I was able to convince my mum to start with DSL right away. Must have been 1999/2000. Before that I was able to at least use ISDN at my uncle‘s place. When I was spending time at my best friend‘s place, I encountered AOL dial up the first time. It was awful.
Idle: 30 Watts
Starting all docker containers after reboot: 140 Watts
It needs around 28 kWh per month.
Good to see they exist. All we ever get to see in our German media are those lunatic Putin fanboys and fangirls.
My main server is backed up via Kopia to a 5 TB Hetzner Storage Box and to a second server at my parents in law‘s place. I‘ve got additional MDisc backups of old photos, Paperless PDFs and work related files that don‘t change at my mother‘s place as well.
My Linux ISO collection is too big to actually back up. So, I regularly create file lists and in the event of data loss, I will have to spend quite some time to rebuild it. At least, my fiber connection will help me with that.