Okay, fine, I'm going by anecdotes. But did you seriously just argue based on "I haven't read the same comments as you, it so it must not be true"?

Doesn't trust it to not fail catastrophically, or not break when you update your system. Slashdot is full of horror stories where a supposedly stable distribution switched to systemd, and systems that have operated for a decade suddenly failed to boot right. It's still experimental-quality.

You use prebuilt modules, you're not supposed to really hack or add your own. It's modular, not DIY.

It's getting harder and harder to find phones with hardware keyboards or decent battery life. Swap out the fancy graphics card for a second battery, and put a slide-out keyboard on the back, and I will be so, so happy.

I hope they have a keyboard. I'll be so disappointed if they don't.

Way overkill. UPSes are expensive to maintain if you need to replace a car battery every few years, they're very bulky which ruins the point of a tiny server that sits on a bookshelf, and they don't solve my problem of "I'd like to move it to a different shelf without losing power" unless I want to get a few people to carry around the UPS + everything attached to it. From my experience with large UPSes, just replacing batteries will cost more over the life of this machine than the computer would. I don't need to keep my internet online either--it'll come back up on its own when the power comes back on; for a home server I need to gently shut it down and bring it back online. I guess what I really want is a laptop...only with no keyboard or monitor. Surely there is a small portable laptop-battery kind of thing for machines without one, that you can put inline with the power cord...

My feelings towards big UPSes is that the battery only lasts a couple years, and costs a ton to replace. PiUPS looks pretty cool aside from the part where it only supplies enough power to run a Pi, so we'll see... ..."Input range — 10 to 15V DC"
Worth a look to see if I can get that out of it. Running on AAs is fine, especially given that I'm not actually too concerned about power surges or neighborhood outages. It's really just for planned outages in my use case, so "put a couple batteries in, unplug from wall, move, plug back in" is pretty darn close to ideal. I'll investigate if this'll do the job, thanks!

Lack of a case makes it a poor comparison. Sure, if you're in the mood to DIY things, maybe even trivially, it works. But the Fitlet is "buy and then place on a shelf". When prices are this low, the time and effort and money to find or make a case that'll fit this other thing is actually pretty significant relative to the final cost.

I really want one of these things, or something similar sized, for a tiny home server. The only issue I have with running a home server is that, with home renovations, we need to kill the power for a couple minutes now and then and I'd love to not have to shut down the server every single time...same with relocating it to a different shelf. Could someone recommend a tiny UPS suitable for these mini-servers, with lifetime in the neighborhood of an hour?

Are...are you kidding? Cities XL is barely a game. It has some really nice features that were innovative for its time, like free-drawing roads, but a lot of its implementations are complete and utter BS. Like, you have to zone regions based on social class. Part of the challenge of SimCity is that you can't directly control that. Natural resources are garbage... the supply/demand graphs of different zones have hardly any bounce or buffer zone and your citizens move in with no intelligence at all. If you build twice as much unskilled-labor residential than you need--probably because you're trying to plan your city out early--people will SWARM in, and then whine about how there's not enough jobs. Even the very first SimCity game made people only move in if there were jobs (+/- a fudge factor). This is a really huge problem because you have to micromanage your zoning and build it a little bit at a time, rotating through all different kinds. You can't prebuild or everyone goes ballistic. Oh yeah, and road widths. God damn it, road widths. Hey great, I can upgrade this three-lane to a four-lane!...if I bulldoze everything along it, because the game cares about road width down to the foot, and you aren't allowed to build small roads with extra buffer on the side for future expansion. Dump tons of money now to build the nice roads, or you're hosed later.

All of this leads to extremely formulaic gameplay. There's not much variation in what works, and it feels tedious to do. I spent a lot of hours trying to find the fun, on a couple different versions, and it wasn't there. Went back to SC4.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of acoustic keyloggers. Yeah they probably have tough restrictions on where they need to be placed to be effective, but you might luck out. Bet you could put one of those into this thing and remove the "wireless keyboard" requirement.

You'd normally be correct, but UI is the one place where they are fairly different. Speaking as a dev who's switched between C# and Java just about every job for the last ten years, that's the only thing that gives me a headache.

My last job was a Windows client that used Silverlight for its UI. It really made me appreciate how much I like Java web development.

What's the difference, data-mining wise, between having a Facebook account and willingly using your real name all over the place online? People are perfectly happy to do the latter. I don't see why those people would care about the former. (I guess there's tracking through facebook buttons all over the place, so maybe suppose that people have solid blockers for that.)

Are you sure you commented on the right story? I don't get it.

The vibrations don't travel instantly through the surrounding geology, so if you know instantly when a quake happens at the epicenter, you can still give meaningful warning to people in outlying areas. Also (as a non-geologist), I suppose there's probably patterns that show up before the biggest part of the quake...if you start feeling what seems like a 3.0, but your phone can alarm with "This is going to get up to an 8.0 in twenty seconds", it could save your life.

Making the generous assumption that this is a brain slip and not a troll, seconds don't normally go up to 60. They stay in the range of 0..59, which means there's sixty of them. Counting from 0 to 60, including the 0, gives you 61 seconds in that minute.