You don’t get security updates.

You can get something new, install Linux, or you can also just choose to not care.

I have an N100 box for my router and it’s great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They’re never great, but I can definitely tell I’m getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don’t expect the greatest performance.

A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I’ve been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.

The 6000 series from AMD were so great because they picked the correct process node. Nvidia went with the far inferior Samsung 8nm node over TSMCs 7. Yet Nvidia still kept up with AMD in most areas (ignoring ray tracing).

Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD’s cards in most markets.

The “disastrous” Fermi cards were also compute monsters. Even after the 600 series came out people were buying the 500 series over them because they performed so much better for the money. Instead of picking up a Kepler Quadra card in order to get double precision you could get a regular ass GTX 580 and do the same thing.

You’re going to get fired. That’s a personal risk.

Doing nothing costs a whole lot more than doing something, and then potentially risking getting sued.

Also no random manager is going to take that personal risk. They get paid like 40k a year.

This is the same as complaining that my job puts a filter on my work computer that lets them know if I’m googling porn at work.

That is an extreme leap what the fuck.

Network filters that block certain domains.

Vs

Key logger that tracks everything you type into the computer, even things you’ve deleted.

To license the arcitecture it costs a whole lot less, but when it comes to getting an actual usable computer they cost the same or more as an ARM machine, and perform worse.

For micro controllers (currently) it’s great.

plus

“One of the things about Horse Armour that you have to remember is Bethesda, I believe, was the very first company to do downloadable content expansions,” Nesmith told us. “Nobody had done that before for the platforms. We literally pioneered that. And so Bethesda didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time. We didn’t know!”

“it keeps getting faster and faster” isn’t really saying much when it’s 1/10th the performance of a raspberry pi.

It’s amazing what a modern process node and not cranking clock speeds to high hell will do.

After switching to Mac OS I have 0 interest in using Linux on my actual conputer. I still have windows machine for work, and my servers are all Linux. But any machine I want to use is gonna run Mac.

Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.

Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.

That usually involves replacing drives, and drives get expensive fast. Synogy and all the other NAS makers won’t make a >4 bay NAS without charging an arm and a leg for them. Then there’s the cost of replacing a perfectly good hard drive with another of a large capacity. And because you want redundancy that doesn’t mean just one drive, that meant at least 2 possibly all 4 drives.

Do you not go to work?

If it’s a phone I wouldn’t want it left on my porch. But literally anything else? Leave it there. I don’t want to go out of my way to pick up a USB cable that was ordered online.

You still have to pay for the cell service to connect the car. That’s going to cost a whole lot more than $1

That sounds positively awful to me. If I’m home by 6, finish eating by 7 then I can’t do anything at night.

Don’t force them to work at the middle of the night.

What if they want to work in the middle of the night. I miss night shifts.

Docker requires hardware virtualization so kinda but not really. Apparently it runs inside of a VM so that’s a no go.

Honestly I think you’re asking way too much for a VPS, or even a full blown server. If you want to run CAD software you’ll also want a remotely capable GPU and you won’t get that in a server unless you’ve explicitly put something in it. The built in GPUs in servers are like radeon 3450s that are 15 years old and are basically just video adapters and not actual “graphics processing units”. If you have your own server I’d throw a GPU in there and try running your software there. But honestly any remotely modern laptop will probably run faster than a cheap rented server.

Docker Desktop for Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM).

Looks like you’d still need virtualization.