Debian started signing their repository packages way back in 2007 with the release of Debian 4.0. Yet somehow we have gone backwards when it comes to validation of downloaded software in recent years.
My current home server, a Raspberry Pi4 with 4GiB RAM is running out of memory and i wondered whether i could convert my existing desktop PC into a home server. The Pi4 with a SSD connected over USB consumes only 7.1W at idle and 9.9W at load. Before i replace the Pi with the desktop, i wanted to check if it could achieve low power consumption at idle.
While my Operating System is installed on a SSD, i install games like Factorio on my HDD. When running on a hard disk, Factorio takes a long time to startup and show the main menu. A significant percentage of that time is spent on IO, reading the game assets from the slow hard disk.
In every indoors farm I’ve seen, the lights used were full spectrum, high power consumption LEDs, kept at a distance away from the plant. I wanted to try out what would happen if a low power, cheap, closely placed LEDs were used instead.