Title is incorrect, it’s not Mullvad donating the money but one of the owners.

Out of all the problems with GTA VI so far physical media is pretty low on my list… I feel like the sky high price, subscription, in-game things potentially locked behind game versions, and so on is more worrying.

Any of them really, there should be very little difference between distros on the latest kernels.

The immich public proxy app is built for this, you run it on your isolated public VLAN, and it displays a shared album to people while loading the images from immich.

Good, that’s how things are supposed to work!

If a politician is so out of the loop that they have no idea what their own voters want, they should not be in office. Nice to see that work for once since it feels like it rarely does.

You can try and figure out what’s accessing the array:

fatrace | grep /mnt/mountpoint/

This will show you the process, type of access (read, write, open, etc), and path. If you don’t see anything right away just leave it running for a bit.

The SFF or MT form factors are a lot better, I’d say MT is the best as it has full height PCIe slots. Keep in mind the dell/hp/lenovo models all use proprietary motherboard form factors and power supplies, but not that big of a deal I think since there are so many parts available if something does break.

I highly recommend 7th gen intel or newer, as you get the much better quicksync support and quality.

If you get a desktop class CPU (i5-7500 for example), the whole computer will typically draw around 15W at idle with an SSD, which is pretty decent.

If you need less idle power draw then you’ll want a mobile/notebook class CPU (like an i3-7100u) as the idle usage should be less than 5W. But those typically only come in the micro/mini form factors.

Also good to remember that every 3.5" HDD draws around 7W when idle and spun-up (typically difficult to spin down on servers since there’s always some process accessing files).

Yeah any extra fabs able to produce ‘last gen’ DDR4 would have a big impact.

Or the ‘modern workflow’ version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!

Maybe run the public VPN at home with NAT enabled, and use it as the default gateway in the private VPN. Never done it but I think I’ve seen some guides on that concept.

I guess maybe 8GB is fine if all you do is have a browser open with some tabs… W11 is not RAM friendly.

IMO an older used Android phone in airplane mode makes a great MP3 player. Lots of options for like $30-50 on eBay and a lot of them will have headphone jacks and microSD card slots.

If you build a PC with DDR4 RAM it does get cheaper, and I think under $1k is very doable.

TBH USB-C to 3.5mm adapters are better anyways IMO, they’re very small and just stay attached to my headphones, have a better DAC and amplifier inside than most onboard 3.5mm jacks ever did, and it never gets stuffed full of pocket lint which was always an issue on phones that had an onboard jack.

Is there any window in the room (or close by) where you could stick the vent outside when drying stuff?

I don’t see how it could condense the very hot damp air from the drier without an active refrigerant loop drawing a fair amount of power. It would also heat up the laundry room like crazy.

That’s basically the headline for every major windows update these days.

TBH it should be a configurable option on every update tool. On my windows install I have unigetui set to only show updates older than 14 days so winget, pip, etc don’t even show brand new updates.

I’m genuinely curious if PGP is used on emails much? It seems like most email these days is just receiving updates or mailing lists, and those aren’t going to be using PGP.

One with my own domain name attached has always been my go-to because I can migrate to a different provider easily without needing to update all my accounts.