If the dude was so tone deaf and myopic I’d post a bad review on yelp

Nah, do the work yourself.

I’m not outraged, I’m telling you “Your position that they are acting normally, or ethically, or optimally or whatever your position is, is dumb.”

Learn how to read man.

No no no lawyer came knocking at my door begging me to darn a sock

You are right, nothing is relevant except bootlicking corps

I don’t think you are able to grok the actual issue, which is a big corp demanding free work, then demanding a pittance to complete the work, then being buthurt when people refuse to work with them.

Preprogrammed kill limit

For what you have going on, a used laptop would be great. Pick one up with a broken screen, and take out the magnet in the lid. Most laptops use a hall sensor or reed switch to tell when the lid is closed and send a sleep signal.

The one issue with pi is that you can’t use some x86 server software. I have a seafile instance for by NAS and that was a pain to get running on my pi4

I have a proliant 2u and I punched a hole in the wall between my office and garage just to get it out of earshot.

I’m going to disagree on RAM. If you have some cast-off hardware like I do, maxing out the ram is the cheapest way to get older hardware performing decently.

Well I hope he’ll accept a holoscan for measurements.