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  • Yes, I think that’s reasonable. The midrange CPU in the Beelink you linked is already significantly more capable than the Intel N150 etc., though it has a TDP of 15W compared to the N150’s 6W. I haven’t dug into which specialized features they support (hardware codec support etc.) but for a general-purpose computer I’d definitely prefer the one you linked to those N100/N150 minis, even if it uses a little more power. Others might have a different opinion but that would be my choice.


  • I’ve found that you don’t need to go that far above the $200 cost of an Intel N100/150 system to get a mini PC with a significantly more powerful AMD processor. It won’t be the latest generation but it will be capable of a lot more than those low-power Intels, and from my measurements many AMD processors of the last three generations or so are good at saving power when they’re idle, so it won’t use a ton more electricity. Sometimes you find used ones on eBay at a decent price because someone upgraded.





















  • The office of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, condemned the killings, while US President Donald Trump said it “didn’t bother me much” at a press conference.

    “They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, and they killed a number of gang members,” he said.

    Donald Trump endorses extrajudicial executions without trial, and he actually likes this aspect of Hamas. This is what he’s doing to people in boats in the Caribbean, and it’s what he wants to do to people he doesn’t like in the USA, if he hasn’t already started doing it. (Where are those hundreds of prisoners who disappeared from Alligator Auschwitz? Were they ever found?)