If OP just wants it for personal use, running it on WiFi should be fine.

Back in my day our parents just gave us cash to buy anything we wanted anywhere.

Yeah, it’s a lot easier to just make it a habit and doing it everywhere instead of overthinking the context.

I’m guessing they’re betting on the tariffs being short lived like the previous times.

I mean, it’s patching a security issue caused by trusting headers it shouldn’t, so I don’t think they should wait for a big number release.

And it really feels like none of those Republicans have a sense of smell. This lady probably reeks of cigarette smoke, and Trump reportedly literally smells like shit.

Yeah, the code history is the easiest thing to migrate. The other stuff like issues relies on having a good exporting/importing tool on both sides.

Nah, it’s just lint and other crap getting into the port. You can clean the USB-C ones easier than the micro-USB ones, but eventually they all go.

Yeah, the USB port on all my phones was the first thing to go, and then you’re just stuck doing the stupid little dance of getting the cable to go in at the exact right angle to get it to charge. With wireless (especially with MagSafe), you just put it on the charger and you never need to worry about cables. I’ve got a plug on my USB port to keep dirt out now.

My answer would basically be yes, but. An old desktop (or even laptop) can definitely be used and will run fine. It should be very easy to get one for free or very cheap as companies will typically write them off after 3-5 years.

However, you might want to consider power consumption. Running a desktop 24/7 will use a lot more power than a new MiniPC or a NUC, so you may want to calculate how much it’ll cost to run a desktop 24/7 compared to a device that only uses 5W or whatever, and see whether the upfront savings make up for what you’ll pay in electricity over a certain period.

I think you might actually want to look into second hand MiniPCs unless you absolutely need to fit a bunch of hard drives in a case (like you probably would with Jellyfin).

Also I want to echo what others are saying about noise. A desktop or rack mounted server will make more noise than a laptop or MiniPC.

Yeah, he thinks of everything in terms of real estate value. Like the way he talked about Gaza, as if the people of Gaza are incapable of building stuff themselves if they hadn’t been under a blockade for almost a century.

Might be just someone wanting to highlight an architecture issue that allows someone to spam everyone.

It is showing that there’s a lot of work to be done to deal with the spam issue. It’s basically relying on every individual instance admin to moderate their stuff and defederate from other instances that drop the ball. If Lemmy gets big enough for spammers to really try to attack it, the admins will quickly get overwhelmed.

I’m assuming they know, and it’s a satire of DOGE.

I guess it would be nice to plop a magnetic battery pack on your doorbell to charge it. My ring doorbell has a USB port in the back and in most cases you need to take it off completely to charge it inside.

They were designed to be only used for the administration of social security. Since they were sending monthly checks, they needed a way to know that the person going to the office and saying their address changed was who they said they were. This was at a time before driver’s licences were common and they didn’t have any other type of ID, and there were just a lot fewer people.

Later on the SSN started to be used by banks and other entities even though it was never meant for that, and the risks associated with the relatively insecure design just compounded, because instead of just fraudulently claiming someone else’s social security checks (which, unless the target died, would probably be figured out within a month), it opened up all sorts of extra avenues for fraud.

Yeah, I never really got why everyone jumped at Kanye for that in particular. The response to Katrina was ridiculous and there were plenty of instances where black people were left to fend for themselves, or worse, accused of ‘looting’ when they tried to go out and find food in stores that closed down after days of seeing nothing from the government.

Obviously, everything that happened after is indefensible.

Pretty sure that was already something they announced that they’d do.

The only ‘transparency’ he’s shown is screenshots of basic spreadsheets that don’t actually clarify anything. His minions are just sending him spreadsheets extracted from systems they don’t understand, and he’s just making decisions based on whether the title of the program sounds woke or not.

It’s going to be fun when he fucks with some Wall Street Equity fund’s money.

Yep, the actual competence was basically in the army (inherited from a long military tradition), so it’s important that those generals don’t cave.