You shouldn’t have any issues with MakeMKV and normal blurays. 4K blurays can only be ripped with certain drives and they need custom firmware.

If you don’t want to write native code, then make a PWA. At least those don’t run a separate copy of chrome for each program.

Yes, but then you wouldn’t be getting the speed upgrade from the new PCIe 6 SSD.

PCIe 6 would need a new motherboard and that means buying new RAM. Good luck with that.

Gnome Disk Utility lets you manage the mount points from a GUI. There are probably other programs that can do it too.

You can use stunnel to make your VPN look like HTTPS.

Most ISPs have remote access to their modems. You should use your own if possible. If you can’t, then put it in bridge mode and connect your own router to it.

Those WiFi SD cards probably aren’t any more secure than the cameras.

If the camera supports downloading video over USB, you can get a USB OTG cable to connect it to a phone or tablet. Otherwise a card reader is the way to go.

If you bought the game, all you would have to do is click install and Steam would have done all of the setup for you. If you pirate, then you have to do that work yourself. It’s not particularly difficult, but it takes more than just double clicking on an exe file.

If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.

You could write a simple bash script that will launch it, wait for it to open, then use wmctrl to position the window wherever you want it.

There is ddccontrol and ddcutil for controlling desktop monitors. There is also the ddcci-driver which adds a device to /sys/class/backlight so you can use programs that would normally be used for controlling a laptop backlight.

My DVR and IP cameras are on a network with no internet access. My server has access to the camera network and I can connect to the server over a VPN for remote viewing. I definitely don’t trust the DVR or the IP cameras. They are constantly trying to connect to a bunch of different IP addresses, some of which are in China.

If a fediverse server has too many users for the mods to keep up with, they really should close the registration.

Look for an armored HDMI cable. They are wrapped in a steel jacket. Conduit is also an option.

They could also use treated waste water for cooling the data centers instead of dumping it in the ocean.

It’s delay line memory. It was common back in the days of vacuum tube computers.

I’m more interested in the big enterprise grade NVMe drives. Those can be made to work on normal hardware unlike the HBM RAM.

The law would allow you to sue whoever is running the chatbot. If you run your own LLM locally and take bad advice from it, then it’s your own fault.

SoundConverter is a good one. It’s simple and supports running multiple encodes in parallel to speed up batch conversions.

For music, I would suggest setting the format to Opus and the quality to high. That will produce a file around 128 kbps which should be transparent. Don’t get rid of your original lossless files though. You will need them whenever a newer, better codec comes out.