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ultimaluz lemmy.world ultimaluz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-17
#102 · Quote Reply
andrewoidxyz wrote:
is mining worth it for you?

money wise no, not even close. it's a bitaxe gamma doing around 1 TH/s solo, so it's basically a lottery ticket, the odds of hitting a block are tiny. it costs me like 3 euros a month in power so I treat it as a toy, I like checking the best difficulty it found and it's a nice way to learn how mining works
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idk (she/her) szmer.info Tiger_Man_@szmer.info
Joined: 2025-08-06
#103 · (edited) Quote Reply

the theoretical maximum is 20w, the average is around 5w. its a raspberry pi and some old hdd
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gatohaus eviltoast.org gatohaus@eviltoast.org
Joined: 2025-02-25
#104 · Quote Reply

Usually around 3.5w.
Lenovo mq80 running immich, nextcloud, journiv, vikunja.
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stuner lemmy.world stuner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#105 · Quote Reply
EddoWagt wrote:
That's the one thing I don't like about Truenas. It technically can spin down disks, but there's no way to force them. You can set the idle timer to 5 minutes, but then it constantly spins them back up again. Now I just power the entire system down with home assistant outside of the usage hours and I can power it up again with home assistant using wake on Lan. A bit goofy, but it works for me

I think for me spin-down was working initially. But then I added some Docker containers and those could only be run on the HDDs, blocking spin down. With Debian I just put the containers on the smaller SSD, allowing the HDDs to spin down.
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heyeddi lemmy.world heyeddi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-17
#106 · Quote Reply

I'm designing around an Intel N150, and this thread is the reason. These chips idle in single digits with an SSD, so most of the cost of running always-on goes away. The catch is the 16GB RAM ceiling on most boards, which caps how much local AI you can run on it. For the low-watt folks: what did you give up to get there, and was it worth it?
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