I’m still running a 1950x in my desktop. It works fine for most stuff, but the gaming performance is a bit low now with all of the spectre mitigations. I was planning on upgrading, but that will have to wait a few more years now.

I ran my previous laptop from 2012 until it died last year. I used it as my electronics workbench PC for several years because the battery wouldn’t hold a charge, but it still worked fine for running KiCAD and programming microcontrollers. I replaced it with a used Thinkcentre that I got dirt cheap on ebay just before the RAM prices went crazy.

What point is there in buying an 8K TV when there is hardly any 8K content to watch on it? Most people don’t have room for a big enough screen to take advantage of the resolution anyways.

Wine has support serial and parallel ports. They work fine. In recent versions of wine you don’t even have to set anything up. Just run ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* after running something in wine to see what the com port number is for your device. The ttyACM and ttyUSB ports are USB serial ports. The ttyS ports are hardware serial ports and they will probably show up even if your computer doesn’t have any.

MeshCore runs at 2.73 kbps and it can send a short text message in a fraction of a second. The short turbo preset on Meshtastic is 21.88 kbps, but that’s still too slow for images. The higher speed reduces the range by quite a bit too.

For images, you would be better off using WiFi HaLow, which runs several mbps on 900 MHz.

If you have a ham license, there is HamWAN and ARDEN as well. They are fast enough to stream live video. They can work over long distances, but the high gain antennas have to be aimed carefully.

It’s not going to make a very good NAS. It looks like it only has USB 2 and 100M ethernet. That’s going to be slower than the NAS I built with the Pentium 4 desktop I got for free in 2007.

I can’t believe anyone would want one. TVs are fairly cheap now, it’s just not worth getting a free spyware filled one. It probably uses the lowest quality LCD panel they can find.

If you watch your local classifieds, you can find used TVs for practically nothing.

The list of vulnerability mitigations for those old CPUs is going to be a mile long. They will probably have their performance cut in half or worse. Even a much newer CPU like Zen 1 takes a big performance hit.

You can disable mitigations, but then a malicious website could potentially steal sensitive information on that computer.

For home use, all I can think of is wireless video. 15 GB/s is faster than the fastest DisplayPort or HDMI versions. It could handle any resolution and refresh rate currently in use without any compression. That would be useful for VR headsets since they need low latency.

Yeah, it was played with XBMC, which used hardware decoding. Back then nothing in the repo supported the GPU in the Raspberry Pi. If you wanted hardware acceleration, you had to track down a build that supported it or compile it yourself. I wonder if that’s still the case. I haven’t used a Pi with a screen attached in a long time.

For the video playback test, it must not have been using hardware decoding. I used to use a Pi 1 as a media player. It would play 1080P 35 mbps bluray rips without dropping any frames.

The DNS authoratative servers are what hold all of the records for your domain. With Cloudflare, you are stuck with theirs. As for why you want to use a different one, maybe you need more than the 200 records Cloudflare limits you to. Maybe you don’t like the way their API works for automating updates. Maybe you don’t want to set up all of your records all over again if you transfer your domain to another registrar. Maybe you just don’t like Cloudflare.

A .com domain should be under USD $12 a year with WHOIS privacy included. If someone is charging more than that, they are ripping you off. Most web or VPS hosts will charge a significant markup if they sell domains. Make sure you check the renewal price too. Some registrars will give you the first year cheap, then charge significantly more to renew it.

Cloudflare is the cheapest, but they force you to use their DNS servers. Porkbun is a dollar more, but you can use your own DNS if you want to.

It stands for Neural Processing Unit. It’s a processor for running AI. They multiply lots of small numbers really quickly.

I doubt it. Fallout 4 needs really good single threaded CPU performance because the engine sucks.

What is the average person even going to use an NPU for? There’s not a whole lot of useful things that can even be run on one.

I’m surprised it’s that cheap. I doubt they will sell many of them. They have to cover the cost of all the tooling required to build the VHS players. They are fairly complex and have a lot of moving parts. It’s been about a decade since anyone made a VHS player. Unless they got lucky and found the tooling sitting in a warehouse somewhere, they would have to build it all.

Get a CCTV camera for it. Make sure it supports ONVIF. An IP camera can be run 100 meters on CAT5.

Trail cams are not intended for remote viewing. They are battery powered and a remote connection would drain the batteries quickly.

Depending on the workload, compression may be an option. You can use zram or zswap to basically get more RAM at the expense of increased CPU usage.

As long as you are using your own domain, you can move to a different host and keep your email addresses.

Because of all of the blobs it contains. That has caused a lot of people to not trust it.