It would be nice if they would switch to safer batteries like LiFePO4 for power banks. They rarely catch fire and you can put them out with a fire extinguisher.

I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.

That uses proof of work rather than just detecting and blocking the bots.

It’s that thing that won’t let you watch videos in the quality you paid for if they don’t like the device or browser you use.

Mesh should be an option of last resort. It reduces the speed and increases the latency quite a bit. The only thing worse is power line networking, which has the side effect of turning your whole house into an RF jammer.

The cell carriers don’t need more bandwith. 5G is already quite fast with the existing allocations. The only times I’ve used 5G and thought it’s too slow has been in rural areas where the issue is a lack of nearby cell towers, not a lack of bandwidth. The cell carriers already have loads of millimeter wave bandwidth available for use in densely packed, urban areas where the lower frequency bands are insufficient.

It’s WiFi that should be getting more bandwidth. Home internet connections keep getting faster. Multi gigabit speeds are now common in areas with fiber.

Dual booting on separate drives is safe, especially if you unplug the windows drive while installing Linux so you can’t accidentally mix them up. Just don’t mess with the windows drive from Linux. It’s probably encrypted if you’re running windows 11 anyways.

Some MediaTek WiFi cards are not supported. I had to replace one in a laptop.

The higher screen resolution is not a good thing if you want to play games without being plugged in. It will take a lot more power to run games in 1080p than it will in 720p.

So how do you determine if your headphones have the vulnerable chip in them?

OK, let me know when I can buy a TV the size of an IMAX screen to take advantage of that resolution.

Mod Organizer 2 works great with wine and proton. Installation is a bit complicated though. The recent versions of MO2 require wine 9 or newer.

The GPU won’t have any issues encoding several video streams at the same time. That’s not really necessary though. The cameras will do the encoding for you. Just set the bitrate and framerate that you want on the camera and pass that through. Most cameras support two streams, the secondary stream is usually limited to SD though. All of my Hikvision cameras support RTSP. It’s mostly just the consumer grade crap that only works with the manufacturers cloud service so they can spy on you or restrict features whenever they want.

Don’t make the mistake I did and buy any Hikivision stuff from Amazon. They are all grey market and the firmware can’t be updated. I tried to update one of mine and now the user interface is stuck in Chinese. You have to get them from an authorized distributor.

My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.

Maybe Steam could just bundle the needed 32 bit libs for Fedora until they can get a 64 bit only version ready.

Edit from MS-DOS still came with Windows XP and I think it was in 7 too. Did they remove it in later versions?

The only real solution is to always keep your source files. PDFs are not intended to be edited.

I just keep all of my music in an NFS share on my NAS and play it with Rhythmbox or VLC. I keep a compressed copy on the SD card in my phone to listen to when I’m not home.

I ran Damn Small Linux on it about 15 years ago. That worked pretty well and it would even run a web browser. It would probably boot Tiny Core Linux, but there wouldn’t be much RAM left to run any programs. The motherboard supports 128MB, but it’s not really worth the cost to upgrade it though.

I may see about resurrecting that computer. I’ve got an old Motorola police radio that I would like to reprogram to operate in the 2M ham band and I think that PC will run the programming software.

It’s certainly not an ideal solution, but it’s an option that will usually work.