Feel like this would have made a great theme for Photoshop battles

I have a big enough house to be able to put this machine somewhere out of the way but there are plenty of cheap server gear on classifieds. I paid ish 300 euros for a 32 core machine with 40gb ram. I can host all the things without it even breaking a sweat.

Probably uses a lot more electricity, but I haven’t really noticed it on my power bill

I swapped to Linux for similar reasons many years ago. The initial idea was to hedge and get familiar with it so I had peace of mind. I ended up staying in the Linux sphere for most of my devices , except for my music production machine that still run windows.

I hope a fair few move over, but I’m afraid the number of 3rd party app users is lower than we anticipate

Yeah, it really sounds a bit low. I’m not sure what else goes into these containers. I assume there might also be a bunch of portable equipment and cabling that goes into moving the data in and out of the container? Power infrastructure and cooling and what probably takes up quite a bit of space as well.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyirISpUAAA__xV.jpg

Reminds me of AWS Snowmobile, which is literally a shipping container filled with harddrives.