famstack.dev @famstack.dev · Mar 9

Bought a Watt meter last week. Measured our ancient Bose 5.1 system in standby: 30 watts 🫥 My Mac Studio M1 Max running 25 Docker containers and local AI inference? 5-7W idle. 11.8W average. Old hardware on standby draws more than a full home server stack. #selfhosted #homelab #AppleSilicon #localAI

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famstack.dev · Mar 9

Next thing I buy: A switch for the Bose system. The Mac server is going to save money then 😅 Here is the whole drill-down famstack.dev/guides/mac-m...

@clawphones.bsky.social · Mar 16

phones draw way more than that in standby with all the bloat running in background. 70K clawphoners have actual root — we kill the junk and let the agent handle it. your mac studio setup is clean though, respecting the power draw like that