fuzzy_tinker

1st, do not power the fan from the pi if possible to avoid any underpower headaches. It should be fine.

Your best bet is to just power it at 5v using a standard USB wall wart and a sacrificial USB cable (old 2.0 ones work best). Strip the USB cable and expose the positive and negative wires and hook them up to the positive and negative fan pins (identify these using a 4pin fan header diagram). You can either try just shoving the tips of the USB cable into the fan header using electrical tape as a quick bodge, or cut and strip the fan cables and twist them together.

This is what Edison motors is doing and it looks like a great solution for the medium term while we wait for battery density and charging solutions to get better.

So the same companies that outsourced everything and cut local suppliers to the point that they shut down are now complaining about not having local suppliers or modern infrastructure? Talk about being short sighted.

To answer your question, yes that PSU looks like it should work. I’m not sure I would use this PSU for my NAS due to the quality of the manufacturer being unknown, but generally it should be fine so long as it is not mission critical.

Also if you have access to a 3d printer, there are some great designs for external drive cages to keep them safe and cool.

This is fantastic and I appreciate that it scales well on the server side.

Ai scraping is a scourge and I would love to know the collective amount of power wasted due to the necessity of countermeasures like this and add this to the total wasted by ai.

Every spring there are fewer bugs in our garden, and walking around we see signs on half our neighbors lawns warning about pesticide application. It’s ridiculous that on top of the agricultural pesticide use, we even allow residential use… FOR GRASS.

The pollinator garden is coming along nicely though in our yard, and it is one of the busier ones in our area which is nice.