Author here: my first computer was actually TI-99, followed by a Coleco ADAM and a number of 8086/80286 systems that I used for a few years beyond their service

Author here: my first computer was actually TI-99, followed by a Coleco ADAM and a number of 8086/80286 systems that I used for a few years beyond their service dates because they were cast off from my dad's workplace. I put "toy" in quotes because it's pretty wild that you can effectively run a full-service, non-trivial site off 10W [¥] and ~$60 of hardware. I fully understand _why_ it's possible, but it still amazes me that this little board is doing what it would have took a 1U server in the 2000s. [¥] According to the Unifi PoE monitor, it's consuming 9.5W under this current HN load.