Shove your politics where the sun don’t shine.

Device Manager shows i7-7700, 3.6ghz, 8 cores

Maxes at 3gb of ram, unfortunately, since I run some vm’s on it.

Good to know! Wow, I’m impressed by the low power draw.

Thanks, I wanted to add a video card for conversion jobs, but didn’t think it had enough power.

Sounds like she virtualized and got her brother to host.😋

I have an older (2017) Dell SFF OptiPlex 7050 that idles about 12w, with 3 drives (each 1 TB, spinning disk).

It peaks about 80w when I’m doing conversions, but I can keep that down by limiting cpu usage for handbrake (it doesn’t convert faster above 4 cores anyway, just uses more power).

I was surprised by the low idle power, I would’ve been happy with upwards of 40w since my previous machine idled at 100w.

So I think very low idle is possible, I’m just not sure why this box idles so low.

Disks add wattage when running, but when idle use very little power, less than SSD.

Suprisingly hard drives often use less power than SSD because they can spin down, and because they use less power during writes than SSD.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/ssd-vs-hdd-we-know-about-speed-but-what-about-power-consumption

Also Wireguard, which is what Tailscale uses.

Resilio Sync or Syncthing

Ah, just saw the browser requirement.

In nextcloud discussions I’ve heard of Seafile. I’ve never used it, so not sure what it’s capable of.

Meh, DRM has been repeatedly circumvented. It’s a cat-and-mouse game, with very few cats (DRM developers/vendors) and many mice (DRM circumventors) who are very motivated.

DRM is to prevent the average consumer from sharing stuff.

Using a mesh network like Wireguard/Tailscale enables you to have a public interface that’s not on your home router, but the VPS instead.

I dunno, I’ve listened to some Middle English on a History of English podcast, and could follow along only slightly. I’m sure I could come up to speed quickly, since it at least has the French influence already (if I remember right).

I’m not familiar with the great vowel shift, is that a result of the Norman invasion in 1066, adding French into Old English? (That’s the sequence, right? It’s been a while since I read about it).

Because I don’t need a reverse proxy?

Also, as for ease of setup, with Tailscale I install an app and login. Done.

It’s pretty simple, the candidate didn’t meet the requirements.

Not sure why you’re involved, this is an HR and legal issue. If HR said they don’t have docs showing eligibility, then that needs to be reported to the recruiter, otherwise they’re going to recommend this person to somewhere else, and run into the same issue. How would you feel if you were in their shoes?

Whether someone can legally work somewhere is not your problem to solve, unless you can actually do something, like help them submit appropriate paperwork (I’ve done this for employees who were temps, to help them get more permanent status).

This is all HR’s problem, not anyone else’s. It’s what HR is for.

Not sure why they’re punting it back to you.

Well, first I’d have to learn Old English, I think. Hell, even Middle English isn’t understandable.

Hopefully I could get up to speed before they locked me up, or worse.

I think there may be scale elements to these too. The chart I had included scale.

They are?

Is there a study on this?

Probably because the ISP modem/router has limited capability.

I’ve done 2 routers like this for years (out of laziness more than anything) because cable modem router suck from a capability standpoint.

I’ve seen a diagrammatic chart showing the difference, but damned if I can find it on my phone.

For just files I’d use Syncthing or Resilio (I keep hundreds of gigs synced with ST). Resilio has a feature that’s very useful - Selective Sync. This allows you to setup a sync job that syncs the index of files, but doesn’t sync the actual files until you select a file(s) to sync on the remote device. I use this to access my media files from anywhere (3TB) which I obviously don’t want to try to sync the entire folder to my phone, etc.

But since you effectively are on the same LAN, you can use any file copy tool the respective OS’s support.

Though for WAN connections, I prefer tools with some redundancy/resilience, since those connections can be slow or experience drops, and regular copy tools aren’t designed to contend with that (in Windows the only tool I can think of off hand is Robocopy, but I think Teracopy will at least show you if a file copy fails).

It really depends on your use-case, what you’re trying to solve for.