I backup stuff on blurays and DVDs a couple times a year. I also wrote a copy of FreeDOS and some software onto a stack of floppies recently.

Only works if it’s an incandescent light

LED and fluorescent lights get hot too, it just takes a bit longer.

Torrents don’t need trackers either. They can work with just DHT.

Run an iperf test to see if the ethernet adapter is working correctly. The speed tests on my USB ethernet adapter are almost identical to an integrated one as long as it’s connected to a USB 3 port.

I would recommend installing Heroic Launcher too. It works good for GoG, Epic & Amazon games.

So what happens when the certificate expires? Do you get locked out if you don’t have physical access?

You can put Linux on the computer and customize it however you want. If you don’t want a task bar, you don’t have to have one. You can move it where ever you want, adjust the size or even have multiple task bars on each monitor.

If you don’t have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don’t support port forwarding.

There is a PipeWire module for ASHA. It looks like it has issues with a lot of devices though.

My windows XP install kept breaking and I got tired of fixing it, so I tried Linux and never went back.

Yes, that’s fine as long as whatever you’re hosting is designed to be safely used on the internet. Just keep it up to date and only expose the stuff you need to. I would suggest setting up fail2ban to block IPs that repeatedly fail to log in though. Depending on what you’re hosting, you may need bot protection, but if all they can see is a login page, they shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Just make sure you’re not using an EUI64 address. That significantly narrows down the number of addresses per subnet to scan. The bots found one of my computers that was using one. It took them 3 years to find it though.

I use inleed.xyz. It’s free, has IMAP/SMTP access and you can have as many accounts as you want. It’s limited to 1GB of storage shared between all accounts though.

That’s fine as long as it’s a standard 1.44MB or 720K formatted disk. For anything else, you will probably need an old PC or a Greaseweazle.

If you use the web UI, you can adjust the zoom in your browser.

Try a different cable too.

Yes, if you have IPv6, you can open a port in the firewall and have external access. Whatever you are accessing it from must have IPv6 as well though.

MakeMKV works great on Linux. I used it to backup all of my blurays and DVDs without any issues.

That would require the car to have a fast charger on board. That’s a lot of extra cost and weight.

It would be much better to have a robotic connector that automatically connects to the car when you pull up to the charger.

With a 50 kWh battery, that’s 5 kWh wasted per full charge or 90 cents at the average US electric rate just for being too lazy to plug in a cable.