GNU Parallel: It lets you run multiple things in parallel. It’s very useful for batch converting large numbers of files.

I’m sure that will just push more people to get their music from soulseek and torrents.

It’s better to stick with brands like Mikrotik and Ubiquiti for WiFi access points and hardware you can run OPNsense or OpenWRT on for a firewall/router.

CD-RWs are not magneto-optical. MiniDiscs are though.

You can use the private DNS function with an ad blocking DNS server like AdGuard.

I would only rip the ones that you can’t download. To get a decent quality transfer from tape, you will need to connect a time base corrector between the VCR and capture card. Unfortunately, they are rather hard to find now and expensive.

A portion of the 5GHz WiFI band overlaps with the 5.8GHz ham band too. There are also a few WiFi radios that will also work above the US WiFi band where they can operate without interference from other license free devices. Those are used in the HamWAN network.

It would be nice if they banned it everywhere. It seems like a large portion of the scams I see online involve telegram.

Also watch out for any link files, .com files and .bat files.

The ABS is more likely to be usable after drying.

It’s not hard to make Linux run on 2GB of RAM. The hard part is getting a web browser to run on 2GB without constantly swapping.

It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.

802.11ac was a huge improvement over 802.11n. The later versions have only given a small performance increase unless you don’t have neighbors and can run wide channels.

Luckily, the service doesn’t have the bandwidth for video or images. They could still use it for user tracking and text ads if it can get a signal indoors though.

The video playback should get choppy if the CPU is overloaded, the PC shouldn’t shut down from that. It sounds like your CPU may be overheating. I would suggest monitoring the CPU temperature while playing the video.

Wow, that’s some expensive data plans. Let’s hope you don’t need more than a few KB of data.

There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.

Piracy never got anywhere close to dying. TV and movie piracy dropped a bit when there were decent streaming services though.

Lots of people got used to watching what they want, when they want it. Now that the streaming services have all enshittified, loads of people are turning to piracy because it provides better service.

Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.

You don’t need a static IP address, but you do need a public IP address. You can use dynamic DNS to avoid having to keep track of your IP address. FreeDNS will work fine for a basic setup.

Wireguard is one of the easiest VPN servers to use. If you’re not using your ISP’s router, it may even have Wireguard built in.