Guy put Postgres on a 5400 rpm laptop drive, wondered why Immich took 24 seconds to load, then “discovered” a $20 SSD fixes it — 95x faster, stop the presses. The rest is him learning that a 100 Mbps Realtek port from 2011 is slow and a dual-core Celeron is bad at math.

Great call out on the irony. So true. Welcome to the future.

What OS are you running?

~500 watts continuous.

This is good EU related info. Ugh - now I’m going to spend the time thinking about this. Good info though TY. I use proton mail btw … but I’m considering running my own mail server again for non essential domains I own.