Absolutely. Don’t fuck with electrical.

Generally speaking most buildings can be “grandfathered in” under code such that it’s perfectly legal to rent as long as the electrical system functions and meets code for the year on which it was built or installed… shitty, but legal.

It will not affect system stability, but… Surge protectors do not work at all without a ground wire to drop excess voltage to. Any kind of line voltage disturbance could kill every device.

Additionally, without any ground wire to pull the housings of devices to ground, the potential for a short to energize the case and then electrocute you is also high.

additionally additionally, if you have grounded outlets that don’t actually have a ground connection running to them, that means either the wiring system is broken or it was “updated” by an unlicensed hack job who has undoubtedly made numerous more dangerous decisions elsewhere in the circuit.

If your house is entirely ungrounded you really should have an electrician come update it ASAP. Outlet grounds have been mandatory since 1971. The chances are high that wiring predating that code is still using old cloth-wrapped wire insulation or even knob&tube, both of which are huge fire risks as the insulation is decayed badly by now. It’s expensive to have all new wire pulled but it is necessary.

Don’t use a thumb drive, use an external hard/solid state drive or install an internal drive. Even an aliexpress 64gb ssd for $10 is better than any thumbdrive. Thumbdrive’s flash and controllers are not designed for OS level continuous writes and will die very quickly.

If you must use a thumb drive, add some kind of air flow over it, and disable all logging features in openWRT to reduce writes as much as possible.

No need for an Intel CPU. It is basically platform agnostic like any other.

About its only “requirement” is that your system is new enough to support Resizable BAR on thr PCIe bus, which your zen3 machine absolutely is.

The absolute best bang for your buck new GPU’s for decode/encode are Intel ARC GPU’s. They use Intel’s Quick Sync Video system which is some of the best supported encode/decode libraries out there, and they’re cheap.

An ARC A380 is easily had for $110, runs entirely off 75w PCIe slot power requiring no additional PSU wires, and supports H264/H265/AV1 encode. It’s a no brainer.

As long as it physically fits the slot, it should not have an issue with the lower PCIe bandwidth. The lower end GPU’s really need very little even for video encode.

If its just for her, I don’t really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age “found christian” movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She’s gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.

Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you’re not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It’s not worth driving a rift in the family over.

It is, I’m being tongue in cheek I’ve been to busy to finish the models lol

Oh yeah?? Whhelll my installation of Autodesk Inventor can build a case for one SBC in… all of six weeks!!! Take that!

The devices usually get some descriptor of what they look like…

For example I have:

• Flatboard - an old core2duo era Xeon bare tower server board I got on Craigslist for $20 that lives on a custom backplate and no case (thus, is flat)
• OrangeBox - an Orange Pi 5 in a aptly-colored orange case I custom modeled and 3d printed for it
• DumbBrick - my retired gaming PC built from a t30 dell tower server that is basically a nondescript black brick

BOINC! Do some science. :)

The preloaded spyware OS is half baked, horribly unfinished, and also locked to the hardware. You can work around it to install your own OS but they provide zero support and explicitly say it is not supposed to be allowed by ToS while intentionally making it as hard as possible by making the BIOS inaccessible and digitally signed to their own OS. Fuck that.

The crowdfunding fundraiser (where there are zero penalties if things are shipped broken, incomplete or not at all) is super fishy and the non-discount price is astronomical. While the hardware looks nice… Hard, hard pass right now, stinks of vendor lockin and illegal data vacuuming. Do not buy.

Source video: https://youtu.be/Y_MgY7wgII8

hell yeah! enjoy your game :)

yes, even 11 years ago. it is dumping the ram state of the emulated processor and game state not of the emulator on it’s host system. There may be different header data or something that could cause problems but realistically all .sav’s really should be the same.

yeah the .sav’s are generally all the same because they’re just almost always just a binary dump of RAM contents.

NAT to extremes… it’s Starlink so I think I’m almost completely obfuscated from the internet entirely.

quite frankly i don’t really host anything that needs to be accessible from the general Internet so I never bothered with workarounds.

100% is lan only cause my isp is a cunt

i got the random Dell SFF optiplex with 16gb of upgraded ram and a i5-4690 sitting at the girlfriend’s house because she’s the only one with an ISP that still allows public ip’s.
It runs Minecraft.

at home i have my old 9yo retired gaming desktop doing seedbox work and mostly just running BOINC to donate compute power to science… and also keep my feet warm lol

yeah. that’s it. i really don’t do shit even though i totally could.

me after 15 years of intermittent learning self hosting:

i have the one random office PC that runs minecraft

…yeah that’s it

A lot of people, myself included, got pissed off at the Pi Foundation during the chip shortage for exclusively shipping boards to business customers who vacuumed up every single one of them faster than any consumer could. You couldn’t shake a stick at any Pi for less than 3x MSRP from scalpers, which at that point, you’re literally better off grabbing a NUC. They showed their true colors and it left a bad taste in all our mouths, and I will never be buying another Pi.

Really the ARM hate just comes down to ecosystem support. A lot of the SBC’s from other Chinese suppliers have mid kernel/OS level support at best, and a limited range of compiled software. For a lot of purposes, going x86 simplifies setup and opens up the software realm so, so much.