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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to t... by dirheist on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:35PM (#33833729)
That's fair, but I have a half a dozen servers sitting in a colo with networking/energy/cooling included in the lease agreement so energy is not a concern.

I usually just run game servers with the extra RAM/cpu threads for my friends. If my elasticsearch cluster is particularly unused some days and I have extra bandwidth I might turn on wireguard and let the 450GB disk of torrents I have on disk seed. Anything that makes the btop graph look active and lively makes me feel nice.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to t... by ambicapter on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:40PM (#33833799)
> so energy is not a concern.

You're talking about paying for energy, some people are concerned about consuming energy.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to t... by vineyardmike on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:41PM (#33834807)
> I might turn on wireguard and let the 450GB disk of torrents I have on disk seed

Your colo does that mind this use?

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