Hydrogen would be fine as long as it’s not flying above an inhabited area. Helium supplies are limited.

Run an iperf test to see if the ethernet adapter is working correctly. The speed tests on my USB ethernet adapter are almost identical to an integrated one as long as it’s connected to a USB 3 port.

I would recommend installing Heroic Launcher too. It works good for GoG, Epic & Amazon games.

Firefox has had one hidden away in about:config since they started adding AI. Are they going to put it in the settings page now?

So what happens when the certificate expires? Do you get locked out if you don’t have physical access?

I don’t want my TV to function as anything more than a large computer monitor. I may end up having to get a projector if they keep pushing all this smart TV and AI garbage. At least the business type projectors are still free of it for now.

Those displays are made to be very bright and usually have a lot of backlight bleed.

The filament absorbs moisture and that causes print quality issues. It can cause things like bubbles, stringing, poor layer adhesion and a rough finish. PLA will get brittle when it absorbs too much moisture.

Unless you live somewhere with a really low humidity, get something to store your filament rolls in. I like the Sterilite 54 Quart Gasket Boxes. They will hold a dozen rolls of filament. Put humidity meter and a big cloth bag of silica gel in there to keep it dry. Bake the silica gel when the humidity starts rising to regenerate it.

The 4 liter cereal storage containers work well for storing single rolls. You can print a spool holder that will fit in them so you don’t have to take the filament out of the box to print with it.

Get or make a filament dryer too. The filament usually comes wet even though it’s packed in a vacuum sealed bag.

If you don’t have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don’t support port forwarding.

There is a PipeWire module for ASHA. It looks like it has issues with a lot of devices though.

My windows XP install kept breaking and I got tired of fixing it, so I tried Linux and never went back.

Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.

Linux still runs very well for general use with 8GB of RAM. You can also reduce RAM usage by using zswap to compress less frequently accessed data.

Adding a second NVMe drive may not be hard, but adding a couple dozen more for a NAS means forking over a lot of money for a high end CPU with an extra 96 PCIe lanes. That high end CPU also means high power consumption. For SATA or SAS, you only need a single slot with 8-16 lanes for the controller card.

Yes, that’s fine as long as whatever you’re hosting is designed to be safely used on the internet. Just keep it up to date and only expose the stuff you need to. I would suggest setting up fail2ban to block IPs that repeatedly fail to log in though. Depending on what you’re hosting, you may need bot protection, but if all they can see is a login page, they shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Just make sure you’re not using an EUI64 address. That significantly narrows down the number of addresses per subnet to scan. The bots found one of my computers that was using one. It took them 3 years to find it though.

I use inleed.xyz. It’s free, has IMAP/SMTP access and you can have as many accounts as you want. It’s limited to 1GB of storage shared between all accounts though.

It would be better to use Anubis to try to block the bots or use Iocaine and let the bots scrape as much garbage as they want.

The data is laser etched into fused silica. It will not degrade like CDs or DVDs. It will hold its data until something damages the disk.