It’s better to disable ssh password login and use keys instead.

Let me know when someone gets an LLM to run on a Bendix G15. This Pentium stuff is way too new.

The consumer grade 2.5" drives may be half empty, but the enterprise grade ones are mostly heatsink so they don’t thermal throttle within a minute of heavy use. M.2 drives are way too small. It was fine for SATA speeds, but not for the PCIe 5 NVMe drives.

There’s only so much power you can put through such a small connector. I could certainly see a high end gaming laptop requiring more than 240W since GPUs keep getting more power hungry. They could increase the voltage a bit, but I doubt they will go much higher.

SATA SSDs are still more than fast enough to saturate a 2.5G ethernet connection. Some HDDs can even saturate 2.5G on large sequential reads and writes. The higher speed from M.2 NVMe drives isn’t very useful when they overheat and thermal throttle quickly. You need U.2 or EDSFF drives for sustained high speed transfers.

Private trackers tend to have more hard to find content available, especially if the tracker specializes in that kind of content. They often have the ability to make requests if they don’t have what you’re looking for too. On the good ones, the requests tend to be filled quickly. The content is well moderated, so you are much less likely to find malware or bad or low quality releases. The downloads are usually a lot faster too. Many people use seedboxes, so 1gbps+ download speeds are not uncommon.

There’s not much room for any open programs on that panel. Why didn’t you use a dock for the launchers instead?

I would hope that a device capable of pulling 200w from USB would be intelligent enough to detect the excessive voltage drop and error out or reduce the current.

My server with 8 hard drives uses about 60 watts and goes up to around 80 under heavy load. The firewall, switch, access points and modem use another 50-60 watts.

I really need upgrade my server and firewall to something about 10 years newer, it would reduce my power consumption quite a bit and I would have a lot more runtime on UPS.

That would be cool for playing console games on, but I sure wouldn’t want to have to move it.

Check your local library. Many of them have DVDs you can borrow. The older ones may be fullscreen. Then you can rip them with Handbrake.

It doesn’t hurt to keep the torrent running if you can’t find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I’ve had stuff download after waiting for months.

That will be more likely as more people start using SteamOS.
If SteamOS can get enough users, then not supporting it will start to hurt the game developers profits.

I think the most likely explanation is that someone saw a drone or two at night and posted a photo on social media. It can be very hard to determine the actual size of something in a photo, so it probably looked a lot bigger than it was. That got everyone worked up and now every light in the night sky is a “drone”.

You will get nasty letters if you torrent on Starlink without a VPN and they may disconnect you. It’s CGNAT, so performance will be crap without a VPN since you can’t use port forwarding. The upload is rather slow, so you may want to consider a seedbox, especially if you use private trackers.

I get around 10 hours of web browsing or video playback on my T480 with integrated graphics and the extended battery. It would be a couple hours longer if it had fresh batteries.

Who can even tell the difference between 4K and 8K when you’re sitting a normal distance from the screen?

The reader may need a kernel module loaded. I have an old laptop with a built in Realtek PCIe card reader that requires the rtsx_pci_sdmmc module to be manually loaded.

If it is a PCIe card reader, it should have shown up in lspci even without the module loaded though.

Have you checked the BIOS settings to make sure it hasn’t been disabled there?

If the card reader is built in, it may show up as /dev/mmcblk0.

RS-232 isn’t going away anytime soon. It’s so simple that any microcontroller can use it.