I got a sff P330 Xeon with integrated graphics for ~$500 two years ago that includes case power supply etc. Far faster than an n100 and even lower power than if you added a GPU to an n100.

I just plugged in a kilowatt to check:

My Lenovo sff workstation running Plex idles at 15 watts- which is 90% of the time. Streaming 4k 52Mbs hevc (This Flash Gordon is my torture test that caused me to upgrade 2 years ago) it’s 18 watts! I was so surprised that I went back and unplugged the Ethernet thinking I put the killawatt on the wrong server.

What’s your budget? I’m a big fan of old Xeon servers.

I consider that a transition time, not Modern. Windows had frames but were more subdued than 1990’s style. Buttons were still distinguished from text.

Yeah, it was probably peak UI.

Everything about modern UI is about appearance over function. Is a window resizeable? No way to know because no windows have frames. Is that text a button? No way to know because buttons don’t have frames either.

Every Modern app is clicking the screen at random until you learn the interactive elements.

It can generate a huge waste but you don’t have to use it that way. I’m working on making my plates use less color changes by separating more but it’s still nice to be able to select a filament that’s been in a dryer from the slicer instead of having to manually change rolls. I also want to play with using different filaments for supports. It uses minimal extra filament but makes supports work much better.

So how do the magnetic build plates work? Some materials need high bed temps. 80C for nylon.

I thought the #PitchMeetings guy got into 3d printing.

There are a ton of great printers under $1000 these days. If I needed a larger bed I’d get a Qidi Max 3. I got an Anycubic s1 with an ams that dries for $600.

The first Linux I used wasn’t part of any distro. A few years later I compiled Slackware to run bind and Sendmail.

Last year I tried Arch in a VM. I got to where it expected me to know what partitions to create for root and swap and noped out. It’s not 1996. I don’t have time for those details any more. No one should. Sane defaults have been in other distros for decades.