The stick is better for movement, while the pads are better for aiming. And the buttons work fine where they are.

Arguably the left side pad is a bit useless for gaming itself, but its nice to have two pads for desktop navigation and using the on screen keyboard that is build into steam.

Yes, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Controller

Steam controller obviously (for everything other than retro gaming which often requires a dpad).

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1004/xppen-artist-pro-16-gen-2-review-on-gnulinux

Edit: ah, I should read the OP 🤦‍♂️

For example in a country with actual privacy laws that also get enforced… like most of the EU or several east Asian countries.

Apple runs their own advertisement network these days. Its pointless to argue that they sell less data when they themselves still collect all of it for their own advertisement purposes.

Especially from a privacy record, they actually have a far superior history than essentially every other hardware manufacturer out there.

That’s what their marketing department wants you to believe. But basically all independent investigations into that have concluded that Apple is no better, just that they collect all the data themselves rather than allowing you to have it collected by Facebook etc.

If you look into their privacy policy etc. its very obvious that they exclude all their own surveillance advertisement and privacy invasive stuff from the limits imposed on others. If they truly cared about privacy they would not make these exceptions for themselves.

Storage expansion options are the one thing mini-pcs are bad for, so not really any great options there.

You could get a m2 to SATA adapter board, but getting the additional drives powered if you don’t have a ATX PSU isn’t fun.

And yes, use USB only for rarely accessed data.

And in addition they run big adverts on caring about privacy, while in reality they do the same shit as all the other tech companies, but just use their monopoly power to push out surveillance advertisement competitors.

No, I am European and I am painfully aware of the right-wing ursupation of the originally anarchist term “libertarian” in the USA.

I’m not sure I like the idea of relays instead of instances.

Relay operators hold almost the same power as AP instance operators, but are much less visible to public scrutiny and accountability for their actions.

That’s an interesting point. Where are you quoting this from?

They are in the USA, just not of the specific MAGA lunacy.

The point is rather that RISC-V is only open-specifications and most available chip designs are not open-source or only partially so in the open-hardware sense.

No one would claim that the Ethernet specifications are open-hardware, yet you see the same (false) claim for RISC-V all the time.

Yes, but open-specifications doesn’t mean open-hardware.

This kind of naive and simplistic view of inflation is long debuked. Maybe read up on current thoughts: https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/

You need to first explain what you want the server for, because that will give us an idea of your CPU and storage requirements.

It is true that if you need a lot of space at some point 3.5" are going to be more efficient per GB, but usually people don’t need hundreds of terabyte storage in a home NAS.

For normal applications in a home NAS that mostly sits idle, 2.5" drives run at about 1W and most are design to be able to be powered by normal USB, meaning 2.5W max.

3.5" drives on the other hand are usually designed for datacenter use, where power efficiency is a low priority and they usually take 5-10W in normal operation and and easily 15W when spinning up.

The 2.5" drives are significantly more power efficient, often by a factor of 10. They also tend to be less noisy and produce less heat.

So in a small form factor NAS that isn’t under heavy load, 2.5” drives are usually the better option.

Yes, restarting Lemmy somehow resets the memory use of the database as well.