The SFF or MT form factors are a lot better, I’d say MT is the best as it has full height PCIe slots. Keep in mind the dell/hp/lenovo models all use proprietary motherboard form factors and power supplies, but not that big of a deal I think since there are so many parts available if something does break.

I highly recommend 7th gen intel or newer, as you get the much better quicksync support and quality.

If you get a desktop class CPU (i5-7500 for example), the whole computer will typically draw around 15W at idle with an SSD, which is pretty decent.

If you need less idle power draw then you’ll want a mobile/notebook class CPU (like an i3-7100u) as the idle usage should be less than 5W. But those typically only come in the micro/mini form factors.

Also good to remember that every 3.5" HDD draws around 7W when idle and spun-up (typically difficult to spin down on servers since there’s always some process accessing files).

Yeah any extra fabs able to produce ‘last gen’ DDR4 would have a big impact.

Or the ‘modern workflow’ version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!

Maybe run the public VPN at home with NAT enabled, and use it as the default gateway in the private VPN. Never done it but I think I’ve seen some guides on that concept.

I guess maybe 8GB is fine if all you do is have a browser open with some tabs… W11 is not RAM friendly.

If you build a PC with DDR4 RAM it does get cheaper, and I think under $1k is very doable.

TBH USB-C to 3.5mm adapters are better anyways IMO, they’re very small and just stay attached to my headphones, have a better DAC and amplifier inside than most onboard 3.5mm jacks ever did, and it never gets stuffed full of pocket lint which was always an issue on phones that had an onboard jack.

That’s basically the headline for every major windows update these days.

TBH it should be a configurable option on every update tool. On my windows install I have unigetui set to only show updates older than 14 days so winget, pip, etc don’t even show brand new updates.

Wow I thought maybe they had finally optimized the code better so things weren’t so laggy, but no this just makes your CPU boost faster to try and run their crappy slow code lol.

It’s a ton of hassle if you’re logging into websites on that browser and I don’t think it provides much benefit unless it’s a shared computer and user account.

Firefox with uBlock Origin and Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled in strict mode blocks basically every type of tracker. You can add Cookie Auto Delete on top of that if you really want to make sure only sites you whitelist can save anything persistent like cookies or history.

Yeah and to be fair my main browser is Zen but I still have chrome and edge because I work on websites and need to make sure things work OK, they’re just not used for much else.

Basically everyone who’s not a techy person (unless their PC was set up by someone who is I suppose).

It’s so weird to me that people go nuts over Brave or Opera GX or whatever when Firefox and forks like Zen or LibreWolf are around and do their job so well.

Residential VPNs are cheap, plus home IPs change constantly on most providers.

Their best option is probably requiring a phone number verification to make an account.

What are they gonna do, close your accounts and make you sign up for 10 more? lol

Lots of GPUs together.

This is for OTP not Passkeys it seems?

How do you go about loading plugins on the Android version for sync with your setup?

Is that needed if ublock already stops all the tracking scripts from loading?

It does, just need to enable the filter list for it. It’ll block most annoying things on top of the usual ads.