You basically need a supercomputer for windows 11 to not run like complete shit. Linux will run well on 15 year old hardware, although I wouldn’t suggest anything that old if you care about power consumption.

There’s a browser addon that lets you disable auto translation.

The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don’t use more than about 75% of it’s rated output.

I haven’t had any issues with my RX 6700 XT. It works great for games and CAD. I’ve never gotten the video encoding working though. I think it needs the proprietary drivers.

It’s an important thing to have in an emergency. The remaining cell towers will probably be overloaded, but you will likely still be able to hear an FM broadcast station to find out if you need to evacuate and where to go.

Switch to IPv6 only and the port scans will go away. The address space is so big that port scanning is difficult, so the usual bots don’t bother.

If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it’s not low end.

Yeah, but it can’t run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.

That’s impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

I would much rather have a safer battery, even if it’s a bit bigger and heavier.

It would be nice if they would switch to safer batteries like LiFePO4 for power banks. They rarely catch fire and you can put them out with a fire extinguisher.

Down at the bottom of the network tab, it will tell you the total size.

The first column is the total size of the page, the second is how much was actually downloaded. That will be smaller if the web server uses compression or if any of the files are already cached.

I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.

It slows down when you have tens of thousands of emails in one folder. Archiving old emails by month helps keep it running smoothly. For some reason, it won’t let you do that with gmail accounts unless you archive to a local folder though.

If you want to create threads in FreeCAD, install the fasteners workbench. It makes it much easier and it has a setting for creating 3D printable threads.

That uses proof of work rather than just detecting and blocking the bots.

I’ve never had too much trouble removing TPU from a textured PEI plate. If the part doesn’t want to come off, lift up a corner of the part with a knife and put a drop of IPA under it.

It’s that thing that won’t let you watch videos in the quality you paid for if they don’t like the device or browser you use.

Mesh should be an option of last resort. It reduces the speed and increases the latency quite a bit. The only thing worse is power line networking, which has the side effect of turning your whole house into an RF jammer.

The cell carriers don’t need more bandwith. 5G is already quite fast with the existing allocations. The only times I’ve used 5G and thought it’s too slow has been in rural areas where the issue is a lack of nearby cell towers, not a lack of bandwidth. The cell carriers already have loads of millimeter wave bandwidth available for use in densely packed, urban areas where the lower frequency bands are insufficient.

It’s WiFi that should be getting more bandwidth. Home internet connections keep getting faster. Multi gigabit speeds are now common in areas with fiber.