Sounds nice, but yes, uses quite a bit of power.

I should measure mine - I have a Ryzen 5900 (24t, 64MB … some 20k cinebench score) as the main, and a Core 12700 (16+4t, 12MB).
(And Intel gen 7 and 2 at my patents. All of them proxmoxed.)

Never ever managed to bottleneck anything on them, not really, but got them super cheap used.

Buying anything server/enterprise that powerful would cost me a lot of moneys. And prob have two CPUs which doubles a lot of power hungry bits.

Isn’t that a bit like buying an old truck instead of a year old Miata?

Afaik those CPUs use so much juice when idling … sure, you dont get all them lanes or ECC, but a PC at the same price with a few year old CPU outclasses that CPU by a lot & at a fraction of the running cost (also quietly).

Just something to keep in mind as an alternative, especially when you don’t intend to fill all the pcie bussy (several users with several intensive tasks that benefit from wider bus to RAM & PCI even with a slow CPU).
Ok, and you miss out on some fancy admin stuff, but … it’s just for home use …

I’m barely people.

The highways are even worse.

Yeah, good advice.

For my parents house with NAS in their living room I still use WD Red Plus (not Red Pro), so pleasant & quiet (which was basically my only concern). But smol. Can’t find new ones as quiet tho.

How is the noise?
Did you make any model selection based on that?

Maybe we don’t know everything yet & thats just employees and/or company covering for themselves.
Seafolk likes to talk about mermaids & evil sentient autopilots.

Tho not having 3 minutes of buffer at the start of the journey/when hitting autopilot sounds wild.
Unless this was autopilot for the port, but the pic doesn’t seem like it.

Also, I was under the impression that any autopilots from the least 50 years were dynamic (ie at least manoeuvering between gps locations, not holding fixed azimuths for certain periods of time), but I don’t actually know much about big ships.

Edit:
The vid explains it, they were already at speed (13kn) and along the shoreline when the unclear new system caused the ship to steer into land (bcs software otherwise has no issues with traveling over land, wtf).

They completed the same journey with the new system 80+ times but I understand how they didn’t know the ‘execute’ confirmation of autopilots actions (thats necessary, like with train conductors) can skip waypoints like that depending on location.

And yes, anther fuck in this clusterfuck was the two minutes of figuring out what’s happening & trying to get the controls back.

If you turn that hard into land I imagine it pretty hard to save/stop the ship before beaching.

The thing is, ‘the bridge team did not know that to take back control they needed to hold the button for 5 seconds’ …
(Sounds like they weren’t power users or gamers … 3 people trying to figure out how to press their takeover buttons)

After that it took 40s for engines to reverse (because they are big fans) and the bow thrusters to come on.

The ship was only very slightly damaged (that bulb only, basically could sail onwards, but they prob decided it’s better to check everything before doing so as they were in a safe position to do so).
They only needed two tugs to pull it back, then it sailed to powder it’s bulbous nose.
No injuries.

Oh, wow, this is beautiful!