Not initial replier, but I too immediately assumed you were an American who didn’t vote for him.

Likely because of all the, people, we had running around Canada for five or so years saying “Trudeau isn’t my Prime Minister!”, amongst other more colourful anti-Trudeau slogans.

Help, help, I’m being repressed!

I thought it might be interpreted as mean spirited

ngl, it is, a touch, but, I mean, seriously, “no it’s ok because capitalism and don’t tell people or they’ll kill themselves” lol, um, wut? lol … there is no other way to respond to that.

I’ll bring it back just for you!

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lol why’d you delete? that was on point. I hit upvote and ‘poof’ it was gone. :-(

LOL!!

The original station was called “City TV”, they had a news program called “City Pulse”. In the late 90s/early 00s they launched a 24h news channel and called it “Cable Pulse 24”. At some point along the journey they shortened to that unfortunate name that I will now not ever be able to see and not laugh!!

I mostly agree, and did the same with my second gen lab build - instead of shiny new NUCs like I had used round 1, I bought old off lease Dell Xeon boxes. SO MANY PROS -

• Got them up to 14c/28t each
• They can take GPUs and actually do heavy transcoding/ML work
• They can take up to like, 128GB of memory, which is GREAT when they’re all hypervisors

The downsides can’t be denied though -

• Even without the GPUs and beefed up CPUs, they are power hogs - the CPU alone uses more than an ENTIRE NUC
• They run HOT
• They run LOUD

The same holds true for off-lease SFF stuff, Lenovo and the likes …

So while reuse/repurpose is absolutely of the utmost importance, no question - when it comes to technology and how quickly it advances and miniaturizes, a thorough and logical pros/cons list is often required.

I’d add another option though - if you do need what a Pi brings to the table - do you really need a shiny new Pi 5? Is it possible a used Pi 3 or Pi 4 would do the trick, and check the reuse box?