Double that and you could probably even run a GUI.

If you only have one slot, you can always put the old drive in a USB4 enclosure and turn it into a really fast flash drive.

I unplug the switching power supplies when I’m not using them because I don’t want to listen to the RFI that they produce.

Electrolytic capacitors wear out due to age whether they are used or not. Heat makes them wear out significantly faster. If the power supply is not under load, it shouldn’t be producing any noticeable amount of heat.

They could have just used normal 8 pin connectors in that case.

I got an old thermal receipt printer, plugged it into the parallel port and echoed some text to /dev/lp0 and it printed. I didn’t have to set anything up. I did have to write a simple python script to make it print images though.

It is being pushed beyond its ratings, so there’s no guarantees that it will work. There’s no harm in trying Cat5e at higher speeds if it’s already installed, but don’t install it with the intention of using it at more than 2.5G.

It’s impressive that they got the power consumption down to less than 2 watts. I think this is the first 10GBASE-T NIC I’ve seen that doesn’t have a heatsink on it.

Heat makes lithium ion batteries fail much quicker. A non rechargeable lithium AA would last a long time and they don’t leak like alkaline batteries.

Gas valves and igniters don’t even need much power. They could put a battery in there so it could be used when the power is out. My propane fireplace runs for years on 4 AA batteries and that’s powering the receiver for the remote too.

Why do they need an app instead of just using cell tower data? I guess you just take a flip phone then.

If they move to Discord, nobody will ever be able to find the answers. They must use a website that is indexable by search engines or it will be pointless.

You can get industrial grade CF cards that use SLC memory. They have much better write endurance than normal CF cards.

Wow, I didn’t realize the windows tax was that high. I thought the bulk OEM licensing was significantly cheaper than the retail price.

That would be great for a server, but 1.7GHz is a bit slow for a desktop.

Nice one Intel. My next computer certainly will not contain an Intel CPU.

I wish someone would start making desktop motherboards with socketed RISC-V and ARM CPUs.

For more power savings, you can undervolt your CPU if it supports it. On some CPUs, it can result in significant power savings.

Undervolting requires a lot of testing to make sure each core is stable under all conditions. There is no guarantee that a CPU will undervolt well though. Two identical CPUs can have significantly different results.

I’ve used OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato firmware on the various routers I’ve had. I don’t think I’ve ever kept the stock firmware on any router I’ve owned.

I use pfSense at home now, but I’ve been considering switching to OPNsense. I still run OpenWrt on a portable router that I use when I’m traveling though. I won’t ever buy a router that I can’t run open source firmware on.