@whitequark A sane strategy for raw compute!
I wish I could do the same for driver development, which requires a lot of exotic hardware.
My costs right now are about 200€/year worth of electricity.
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Martin Roukala (né Peres)
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thinking about how foreign the concept of an "upgrade cycle" is to me.@whitequark Unstable is not gonna cut it, indeed. Loud is also a stopper for appartments (I have them in the basement, two floors away from bedrooms).
As for power, all these machines are off unless they are testing code. The baseline power usage is about 40W when the screen is off.
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thinking about how foreign the concept of an "upgrade cycle" is to me.@whitequark What? People don't repurpose their old computers for CI?
My 12 years old desktop computer (i7 4790) is there, from 2 upgrades ago. So is my previous PC and some friend's old test machine 🤣
The steam decks are pre-production units from me and my colleagues. Only the NUCs and SBCs were somewhat bought for the purpose.
Hopefully, #ci_tron will enable more devs to share their old machines with the world for Linux testing, thus keeping it working for longer.