Dirt cheap.

Cost = maintenance + servers

Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.

ah, yes, prejudice

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

people get grumpy about containers vs nix vs flatpak and I just wanna say… I’m glad you’re using Linux. yes, you.

The lemmy devs would probably take something sensible like that and flat out shoot it down because they think they know better.

wait, what?

I don’t get it

It would be fixed capital regardless of the interior design and chairs?

I grew up in a small town in the rockies and one of the developer outfits had a fancy office with this decor