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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not a bad idea. I can give that a try for sure. I'm guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?

That's an interesting point I didn't think about.I don't know and I have no gadget to test that.

Actually once I've left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out (but I did take the Ethernet cable out). The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.

The power implications aren't likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.

The power implications aren’t likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).

Right.Meanwhile the on-board Ethernet port could become more reliable with newer software or some tweaks ?

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's my hope, as mentioned elsewhere I'm still awaiting uboot updates for broader OS support, so I guess I'm fine to hang on to it.

Perhaps I picked this up a little early, though it has been fun to tinker and benchmark with.