I understand, but the point is that older x86 are power intensive. So OK to have fun as desktop machine, but not as server running H24... I do use old computer as main Linux machine... I call them "ordinosaure" in french :-) like computosaure... Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 10:24, Carsten Strotmann <carsten@strotmann.de> wrote: > On 31 Aug 2021, at 10:11, defdefred wrote: > > > Single Board Computer, like RaspberryPi. > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Monday, August 30th, 2021 at 17:56, Sergei Gnezdov sergei.gnezdov@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > What is SBC? > > > > > > On 8/30/21 7:33 AM, defdefred wrote: > > > > > > > Why not switching to SBC with less energy used? > > because SBCs are not "vintage computers". > > The goal of "vintage computing" is not using low resource machines, but keeping, using and preserving "old" machines. > > ngIRCd enables "vintage computer" enthusiasts to use vintage hardware for as an IRC server, for example on vintage computer meetings. > > Some people (like me) have fun doing so. > > A project like ngIRCd is not aimed to have such an IRC-Server run 24h/365d in the Internet (but I guess some people will do, because they can). > > Greetings > > Carsten
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