Any 18650 with a rated capacity of more than 4Ah is a fake. They will usually be very low capacity. The low weight and the hollow sound when you tap on it is good indicator of that too.
There are a number of reputable sites for buying 18650 cells. Stay away from Amazon and Aliexpress, they are full of fakes.
Ideally they would provide a graph showing how many watt hours it will output from minimum to maximum load. If it supports multiple voltages, there should be a separate line in the graph for each voltage.
Just install a VPN server on your computer or router. That’s all you need unless you’re stuck on CGNAT.
The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.
You can get a free VPN from Proton.
Yeah, they probably want to kill it and switch people over to a cloud service with a monthly subscription.
The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.
There’s been pirates on FLTSATCOM for decades. That’s what you get when you launch a bunch of satellites that repeat anything with no authentication though.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.
The DE won’t really make much of a performance difference on a high end computer.
They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.
If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.
It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.
Are there any good log monitoring programs that will automatically blacklist the IP of any crawler that ignores robots.txt?
I’m sure that ban doesn’t apply to government operated facial recognition cameras though.
The trick is to use autodl-irssi or autobrr to download the torrent the second it gets added to the tracker. As long as you have a very fast internet connection, you will usually be over 1:1 before it finishes downloading.
That’s the word of this decade.
There’s also a PPA if you don’t want to use a flatpak. Just be sure to uninstall it before upgrading to Mint 23 to avoid any issues.
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.
Yes, a used PC can work great for a home server. Just don’t go too old or it will be power hungry. Obviously you will want one with an integrated GPU to save power too. If you want to run jellyfin, make sure it supports hardware video encoding, preferably AV1 or H.265.
The SSH and VPN traffic is encrypted. Unless your private keys have been compromised, nobody can see what is going over the tunnel. They can log things like the IP addresses that are connecting to it and how much data is being transferred though.