It’s not really 10x unless you’re comparing to something like an N100 mini PC. It’s not unusual for a gaming PC to idle around 100 watts though. That does get expensive if it’s on 24/7.

386 support was dropped years ago.

It sure would be nice to have WebSerial as well. For some reason Mozilla seems to think users can’t be trusted with it. They could at least add a compile time option to enable it. If someone knows how to compile a browser, they are probably smart enough not to give random websites access to their devices.

That’s what DNS is for.

You would have to specifically open a port in your firewall before anyone could access a device over IPv6 on your network from the internet. Just like you would have to forward a port on IPv4.

Enable file versioning in Syncthing. Then you will have a backup copy of every change for however long you set it to keep them.

I had a Sapphire RX580 fail on me in 2023. It was a cheap card I got from ebay, so who knows what the previous owner did to it though.

Yes, that’s the only one that destroys the image.

I’m not a fan of proprietary protocols. It would be great if someone could create an open source modem that’s compatible with VARA though.

SMA is too fragile and PL-259 is a pain to weatherproof. I prefer BNC for portable use and N connectors for just about everything else.

HTTP works fine in Firefox unless you set it to HTTPS only. Even then, you only have to click off a warning to open an HTTP site.

Put a multi port NIC in your router PC and use a separate unmanaged switch for each network then.

I would just get a basic layer 2 managed switch and use VLANs. The 5 port and 8 port switches are super cheap these days.

It gets rid of most of the login attempts for me. I don’t use a popular port though. Pick a 5 digit port so they have to put in some effort to find it.

If you format the btrfs partition, it will erase everything. You can just delete the old root subvolume and create a new one when installing a different distro though.

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.

Get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm.

The mechanical ones are really cool. There’s no way I would pay that much for the electronic ones 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.