[justinclift]

> ... cannot bring the connectivity and reliability that AWS provides.

Connectivity, you're likely right about. But for reliability... that's probably not accurate.

Most laptops (with stable software) don't seem to show any issues when running for months at a time. And they have built-in battery backup too. :)

Depending on the battery life for those old macbook pro's, that battery backup might last many hours. As servers, they don't need to run with their screens on. :)

[frankreyes]

ECC Ram is important, and most laptops don't have it. Just because you don't see bit errors doesn't mean it doesn't happens. Specially in a 16gb of RAM laptop, that thing is pretty much sensible.

[justinclift]

That's a good point, for oriented production stuff especially.

Maybe not as important for homelab style things though.

[frankreyes]

Even homelab, I keep my life's photos in a Nas and a single bit flip can make any picture unreadable.

The probability of a bit errors is not low, and if you keep data for a decade, it gets bad

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/497044/what-...

[justinclift]

> Even homelab > I keep my life's photos ...

To me, those should be two different categories.

* Homelab -> experimentation

* "My life's photos" -> production

But I guess that's just arguing over semantics at this point. :)

[grocketeer]

This is good to know. Thank you for the reference

[deltasquare4]

Well, I have found that it changes with numbers and age of the device. Generally speaking, you are right though.

[thumbuddy]

Most laptops end up in the trash because of the case, keyboards, etc. If you keep it headless why not.