I’ve tried recycling a USB-based 5-bay enclosure (which I previously used in hardware raid mode) for my unraid-based backup and even in that lower criticality use-case it was an absolute showstopper. Its kind of a shame that USB seemingly can’t be used this way. It would make redundant data storage so much more affordable.

TDP is a very misunderstood concept these days because it used to be a hard upper limit but now it’s god knows what. The Spec Sheet is calling it “Processor Base Power”. What might that be you ask? Well of course it is

The time-averaged power dissipation that the processor is validated to not exceed during manufacturing while executing an Intel-specified high complexity workload at Base Frequency and at the junction temperature as specified in the Datasheet for the SKU segment and configuration.

In other words it’s just marketing mumbo jumbo. According to other users the N150 can draw as much as 20 up to 35 watts even. The fact that the heat is radiating well through your case sounds like a positive if anything. This is x86 we’re talking about. The added complexity of that architecture over ARM comes at a price.

I think that every platform will reach sort of an equilibrium during its lifetime. That relative “plateau” may last for months, years or even longer than that, but I think it will always be reached after its peak.

imho the height of that peak and plateau speak to the overall popularity potential of the platform. Which is just that. A potential to attract masses. Whether maximizing this is a core goal is a different question.

I’d say monthly active looks pretty much stagnant. Of course we would all benefit from greater adoption.

For me it was spezgate that brought me to abandon reddit. Yes, a platform is only as valuable as its userbase. Someone else here boiled it down to “quality over quantity”. I don’t expect this to be the final verdict on the trend.

To me this is a lot like Linux vs Windows market share. Microsoft are currently doing everything in their power to enshittify Windows 11. But the endgame for a community first product like Linux isn’t to promote itself better towards potential switchers. People need to make that switch themselves.

The big tech product will probably always “win” in terms of adoption, even if it is inferior in terms of its own merits. At the end of the day nobody wants to be Microsoft (reddit) in this analogy. And Apple (bsky) isn’t that much better.

Couldn’t say it any better. If stagnant popularity is what is necessary to stay unattractive for botnets and bad actors I personally am all for it.

Thanks for the reply. So what kind of magnitude are we talking on the RAM usage here? Some people here talked about not being able to fit it inside 2G total. So I assume it’s probably like hundreds of megs which is only really significant in such low memory configurations.

That was the red flag for me personally in terms of giving it a try. At the first accusation they said “the code is there, I have nothing to hide” (which is entirely fair) but then it devolved into (paraphrasing) “I took down issue reporting because people kept abusing it.”

So assuming the best case scenario where the code is clean and it’s just a misunderstanding you’re still looking at a creator who is willing to censor the community they simultaneously seem particularly eager to reach by self-promoting their project. Not my jam.

For how long and how do resource usage and storage space used look by now?

The fact that ISPs can do this should be a fkn outrage. But this is so far removed from what people care about. And so net neutrality gets eroded.