The Intel N100 is the performance of an 8th gen i5 at drastically lower power draw and includes the iGPU media engine that was included in 12th-14th gen chips. That can handle 4K media transcoding including h.265 HEVC and AV1 decoding in hardware.

I ran a 2nd gen SandyBridge monolith system with storage and services for near a decade. And that got long in the tooth and struggled to transcode.

I've moved to using TrueNAS for storage as I determined having storage on its own layer is fine as storage capacity is the bottleneck there and I can keep hardware around for longer. I keep that system as just storage using a Z-RAID2 with ZFS and some offsite replication for important data. I have a desktop backup service as a Docker app, and a VM running ProxMox Backup Server hosted on the TrueNAS as I feel those are really just storage.

I then run ProxMox on the Mini PC and have separate LXC containers for each service. If I find I need more compute I can always get an extra PC or a more powerful one and migrate the containers. I've been able to spin up new services to trial run and get rid of ones I don't like.

If things do south I can build an entirely new ProxMox host, point it at the ProxMox Backup Server and be back up and running in ~15-30 mins.

Which CPU are you using? Pre-Skylake CPUs should still have an iGPU and support some level of hardware transcoding.

I switched to having a separate N5095 based NAS, with an N100 based mini PC as the application host. The N100 can do hardware 4K and HDR tone mapping and sips 6W of power and spikes that max out around 15W. My overall max power of both system is in the mid 60Ws with the majority of that being spinning rust.

RAM and storage prices have currently killed off the cheap Mini PC. But they used to be ~$130 for a complete system with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of NVME storage. Rarely do you save money by lowering power usage. But that price to performance did in only a handful of months.

There were those studies that found a day out in the woods equaled two months worth of therapy. Sounds like those city dwellers need to take that advice they are always giving and go touch grass.

They aren't "learning" computers. They are learning "on" computers. I've heard from some high schools that students are learning on arduinos on the like.

But for most students the computers and tablets are just replacing worksheets and books.

So we have a generation that's the most exposed to tech at an early age, yet are the least literate when it comes to understanding "how" it all works.

One thing I never saw was confirmation that your body ever stopped creating the proteins after any period of time. If it doesn't your immune system reacting to something your body is producing is an auto immune disorder.

Being able to design new proteins in short periods of time is great. But why does that need to occur in the human body itself? Doesn't the current flu vaccine get produced in something like eggs? Couldn't bacteria or something be reprogrammed with the mRNA and then the protein that is produced gets harvested and used as a vaccine?

As with all "westernized" countries that are looking at population cliffs. Hopefully policies can be enacted that promote people having more or even at least one child.

Right now things are far too overpriced, with a lot of uncertainly. With the proper policies and support that could be changed.

But this isn't just a US problem. Most of Europe, and the "westernized" Asian countries like Japan and Korea are also experiencing this exact same problem.

But when you have young people coming out of college with hundreds of thousands in debt who aren't finding jobs or housing. They generally hold off on starting families. And those that do will limit their size to be smaller than they'd like without economic constraints.

The big issues with the GPU is many don't have active cooling, instead expecting a front to back airflow to exhaust fresh air across it.

So you need some fairly forceful directed air movement. You can rig up things, but it won't be just plug this desktop GPU into the motherboard and connect PCIe power and you're all set.

The problem is that even when the bubble pops there won't be a flood of hardware for people to buy for pennies on the dollar. The memory isn't in the correct form factor for desktop use.

So manufacturing needs to switch what they are supply, so there was be a multi month lag before the supply hits the market as new products.

Or just. "Sounds like things are going well. I recommend taking this new girl to Taco Bell where you can get the new chalupa double stack. Available for a limited time."

Exactly, running in a VM to support specialized hardware that can't be ran under a supported version of Windows. React is at least supported versus needing to segment XP and manually transport files over physical media.

General desktop usage, or trying to run an application have so many other options. It doesn't make sense sticking with React for those use cases.

The latest releases of WINE and Proton are doing amazing things. Then looking at FEX-Emu running native 32 & 64-bit Windows software on an ARM Linux PC and having the performance to play modern games.

That said. React could serve some purpose in terms of compatibility. There are still XP installs in many manufacturing and medical research faculties due to multi million dollar devices that don't have drivers for anything new.

If React could run on modern hardware, while still supporting these older devices, it could be fill a niche. Though VMs can handle that, but the issue is you're still running XP. Maybe just React in a VM ends up being the go to.

Will you still feel good when it fails in the middle of a snow storm and you're unable to drive your own car?

It's was a bad law when it was passed, and it's still bad today. It wasn't "use this proved technology", it's figure out something to do this, oh you have X years to get it in every vehicle.

There's still no reliable way for this to function correctly.

Please share some specific examples of culture then.

Because apparently telling stories, and tales of made up heroes which have been a way to pass information from before the invention of the written word isn't culture. Even when it is passed around the entire world and shapes other forms of art.

How is the story a TV show provides any different from a movie or book? There have been tons of trash movie over the past 100 years, and many, many more trash books over the last several hundred years. Go back even further with trash plays, songs, and dances, etc.

But no, things that shape language and that extend through out society aren't cultural.

Exactly, if you are ignoring that Hollywood just keeps pushing out worse and worse crap nobody cares about at an accelerated pace. You're missing the primary reason for the decrease.