MeshCore runs at 2.73 kbps and it can send a short text message in a fraction of a second. The short turbo preset on Meshtastic is 21.88 kbps, but that’s still too slow for images. The higher speed reduces the range by quite a bit too.

For images, you would be better off using WiFi HaLow, which runs several mbps on 900 MHz.

If you have a ham license, there is HamWAN and ARDEN as well. They are fast enough to stream live video. They can work over long distances, but the high gain antennas have to be aimed carefully.

It’s not going to make a very good NAS. It looks like it only has USB 2 and 100M ethernet. That’s going to be slower than the NAS I built with the Pentium 4 desktop I got for free in 2007.

I can’t believe anyone would want one. TVs are fairly cheap now, it’s just not worth getting a free spyware filled one. It probably uses the lowest quality LCD panel they can find.

If you watch your local classifieds, you can find used TVs for practically nothing.

The list of vulnerability mitigations for those old CPUs is going to be a mile long. They will probably have their performance cut in half or worse. Even a much newer CPU like Zen 1 takes a big performance hit.

You can disable mitigations, but then a malicious website could potentially steal sensitive information on that computer.

For home use, all I can think of is wireless video. 15 GB/s is faster than the fastest DisplayPort or HDMI versions. It could handle any resolution and refresh rate currently in use without any compression. That would be useful for VR headsets since they need low latency.

Yeah, it was played with XBMC, which used hardware decoding. Back then nothing in the repo supported the GPU in the Raspberry Pi. If you wanted hardware acceleration, you had to track down a build that supported it or compile it yourself. I wonder if that’s still the case. I haven’t used a Pi with a screen attached in a long time.

For the video playback test, it must not have been using hardware decoding. I used to use a Pi 1 as a media player. It would play 1080P 35 mbps bluray rips without dropping any frames.

The DNS authoratative servers are what hold all of the records for your domain. With Cloudflare, you are stuck with theirs. As for why you want to use a different one, maybe you need more than the 200 records Cloudflare limits you to. Maybe you don’t like the way their API works for automating updates. Maybe you don’t want to set up all of your records all over again if you transfer your domain to another registrar. Maybe you just don’t like Cloudflare.

A .com domain should be under USD $12 a year with WHOIS privacy included. If someone is charging more than that, they are ripping you off. Most web or VPS hosts will charge a significant markup if they sell domains. Make sure you check the renewal price too. Some registrars will give you the first year cheap, then charge significantly more to renew it.

Cloudflare is the cheapest, but they force you to use their DNS servers. Porkbun is a dollar more, but you can use your own DNS if you want to.

I doubt it. Fallout 4 needs really good single threaded CPU performance because the engine sucks.

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.