That’s better, but is it simpler?

If the machines are in the same building a USB stick is the simplest option :D

Some value software freedom more than performance, and the open source Nouveau Nvidia driver isn’t quite there yet on performance.

The only PC fan manufacture that has not gone RGB at all is a Noctua (premium). Their fans are poop brown and beige or black for consumer, grey for industrial, but are great in terms of noise to cool performance. If noise is important then there’s videos of people comparing fans so you can pick a tone that is subjectively best.

I enjoyed the days of one color LEDS. Couldn’t beat a Tron blue or The Matrix green.

The responsiveness between a hard drive and an SSD is night and day. NVMe is even faster but not noticeable unless you move a hell of a lot of data around. A motherboard having at least 1 M.2 NVMe slot is common, so installing the OS on it is an option. Hard drives have more storage per price, but unless space is significant factor I suggest using SSDs (also quieter than a spinning disk!). More info on storage formats in this video

Recent generations of motherboards use DDR5 RAM, which were very expensive on release. I think the price has come down but I am not up to date this generation. You may be able to save money making a DDR4 system but you’ll be stuck on a less supported platform.

AMD had like ~10 years of bad/power hungry processors and Intel stagnated, re-releasing 4-core processors over and over. AMD made a big comeback with their Ryzen series becoming best bang for buck, then even over taking Intel. I think it’s pretty even now.

If you don’t intend to game or do certain compute workloads then you can avoid buying a GPU. Integrated CPUs have come quite far (still low end compared to a dedicated GPU). Crypto mining, Covid and now AI has made the GPUs market expensive and boring. Nvidia has more higher-end cards, mid range is way more expensive for both and low end sucks ass. On Linux AMD GPUs drivers come with the OS, but Nvidia you have to get their proprietary drivers (Linux gaming has come a long way).

If it’s trivially completed then why make it a “requirement”, don’t emulate business’s bad practices for no good reason.

I tend to use disposable emails so if I’m ever logged out then that account is gone. Fine by me, I hope that’s not much to process for hosters.

Can’t imagine any perceivable value of my media for family members, even if they could figure out how to use it.
Since my desktop isn’t running Windows I’m not sure my sister could just start using it instead of my old rig I gave her.

How long do SSDs last in a time capsule?

This is madness 🤯

If they’re easy to get, why have them 😑

I want it encrypted but I don’t want to ask a 3rd party to get a certificate.

Why not HTTP :c

Buy rug, put rug over cable on floor, disregard any discouragement of steps 1 or 2.

That I can get behind. I’ve been meaning to get a Pi or equivilent.

As far as I know that is still “fast” here in the UK 😅

Damn. Does Cisco use their own silicon anymore or are many modern units able to run Tomato/Wrtt?

My limited understanding is Cisco stuff is very blackbox/proprietary. I’d sooner spend time learning how to hack them out of spite ;)

That’s neat, not had that before. All that comes to mind is a LAN security camera system.