There’s been pirates on FLTSATCOM for decades. That’s what you get when you launch a bunch of satellites that repeat anything with no authentication 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.

They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.

If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.

It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.

Linux native games are great as long as the engine is open source. If it’s closed source, it will eventually stop running on up-to-date distros some time after the developer stops updating it. For closed source games, it would be better to develop for excellent wine/proton compatibility so the game will continue to be playable long after it stops getting updates.

Are there any good log monitoring programs that will automatically blacklist the IP of any crawler that ignores robots.txt?

The K1 has root access and you can use whatever slicer you want. They are probably not the best machines if you want to install plain clipper though.

I’m sure that ban doesn’t apply to government operated facial recognition cameras though.

The trick is to use autodl-irssi or autobrr to download the torrent the second it gets added to the tracker. As long as you have a very fast internet connection, you will usually be over 1:1 before it finishes downloading.

That’s the word of this decade.

There’s also a PPA if you don’t want to use a flatpak. Just be sure to uninstall it before upgrading to Mint 23 to avoid any issues.

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.

Yes, a used PC can work great for a home server. Just don’t go too old or it will be power hungry. Obviously you will want one with an integrated GPU to save power too. If you want to run jellyfin, make sure it supports hardware video encoding, preferably AV1 or H.265.

Any Japanese made surround sound receiver and speakers than you can pick up from a thrift store or craigslist will sound way better than the modern junk. It will have a big, heavy power transformer and linear amplifiers. There will be no internet connected spyware either. If you find one from the 90’s, it will likely have a phono preamp for your record player too.

Did they ever fix the GPIO issue?

There’s also a qBittorrent search plugin for it, so you don’t even need to open the website.

It should play in VLC or MPV, but HDR looks like crap on a regular monitor. Even after tone mapping, it will never look as good as something filmed in SDR.

I hope lots of people will post videos of them destroying the listening devices in interesting ways.

It’s never worked for me either. The ClearURLs addon has a function to copy a clean URL and that works great though. It’s open source, so maybe someone could turn its cleaning function into a program that could be used for the clipboard.