Oh, that doesn't sound great. One reason I was looking into it was because Docker seemingly doesn't allow optional mounts which has been causing some issues. My home assistant is using a network attached USB device through a raspberry pi somewhere else in the house. Sometimes it would disconnect and take down my entire home assistant instance.
I recommend going with an N100 based system if you want low power usage. I doubt old workstations that support multiple drives idle near 10W, the mini PC variants might, but they would require a DAS for the HDD's.
I have personally chosen an ASUS N100I-D D4 motherboard with a m.2 to 6x SATA card and it has been working fairly well.
I don't know what this whole tangent about Chinese cars is about. Those are electric too?
The US and EU is imposing tariffs on Chinese EV's to prevent competition with their domestic companies. It seems Adam is displeased because he blames the disadvantage of the car companies in the US and EU on them not innovating and investing in EV technology. He also seems to think that the US and EU should have invested more in domestic EV production.
I don't entirely disagree but I also feel like not protecting the domestic EV market at all would be a bad idea, since no companies would be left to compete in the future.
Are you an admin on lemmy.ca/? If so it might be a good idea to compare IP's to check if there are other accounts like this.