I run a 2019 Dell OptiPlex SFF desktop as my ESXi box - it idles under 20w with multiple Linux and Windows VM’s (4 are standard, besides the ad-hoc ones for testing stuff).

Hard to beat the idle combined with performance when needed. Pi really doesn’t compare.

What are you trying to do?

In the business world, this would be your business requirements. Once you have those then you can spec the technical requirements.

Without having a target, you’ll just be all over the place.

Start with one thing, get that setup, get management for it in place, backup processes, etc.

Then do the next thing.

Iceberg made a great rec - start with Jellyfin. It’s pretty easy, but touches on all sorts of stuff like storage, backups (which media is worth backing up?), etc. Plus it has a high reward - watching what you want, when you want, from almost any device.

Read up on cortisone - related cartilage/tendon concerns.

Your doc probably overstates the risk a great deal. Check NLM for studies, it looks like there’s a risk, but all the studies are of patients with injury and on-going degeneration. By the time you get to injections you’ve exhausted other treatments.

No.

And being the southwest wearing a hat outside isn’t really a choice, unless you like a sunburned scalp.

I wear a hat because I don’t like a sunburned scalp

Yes

1. Use proper capitalization

2. Don’t attack people when they state they’re trying to understand what you’re saying, like you just did here with HikingVet.

You’re the issue here, as you demonstrated the exact same behaviour here with HikingVet, and are looking to blame others.

The problem is CapEx vs OpEx.

It’s because doi g things on site requires CapEx, which then increases your tax liability.

By going SaaS, you offload the entirety of risk.

The problem is the morons who sign these contracts are fucking clueless about ensuring the liability is strong.

This isn’t about restrictiveness - it’s a problem of RCS being ass-backwards garbage.

This isn’t a an Android issue, it’s a Google and cell provider issue. And that RCS (like SMS), are based on ancient technology/concepts, and both need to just die.

SMS is based on the physical architecture of cellular networks, and has no error handling whatsoever - it’s a Best Effort transmission.

RCS uses a hardware-bound ID, something we decided was a Bad Idea 40 years ago, and is wholly dependent on cell provider support.

We have a protocol, TCP-IP, that eliminates all these issues. It’s been the networking standard since the mid-90’s when even Netware decided it was a superior solution to IPX/SPX. It’s wholly hardware independent (it’s not tied to a physical device’s ID), so you can transmit/receive from any device without having to update everyone else that this is your new device.

We have numerous IP-based instant messaging systems today, with one in particular (XMPP) being open, flexible, extensible.

There’s no use for an archaic solution like RCS, except keeping your messaging in a system controlled by Google and carriers.

No, it isn’t massive for privacy.

It’s hardware-bound, meaning at a minimum who you’re communicating with and when will always be known, today and in the future.

And I haven’t seen anything showing that it has Perfect Forward Secrecy, so all someone has to do is save the messages and if it’s ever cracked, they’ll know exactly what you said, when, and which device.

It’s a feel good to make people think something is being done, when it’s far from “good”.

BTW, hardware-bound ID was determined to be a bad idea 40 years ago. Even SPX moved away from it in the 90’s.

Now that’s just mean!

(Enjoy my upvote, haha)

What’s a “Google”? 😝

There’s essentially Lineage (formerly Cyanogen, or a fork of it) and Graphene.

Ignore /e/ OS - it’s Lineage with their crap on it.

Go read about those two.

RCS is so backwards it’s not a step in the right direction.

It’s hardware bound - which tells me they want definite tracking capability.

Wow, that page has so much crap on it that it crashes because I block the crap.

Stopped using reddit years ago.

Never once used WhatsApp, and refuse to.

Same with a bunch of other social media sites.

YouTube - only use it to download high quality Vida using other tools, like Grayjay, Newpipe, and YT-DL.

Hahahaha, thanks for that.

A brilliant joke that will last forever!

My pronouns are fuck you AI