yea I used to use a raspberry pi but it is way too slow with a massive library. and for youtube even the 4 performance is dwarfed by some random half broken laptop. I haven’t tried the pi 5 but doesn’t really matter

yea lol you gotta get some spray pesticide in there for that

scans for open ports ran continuously since the 1990s, it was never a big deal. Also they only run on lower ports (not that it matters)

what are you talking about killing your internet performance? You can have hundreds of thousands of scans per day (which isn’t gonna happen, you won’t even get 100) and it still won’t bog down jank cable internet from early 2000s

It’s zipping a zip file. E

no it isn’t, zipping is lossless. encoding is lossy.

just sad…

No, the specific file size is irrelevant, he’s wanting smaller file sizes. CRF is a waste of data on more than 70% of scenes in hollywood movies. You set a bitrate and let it go. This is also why virtually all music now is VBR

well they did, but now definitely not.

just fyi x264 and x265 are programs, written by VideoLAN organization. h264 and h265 are the codecs

And no doing that is no guarantee in visibly worse quality. Depends entirely on the video in that scenario. Plenty of them will look almost the same (though h265 is a lot blurrier than 264, I’d say h264 to h264 you’re likely to barely notice)

Do it.

There’s really not much that can end badly, someone gets in your network (unlikely anyone even knows it exists)? reformat all your shit. Just by knowing what a DMZ is you are already more qualified than half the people I’ve met self hosting

do you run a business out of your house? do you run a bunch of peoples personal info? does anyone else? If you answered no to all of these then there really isn’t much that can “go wrong” you can just unplug your shit.

hosting email also isn’t that big of a deal but your home ISP will block port 25, you need to have a “business” one for them to unblock it and even then sometimes have to directly request it. Things like mailcow docker make it dead easy.

and yea as the other guy said always update your stuff

I agree. Just run it. that’s how I learned decades ago. Don’t ignore it either if you wanna get better.

The risks are just as bad as owning some amazon IoT device

yea they’ll plug in the drive and windows will popup “this drive needs to be formatted” and the rest is history

These days I find ublock as useful for blocking the stupid cookie popups as it is for ads. Honestly the cookie popups on a lot of sites are worse than their ads. The “do not track me” shit in browser should be enough for them to just auto reject all for you.

Really good to see. Will be nice especially on nvme ssds. I imagine storage calls for me won’t even be noticeable at that level

and it probably never will. Inkscape is for vector graphics, like illustrator is for vector graphics. Photoshop isn’t really for that.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17

I’ve been using gimp 2.99 (gimp 3.0 alpha? dev builds?) for like 5 years. glad they finally released it…

https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

digital rights management (drm) predates linux

Surge protectors go bad just fyi. All surge protectors protect against every surge that hits a house. The surge goes everywhere at the same time and all surge protectors will suppress it. The closer it is to the “source” the better. Whole home protectors generally are for bigger surges but they do have multi types “levels” in them (there are 4 types, but these are different “types”). There are a lot of good videos on this subject on youtube

Yea you are right, I would say 1990s based on the wattage rating being on a metal plate embedded into that plastic. Not newer than 2000 unless it is some very specialty company.

Yea all of them should be able to pull off because the cover cannot go on with the knob on there. However there could be a screw in the side holding it on, can’t see all the way around it. If your mom is old she might just have shit grip strength and can’t grab it to pull it off. I know plenty of older women that have what I’d consider no strength there at all, that is all forearm.