>I experience that and just sit with it. That is the difference.

Other people might have it worse and it might stay with them longer.

Could you keep it up if you were 10x as hungry as you are now for next 5 years?

1/3-1/2 of the cost of the electricity we pay is distribution.

Some of it is physical infrastructure (transformers, wire, poles), but a lot of it is labor.

Labor is expensive in US. It’s a lot of labor to do, plus they’ll likely need regulatory approval, buying out land, working through easements.

At the same time you have people screaming about how expensive energy is.

Furthermore they have higher priorities, replacing ancient aging infrastructure that’s crumbling and being put on higher load every day.

There’s a plethora of old phones and tablets you can purchase on the cheap ($50-$100) and install Linux. They are all faster then rpi0

> Generally they can borrow money at a lower rate

There is some tax tricks you can play, but in general homes for primary residence is lower then secondary/rent, which is a big proportion of cost.

tradeoffs :)

Love Immich. Runs smoothly on an amd 4700u ($200) with minimum cpu/ram usage

I agree, and simple to me $200 new PC does this task just fine.

Yep and it also runs 30+ more containers without a hitch! Crazy times we live in.

What about the $10b to build the facility (including clean air/water/chemicals/etc)?

Rent a warehouse in one of the non Han dominated areas of China, where you can use all you want from the city's drinking water supply and pump all your used chemicals into the nearby river. Make sure to totally automate your robotic production line so you don't need to employ any locals.

It would be cheaper to bulldoze the warehouse and start over.

And then spend the next five years building the actual fab around it? Like what’s the plan here.

No you're right. My math is very off.

You should deactivate your bc donation link since you admitted this

Internet says to keep humidity below 50%, so a dehumidifier.

> the NAS in idle consumes more power than my UNAS Pro with 4x8TB HDD and 2X8TB SSD, as well as a Mac mini M1 with a 2TB Samsung T7 SSD, and my 4 access points and 4 protect cameras combined.

Are your drives spun? 70w is a pretty low bar. The nas by itself is probably 40w with drives, Mac mini is another 7-10w (especially at wall) and now we are at 50w, so 20w left for 4 AP and cameras

drives are spinning. 4x8TB WD Red Plus, which uses 3.4W idle, and assuming 20W for the NAS it's at ~34W (measured 35W). Mac Mini uses 4.6W idle (headless). POE consumption (measured by switch) is 37W (I'm aware there's overhead in AC/DC conversion).

All in all the total consumption at the wall is 96W, but as i have written in another comment, i was 7-8W off, meaning the quoted setup of mine uses 7-8W more than the 66.7W OPs NAS idles at.

>3.6V is considered the nominal voltage, certainly not the low end cut off.

This is not right (3.6v certainly is and can be cut off depending on device and battery).

One thing you are not considering is discharge after the cut off. Fuel gauge, protection circuitry, the cut off circuitry and battery itself has some discharge.

So you don’t want to have the cut off being too low because then the battery is permanently dead after not using it for X period of time.

You want to leave some margin there.

Depending on product, battery chemistry and design I have seen cut-off at 3.0-3.6v.

Anyone setting cut-off at 3.6V either is using it in some insanely industrial, ludicrous application where you need to handle cases like multiple years in storage... or doesn't know how to properly design their protection circuitry.

The margin is already there at 3.0V. You can still recharge batteries discharged below 3.0V. It just becomes dicey below ~2.5V.

>Anyone setting cut-off at 3.6V either is using it in some insanely industrial, ludicrous application where you need to handle cases like multiple years in storage... or doesn't know how to properly design their protection circuitry.

It really depends on application, battery size and leakage. In consumer world of electronics for example there’s an often requirement to make sure device turns on after being on a shelf for 1/2 - 2 years.

Then when you do the math it ends up needing to set the limit to 3-3.6v.

>The margin is already there at 3.0V. You can still recharge batteries discharged below 3.0V. It just becomes dicey below ~2.5V.

The margin isn’t big enough for some products. Furthermore some of the more leading edge batteries (in terms of energy density) have higher leakage which requires having more margin.

^^ this