Warzone 2100 (you can download for free as it is an old PC game that went GPL)

gets more on the nose by the day

That is just the gateway drug to bootstrapping.

Check out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

if you want the real hard stuff.

They already did: https://www.commanderx16.com/

you just probably want something better.

and that is the problem building higher performance requires more advanced lithography and that is expensive and until recently was not even an option for a hobbyist (without taking a mortgage on their house).

Given current stagnation, you need only wait about 10 years for that viable option.

rxvt-unicode with tabbedex.

I refuse to use a terminal emulator that needs more than 100MB of RAM to display 80x24 green text on a black display

checksums at the filesystem level does nothing to protect against memory corruption which can overwrite everything on your disk with null values and a matching checksum; fail to write anything to disk and/or do nothing.

But that is the gamble you take every day with every GB of RAM you have.

the correct answer is Gemini or gopher.

No ECC, absolutely worthless for a NAS if you care about your data.

Raid stopped being optimal now that btrfs and ZFS exist.

If you plan on doing matching drives ZFS is recommended

If you expect mismatched disks, btrfs will work.

If you are most worried about stability get a computer with ECC memory.

If you are most worried about performance, use SSD drives.

If you want a bunch of storage for cheap, use spinning disks (unless you exceed the 100TB capacity range)

So effectively light enough that it could run on a raspberry PI 4. Well that would put you under 10W

Well the first question is what software you NEED to run, then we can figure out hardware.

Your ZFS backup strategy should be to follow one of the following rulesets:

3-2-1 [3 copies of the data at 2 different locations for the 1 purpose of preserving the data]

4-3-2-1 [4 copies of the data at 3 different locations in 2 different types of media for the 1 purpose of preserving the data]

5-4-3-2-1 [5 copies of the data at 4 different locations across 3 different continents in 2 different types of media for the 1 purpose of preserving the data]

The details of the backup is more if you have a second system to enable ZFS send/receive or if you have to transport deltas from ZFS send

I am assuming you are referring to: https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

The big companies are ignoring the sector and just plan on buying the most profitable startups that look promising.

So ignore the fortune 1000 entirely and invest in smaller companies that are hiring engineers in chemistry if your goal is to invest effectively in battery technology.

But you are missing the advances in metallurgy (superconducting metals are making great strides), mechanical engineering (flywheel technology is taking advantage of new micro-controlled magnetic bearings) and physics.

well as you can buy solar panels at $0.50/W so a 10W panel can be obtained for $5 and a raspberry pi4 only uses 2.7W while idle and 6.4W when under full load.

Efficient is sexy

Guess they now know the value of having the 4 freedoms https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html the hard way

You might already for example they might not even call themselves terms you would think:

https://www.cleanrefillery.com/

You can also reach out to manufacturers to buy in bulk and split the costs (and the items) with friends/neighbors.

I guess a discussion on shared meaning of what it means to die would be needed to understand if not dying as possible future/current/previous state in the universe and directly address your request to change your mind.

foolish of you to think that is a bad thing.

There is no greater hell than immortality.

Really looking forward to seeing this packaged in Guix