Fucking hell, that site a million partners who all have "legitimate interest". I've clicked on like a third of them and then gave up. I don't need their shit.

No, I meant the "Anna's archive" bit, and "seed for 2.1+ ratio" and turn it off and on again - what's that about?

(sorry for ressurecting the thread, not used to checking notifications here)

I think a lot of the relevant stuff is written on the blog post:

https://deno.com/blog/v2.0

Yes, in fact! Two main reasons.

• I wanted low-power, this is mostly gonna sit in the closet and serve files around. Even ARM CPUs like the RasPi can do that. But I didn't want it to be too weak, in case I wanted a simple service or two, this still has extra oomph. This isn't too powerful, but it is a 64-bit x86 CPU.

• I also wanted some ports. This has 4 SATA ports. It's supposed to be a NAS. It has a Gbit ethernet - I don't have a Gbit network at home so this is good enough for now, and I can expand it somewhat. It has USBs, expansion slots etc.

• those two combined resulted in a few selections, AsRock's mini-ITX boards with integrated CPUs are quite good choices in this space.

• I wanted low power consumption. I could have gone with a slightly stronger ‎J5040-ITX perhaps, but it's also using just slightly more power.

• it's also cheaper, the mobo with the CPU cost me 120€. The j5040 I mentioned would be a bit more - not a lot but still noticable.

• I wanted silent, and this board and CPU is passively cooled. If I had money, I would get SSDs for storage as well (less power, less noise) but it's a LOT more expensive.

I know there are other CPUs in this space but in the end you have to pick one so I did.

How did you find it for cable management?

Yes, the specs say less then 5W per HDD. Even if I had older and hungrier disks at 10W each, it's still good. The CPU is consuming about 10 watts, the rest of the board, let's say another 10. Even if I fill all six HDD slots that the case has room for, I think it would work.

Good thing I'm not gonna run Chrome on this :)

Well, look at these few things:

1. Modern CPUs, even Celerons, are powerful. People are driving a lot of workload even on ARM CPUs, and this is a proper 4-core x64 CPU. I mean, look at your phone, it's most likely doing a lot of full-hd media, right? And it's doing just fine.

2. Most commercially-available Home/Small Office NAS systems, by Synology, Asustor, QNAP and others, they have either CPUs in this class, or weaker, ARM CPUs. I'm not gonna be sitting at this box. I have 3 desktops and 3 laptops around the house for work - this is gonna be mostly storage.

3. My planned media management workload is a bit different than media processing. I mostly want to serve files around, maybe transcode something in the background. I don't plan to watch movies off of this (yet). I have a 4-core Hetzner VPS that is similar in power to this, and it's driving something like 4-5 docker containers and still serving all the files.

I think it's gonna be fine, but we shall see.

I like the case a lot. It surprised me as it was bigger than expected and than it looked like, but I should have seen it coming. For one, it has room for a full-blown PSU (and I have the PicoPSU), and for two, I picked it because it has room for 6 3.5" HDDs.

But it's still pretty small, it's nice enough that my wife would let me keep it in a living room :)

I've ran into Drone CI about a year ago and I like it. I wanted to self-host something simple next to my gitea instance, and after a few hours I had it mostly set up. And in the course of a week I had it all figured out, I don't bother with it any more.

It's basically hands-free operation the way I have it set up, works with my gitea as said so I'm happy.

Yeah, there was a bit of discussion about that on Lobsters :)

I agree, there are several good starting points. But I think it's more important what the OP said about his understanding of it. I think this is a lot more important - WHY do you use plugins, HOW they help you, WHAT can they do. Like, autoimport like vscode does? Autohighlight problems? Check. Check. Autofix linting issues? Check. Find files? Check. Search the project? Check. There's a lot of things that can make your experience way better. Look up some videos. E.g. this one (if you can ignore some twitch memes, I found them mostly fun or tolerable).

Also, when you give up on vim, come back again. It's something that can take many iterations to really "get". Even if things don't work out, try again in a few years.

Also, as an alternative to VSCode, try some native editor. I personally used sublime - for weak machines, it's way better on resources then VSCode and it's electron baggage.