Or self driving cars.

Just install a VPN server on your computer or router. That’s all you need unless you’re stuck on CGNAT.

The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.

You can get a free VPN from Proton.

Yeah, they probably want to kill it and switch people over to a cloud service with a monthly subscription.

The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.

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.

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.

It’s easy if you use the right tool.

1. Draw circle in Inkscape
2. Export as bitmap
3. Import bitmap in GIMP.

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

I’ve never had good luck with NFS on a high latency connection. SSHFS still works fine even if the server is on the other side of the planet.

SSHFS is secure and works well over the internet. If you only want to access it over the LAN, then NFS is a much better option.

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.

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?