Do you have links for these claims?
Not saying I don’t believe it, I just want to read about it myself.
Btw. I think you used sea mile as reference when converting miles into kilomeres. 1 million milles would be more like 1.6 million kilometres.

Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.

It can go higher than the 8 watts, though.
The 8 watts are with rather low CPU load, but with 1 SATA SSD and 1 NVMe SSD.
At full CPU load I expect it to be closer to 15 watts. With what the device is runningn high load happens rarely and not for long.

As others mentioned used SFF PCs, here’s my recommendation based on my own experience.

I bought several used Dell Wyse 5070. The 5070 was announced in May 2018 and used as thin client.
They’re tiny, silent (no fan) and you can fit a NVMe SSD via adapter (PCIe A/E key -> M key) in the WiFi card slot next to a SATA SSD. I picked the ones with Intel Celeron J4105 (Quad Core) with 1.5GHz, up to 2.5GHz burst and put 32 GB RAM in one of them (that was before prices went nuts).
Beware, only if you pick the right dual ranked RAM modules (e.g. Patriot PSD416G26662S), you can have a max. of 2x16 GB. To start your journey, 4 or 8 GB might just be enough and don’t cost an arm and a leg.
Now I have a PVE (Proxmox Virtual Environment) running with several virtual servers and lxc, one 5070 hosts a PBS (Proxmox Backup Server) and both devices are far from their limit. In case of hardware failure I have spare 5070s.
Each 5070 cost around $65 and runs at around 8 watts at average. Dunno about current prices though.

It fits my needs and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Maybe it fits your needs as well?

If they give all land including Crimea back and pay sufficient reparations, Ukraine might agree.

I’m afraid you’re right.
My comment was meant to sound tongue-in-cheek.

Wen consumer mainboards with HBM?

So many parallels with the dot-com bubble and so much FOMO.
But the computer hardware shortage / price skyrocketing caused by the AI bros is a really bad extra.

Maybe an unusual take, but I use the SD in desktop mode for working.
The USB-C supports Display Port, so I have 2 external monitors connected and keyboard as well as mouse obviously.
With another USB-C powered portable monitor as alternative it’s an even kinda portable setup.

Aaaaaand it’s sold out again: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-steam-deck-is-sold-out-again-even-after-the-huge-price-rise

It sucks that the SD got more expensive, but your calculation about relevant component price hikes is spot-on.
Blaming Valve for that is a kind of victim blaming, because Valve would love to bring even more users in their eco-system through affordable hardware that just works.

Steam Deck and SteamOS are no walled garden.
That’s the difference.
Feel free to run Bazzite on the SD, or even Windows, lol.

If all my Steam games are gone, I continue playing games from my GOG library through Heroic Games Launcher.
Again, see: no walled garden.

Sounds like you’re letting ‘perfect’ be the enemy ‘good’.
An OS not being abused by Google or Apple to corral users is good enough for me.
I couldn’t care less whether it’s proprietary in this case.

Give me a fully open source phone, that’s capable of being a daily driver without funneling data to Google or Apple and we’re talking!
How nice that people can have different requirements for their phones 😉

Why not letting him enter, but arrest him then?

Boost. Apparently there’s a setting I wasn’t aware of.

Plants need direct light to grow… most need full sun.

That’s only true, if the solar panels are not properly adjusted to this use case.
The solution for that is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics#Spectrally_selective_modules

Who has the balls to suggest killing himself?

I’m using Boost and there’s indeed a huge difference between this post and the source.

The cornea should be one of the most sensitive areas (in terms of irritation) of your eye.
I don’t know, but if I had to guess, I’d say it plays a crucial role in feeling that burn.

Equipping houses with solar reduces upgrading work on the grid.
When it’s hot and the sun is shining, air conditioning works without putting any strain on the grid and with a properly sized battery this even works at night.
Better use the big solar parks for industrial use of electric energy and put the source of energy as close to the destination as possible.