Just require any new operating systems to support 15 year old hardware. We should require manufacturers to provide 15 years of UEFI and firmware updates too.

I’ve tried it on a threadripper and it’s still way too slow. Hardware encoding is required for anything other than short clips. Use x265 for software encoding.

The VPN is needed for the torrent client. If you use it with the arr programs, you will probably be blocked by anything that’s behind cloudflare.

Luckily we have open source firmware and we can build our own printers.

Most ghost guns are not 3D printed so this is nothing but security theater and an invasion of privacy.

It’s pretty common to have breakers with built in GFCI these days.

We only just got hardware support for AV1 and they are already coming out with a new codec?

That’s what an archiving program is supposed to do.

Earth leakage would only trip the breaker if it was a GFCI, so the problem is something else.

Is it plugged into a GFCI protected outlet?

The power supply will have RFI filters in it and they always have some leakage. They may be installed before the power switch. There could just be too many devices with some earth leakage connected to the circuit, causing it to trip without any of them being faulty.

Bluetooth audio works pretty well these days. I just pair my headphones and set the profile to A2DP in PulseAudio Volume Control and it works. SBC and AptX codecs should just work, but LDAC and AAC may need additional packages installed. All headphones should support SBC, but it has the lowest audio quality.

None of the low profile cards are very good for gaming, especially if they are powered by the PCIe slot.

Any decent password manager should handle generating TOTP codes. A phone is not needed for that.

There are also rolling release distros that never need upgrades. You install the system once and normal updates are all it needs.

I’ve never had any issue with file transfers apart from being a bit slower than NFS. The main issues I have with it is lack of Unix file permissions and not allowing all characters in file names.

Unless you need compatibility with windows, you are better off using NFS or SSHFS.

I haven’t really noticed any obvious bot activity, at least in the communities that I’m subscribed to. I’m sure there is probably some, but it’s nothing like reddit.

There aren’t many VPN providers that have port forwarding and allow P2P. Proton is about the only choice if you want to seed.

Have you tried doing a factory reset and not connecting it to the internet?

It’s not entirely their fault. The AI companies share a good portion of the blame too.

Printing services are not good if you’re designing your own parts and need to make test prints to get things to fit. It will take a month or more instead of a day to go through several iterations and cost a lot of money too.

Are you using anything to defend against bots?