The lemmy frontend will come up fast, but you would see an error and a popup telling you that lemmy is still starting. If you can see content, then the DB migration is finished already. The 1.3.0 branch of ansible doesn’t have any changes which would cause performance impact. Currently it just adjusts the readme and adds pictrs 0.4.7.
I don’t think there ever can be a better icon. Some are experimenting with a down-arrow pointing to a flat surface, but the floppy fisk is much better.
A mining rig should work, but you might want to restrict the GPU to one model, as loading 4G on PCIx1 when switching models would be too slow. Only one way to try it out really. At worst it could make an alchemist.
Separately do you know if AMD Radeon RX580s are capable of contributing to AI Horde?