I’m surprised it’s that cheap. I doubt they will sell many of them. They have to cover the cost of all the tooling required to build the VHS players. They are fairly complex and have a lot of moving parts. It’s been about a decade since anyone made a VHS player. Unless they got lucky and found the tooling sitting in a warehouse somewhere, they would have to build it all.

Get a CCTV camera for it. Make sure it supports ONVIF. An IP camera can be run 100 meters on CAT5.

Trail cams are not intended for remote viewing. They are battery powered and a remote connection would drain the batteries quickly.

You would think that RAM manufacturers would ramp up production. Hopefully the fact that they aren’t means the bubble is going to burst within a couple of years.

Adb is a command line program. To copy your music folder from home on your PC to internal storage on your phone, you would just open a terminal abd type adb push ~/Music /sdcard. Pressing tab will autocomplete folder and file names. For some reason /sdcard on android is actually the internal storage. If you have an SD card, it will be in /storage/card_name, where card_name is the UUID of the partition on the card.

You do have to enable USB debugging on your phone before you can use adb to transfer files though.

Yeah, MTP is worthless. I always use adb push if I need to transfer a lot of stuff.

The botnets usually try to login to SSH and pages like phpmyadmin & wp-admin looking for something they can infect rather than scraping every single page on a website frequently. Unless you do something to become the target of a DDoS attack or don’t secure your server, they usually aren’t much more than a source of log spam.

It crashed a lot when I played it on windows too. I tried playing it a couple of times, but always gave up partway through because it kept crashing. There are some mods that are supposed to help with stability, I should try it again and see if they fix it.

Github has really turned to shit. Almost every time I try to search for something I get the too many requests error even if it’s the first time I’ve visited the site in a week.

It would be nice if people could self host something like Forgejo, but the damn AI crawlers will just hammer your server until it crashes. The crawlers are really hard to block without relying on another big tech company like Cloudflare.

There’s no OpenWRT support for it yet. I won’t buy any router without good OpenWRT support.

Hosting the site from home may be an option if symmetric fiber is available and the site doesn’t get a huge amount of traffic.

I would immediately return that as defective. I’d rather use that old 1980’s portable TV that’s been collecting dust in my closet since they shut down the analog TV broadcasts.

So start making more dumb TVs and speakers. That way they don’t need much memory.

No SD card slot, no headphone jack, no radio and a rounded screen. I would consider that pretty terrible hardware.

There are seedboxes that start around USD $5 a month.

The AM broadcast stations aren’t going anywhere, at least in the US. Above the broadcast band is mostly aircraft, marine and the 160 meter ham band. None of that is likely to change.

Below the AM broadcast band are non directional beacons. Those are slowly being decommissioned. Eventually they will all be gone and that spectrum may get repurposed. I don’t know what the spectrum may get used for, but it would be nice if the 630 meter ham band was expanded.

LF and MF can be used at low power. The 2200 meter ham band has a power limit of 1 watt EIRP and the 630 meter band has a limit of 1 or 5 watts EIRP depending on the country. Actually radiating that much power is difficult because it’s not practical to build an efficient antenna. Luckily there is no limit on how much power the amplifier can put out, so we can put hundreds of watts into a very inefficient antenna. Narrow band digital modes work great on those bands.

In the US, we have LowFER, which allows hobbyists to use 160-190 kHz for experimental use without a license. The power limit is 1 watt input and the transmitting antenna is limited to 15 meters. People still manage to make long distance contacts with those significant limitations.

For LF and MF, you typically want narrow signals, not spread spectrum. It’s hard to make wide band antennas for such low frequencies and propagation can change a lot in just a few tens of kHz.

How fine are you sanding it? Coarse sandpaper makes the PETG turn white and fuzzy. That goes away after wet sanding with 400 to 600 grit. I usually go up to 2000 grit to get a smooth surface. The color is still quite a bit lighter after sanding though.

Keep in mind that without working repeaters, the baofeng will only have a range of a few miles on level ground with nothing in the way. If the power goes out, most of the repeaters will go down too. Some have battery backups that may last a few hours to a few days. Depending on where you are, a few may be solar powered, but heavy use will drain the batteries. Some repeaters are also reliant on the internet for linking to increase the coverage area.

What you really want in that case is a portable HF radio and a wire antenna you can string up over a tree branch or a support with a fishing pole. In the daytime, you can use the upper HF bands for long distance communication. That has a range of thousands of miles, but nearby stations won’t be able to hear you if they are beyond line of sight. Since the portable radio doesn’t have much power, you may need to use digital modes to get through. For more local contacts you can use NVIS propagation on the lower HF bands. That has a range of several hundred miles and can even be used to talk to someone on the other side of a mountain. Even 5 watts and an antenna strung 3 feet off the ground can work for voice contacts out to over a hundred miles.

They haven’t been selling anything that cheap since the AI driven hard drive shortage. A refurbished 12TB drive is around $200 now.

Windows XP is really lightweight. As long as your CPU supports VT-x or AMD-V, the VM will run fine.