even in low power mode, just your spinning HDD already consumes more than the whole stick computer That's why I spin down the drive and all cron jobs run to a

even in low power mode, just your spinning HDD already consumes more than the whole stick computer That's why I spin down the drive and all cron jobs run to a ram disk. The actual power-pig on my computer is the video card. I could and probably should find a used video card that is less powerful as I barely use a tiny fraction of this GPU's capabilities. Either way I am happy with where I landed in this setup. When this rig gives out I may switch to a mini-pc or use one of my spare protectli firewalls as my daily driver.