Usenet is a bit more work to setup than bittorrent, but you will be able to find lots of movies and TV shows there without having to seed anything. Unfortunately, you have to pay for access to good indexers if you want to download more than a few files per day.

This is why you never buy any device that uses the cloud unless there is an option to self host.

MKVToolNix will work even if the file is not MKV. It will just remux it to MKV.

I put a cheap pair of wire cutters in the front pocket of the suitcase to cut the zip tie off with.

I just use a zip tie. It keeps the bag shut and it’s obvious if they open it. Of course they could potentially replace it with an identical zip tie. You can get security seals that are serial numbered if you want to protect against that.

Some random old printer is much more likely to be plug and play on Linux these days than it is on windows.

It would be nice if they would make one with 4 or more LAN ports with at least one of them 2.5G and no WiFi. I need multiple access points to get enough coverage. The built in WiFi is useless to me since it won’t integrate nicely with Unifi.

You can put a separate Wine prefix for each game on your NAS and use a launcher like Lutris to run the games. You can share the Wine prefix between multiple computers. Newer games that require a SSD probably won’t work well over the network though.

The private DNS function is also very useful if you manually set it to an ad blocking DNS server.

When are they going to learn that solar roads are never going to be practical?

I wouldn’t really trust Intel CPUs after the degradation issues they were having. It will take a while to prove that it’s been fixed.

Of course that all falls apart if the display doesn’t use a normal subpixel layout. OLED displays usually have an unsupported subpixel layout. Some of them even have a white subpixel that’s not controllable by the computer, which makes subpixel anti-aliasing impossible.

I would like RS-232 and RS-485 modules and a full size SD card reader would be nice too. It’s probably something I would end up building myself if I get a Framework laptop.

Edit: It looks like they have an SD card module now, nice.

That’s the way to do it. I just wish Framework had a better selection of modules available and had more module bays on their laptops.

Almost everything I have has a USB A or a DE-9 plug. I don’t have a single peripheral that plugs into a USB C port. I don’t want to deal with dongles and I’m certainly not going to replace my perfectly good hardware.

Don’t use btrfs if you need RAID 5 or 6.

The RAID56 feature provides striping and parity over several devices, same as the traditional RAID5/6. There are some implementation and design deficiencies that make it unreliable for some corner cases and the feature should not be used in production, only for evaluation or testing. The power failure safety for metadata with RAID56 is not 100%.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid56-status-and-recommended-practices

That’s why you disable their account before telling them they’re fired.

I’m surprised more people aren’t using uBlock Origin. It’s an absolute necessity for browsing the web anymore.

Why? Phones have been thin enough for a long time that you have to put them in a case just to get a good grip.