I love this copy pasta

Cries in SFFPCs

Hard to tame a 5800X3D in a 8L case

That’s also assuming they used proper salts and a strong hashing algorithm.

Also MITM and or phishing attacks are not super common but can also depreciate your common password very quickly.

Always layered defense. If it’s not 1 thing, it could be another.

Unique passwords are just one facet on a multi-layered security defense.

We have a bee hotel and it’s so damn cute seeing these little solitary bees filling up the holes.

We probably have 20-30 nests.

To save money, they can go the derelict laptop route.

If they get a low tdp board, maybe like an old laptop without a battery, the power difference isn’t going to be too much. Pi can pull 9W at full tilt. And an old Ultrabook with it’s monitor tuned off or unplugged can probably pull 35-45W at full tilt.

So 45W - 9W = 36W

36w x 24hr x 356 = 315,360Wh

315.36kWh x 0.25 cents = 78.84 a year

But that’s assuming everything is running at full speed. For something running 24/7, we can probably estimate idle state is more common. Laptops can idle about 3-4W a pi4 is also idle around 3-4W.

So 90% at 4W and 10% at 45W for the laptop

And 90% at 4W and 10% at 9W for the pi

Gives us 8.1W average for the laptop

And 4.5W for the pi

Giving us a total difference of 31.536kWh. or 7.88 additional a year.

This is also assuming the laptop has the same computational power as the pi, which isn’t true, so the laptop will end up finishing tasks faster than the pi and use more power for a shorter amount of time.