaust is used in Israel is a complete total shit show of Racism and Propaganda that has massivelly distorted the real thing to serve the objectives of the Nazi-like ideology which is Zionism.
The mouse driver is already part of the OS in Window and Linux.
That shit you complain about is the Adverts Delivery & Private Data Capture application.