Even the pro systems have single threaded portions for modelling. Multi thread, multi processor is only taken advantage of in a few areas, and even then the performance improvement is not drastically different in most tasks

They are a tool, but some people use it as a replacement for actual knowledge, and take it as gospel. Its going to create a generation of idiots

I do know a few people who do. They get access to the better model, and the history is retained so it let’s them build on previous stuff. Still stupid to me, because it still give you wrong info.

I don’t understand the down votes on this comment. What you have said seems reasonable

Here’s the options the AI in notepad offers…

It is if you are subscribed to certain channels, but thankfully we have pro with ability to alter some group policies to block copilot.

There are some minor tools for small work that have been helpful, but overall it is intrusive slop.

Windows updates keep trying to add back ai.exe and aimgr.DLL to my office folder. Which I delete, because otherwise it randomly hogs CPU and bogs down the computer.

Then every damn app has a new AI panel that is garbage.

Yep, it was a trove of discovery, now its all data gleaning and AI marketing slop, and other garbage.

Here’s one place https://neocities.org/browse

That fog lights on cars used to be able to be turned on with headlights off, so you could actually see better in fog. Nowadays the foglights won’t turn on on most vehicles if headlights aren’t on, which really doesn’t help driving, since you still get headlight glare back.

For more money and wasted power. People overbuild quite often.

Oui, Oui.

My pi gets 81MB/s non cache HDD read speed over USB.

With an msata SSD into a USB adapter if gets non cache read speed of 437MB/s

I totally get that doesn’t compete with a pcie slot msata or nvme.

But it significantly improves access time and transfer.

OPs request was could they do it with pis. Yes you could. HDD is max 120mbs, with SSD over USB interface you get a lot more even thought its not running on the pcie bus. It is totally functional as long as you aren’t streaming 4k to your TV. And it is more than enough for most people. As a reliable backup solution it works, but best if you use a drive enclosure that is powered, rather than relying on the USB power of the drive adapter.

You seem irrationally irked about a viable suggestion, to OPs orignal question. Sorry if I triggered your inner nerd 😀

PS. I’m not talking getting nvme speeds on USB, I’m saying if you use an msata ssd you get tons more bandwidth on USB than HDD

I think you missed the part about me saying older Pi, being cheap. Like you can pickup a pi3b for $35 where as I’d have to pay $150-180 for a pi5. People get focused on hardware that is overkill for their needs (especially if you track access and system load). You can probably get a deal on an old thinclient or nuc also. Its good to show people options.

For example I have a 15 year old arm board with 256mb non expandable RAM. (Dedtined for the garbage dump) with debian It handles music streaming and samba shares perfectly fine with an SSD. And doesn’t even use 50% of the RAM.

You don’t have to have pcie for a simple nas, USB with an SSD is fine. I ran my video, audio and samba shares on it that way and its plenty good.

As a counter point you can grab an old Pi for cheap and install OpenMediaVault OS and have all the NAS tools you need managed from a GUI.

There are Plugins for tons of self hosting options, and GUI docker management for your own add ons. (New versions dumped portainer, in favor of their own GUI tools).

Pi3 is fine Pi4 would be better. Wattage is between 4-7

I used to host this way till I found a fanless heatsink case for a ITX board.
Idle wattage is 15, and 23 for processing heavier tasks

Yeah, just wondered because containers just hook into the kernal in a way that doesn’t have overhead. Where as a VM has to emulate the entire OS. But hey I get it, fixing stuff inside the container can be a pain

Vancouver had some groups, they may have them where you are at.

One was an atheist group meeting weekly to do what churches do as a community gathering, helping out in the local area etc.

Another was the Processions, which was (from what I gather) a church that didn’t talk about god, as trying to describe or talk about god takes away from what god is. So they’d just meet as a community with an understanding they believed in a higher creator.

There are docker script and docker compose installs. It was basically reading the documents and Editting a few text files and launching it in docker. Hardest part I found was the face tagging, it was totally counter intuitive to assign a face and persons name. Like almost obfuscated. Once you set that up though it just does its thing superbly well

Why VMs instead of contsiners? Seems like way more processing overhead.