You want a business laptop. Most of them are designed to be repairable and have parts readily available. They are also a lot more durable than the junk you find in the stores. The only downside is they are not good for gaming, but you can always pick one with Thunderbolt/USB 4 and use an eGPU. Just make sure the port has all 4 PCIe lanes connected.

Block all of Meta’s domains and ASNs on your network and cut off contact with anyone that uses it.

copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.

The Linux equivalent of that is cat file.txt > /dev/lp0. It still works if you have a parallel port printer that accepts plain text.

RAM that’s hogged by windows is wasted RAM. It should be used by programs and for caching.

The Pi 4 & 5 are no good for tinkering anymore, but the Pi Pico microcontrollers still are. I just hope they don’t screw that up too.

The oldest seeded torrent just turned 23 years old a week ago.

It would even make a decent living room gaming PC. The 3050Ti won’t run the modern AAA junk, but it will handle most indie games and a lot of older games.

Reddit is slowly dying. It will eventually be 100% bots.

They made a large chunk of the internet inaccessible without javascript.

Mumble is much better for gaming. It’s lightweight and doesn’t use the GPU at all. Since it’s self hosted, there is no ID verification.

The fine should be much bigger, the generators should be confiscated and any executives that approved it should be in jail.

There are ways to obfuscate VPN traffic that’s resistant to DPI. It makes it look like normal HTTPS traffic. That will make completely blocking VPNs difficult. I’m sure even more effective obfuscation methods will be developed if VPN blocking becomes widespread.

That’s perfectly fine. The only issue is that it may limit performance on some laptops.

That capacitor has snap-in leads. It’s normal for them to be that short.

They are not hard to solder. Just use a big chisel tip and it will only take a few seconds per lead.

If your Eneloops are failing that much, they are either being over discharged or something is wrong with your charger.

All of my Eneloops have been much more reliable than lithium ion batteries.

I’m sure someone could figure out how to boot Linux on a vacuum tube computer. The problem is there just aren’t that many around that are still operational.

The Steam Deck uses a M.2 2230 SSD. They are slightly smaller than an SD card. I wish phones would start using them. The performance is way better than and SD card or EMMC.

Having an alert go off if it gets too warm would be useful. That just needs a smart temperature sensor connected to your HA server though.

It can work as long as the phone has an option to limit the battery charge to 80% or less. Keeping the battery fully charged for an extended amount of time will damage it and may even cause it to puff up.

No, they are supposed to start delivering then later this year.