That's actually exactly the reason why I didn't upgrade. I have miniITX board with a very low TDP CPU and there's not been anything as efficient as this one.
If you mean that faster hardware can do tasks faster: this thing has no problem running all the services I want/need, which includes some game servers.
If you are counting costs of power, also factor in the cost of new hardware as opposed to the one you have around or can be secondhand for cheap.
The missing link is networking. You can use VPNs all you want, but in the end you're using an uplink to your ISP who can shut it down at any moment. Some countries turn off the internet when things get rowdy, so it's already in the playbook.
Was looking into a mesh last year, but I'd be a floating island. Can't transmit long range, this angers the people in charge, too. Not sure how to overcome this part.
Does the message become invalid if someone wrote a bit and then asked an llm to rewrite it because they are not confident in their writing? These people are ashamed to admit they do this because of the backlash they get here, but let this be one of the only good use cases of llms, and it's what they're good at.
For hardware? You don't have to use top of the line hardware to host these things. My homelab if you want to call it that is nearly 10 years old in terms of hardware, but the software is up to date.
"Recall was met with serious backlash". Meanwhile I'm looking for a simple setting regarding the power button on my wife's phone and stumble upon a setting that is enabled by default that has Gemini scanning the screen and using it for whatever it is that it does, but my wife doesn't use any AI features on her device. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically the same as Recall? Google was just smart enough to silently roll this out.
For a while now pages load "at once" as if it's a single thing to load, but back in the day you could actually see pages load in parts. If things were dire you could turn off image loading, or simply click the stop loading button because the content you wanted was loaded, just not the whole page.
Poor thing