There are mid range CPUs with 128MB of L3 cache now. A Linux distro like Tiny Core could fit entirely in cache.

In Thunderbird you can move the emails to a local folder and they will be fully downloaded.

It was buggy and crashed a lot, but at least there was no telemetry.

That would be my suggestion. They only take a single slot and some are even passively cooled.

SLC drives have around 100,000 write cycles. Most consumer SSDs are QLC now and those have less than 1,000 write cycles. They also tend to write slower than a mechanical hard drive when the write cache gets full. Some of those drives can be modified to run in pseudo SLC mode. That trades capacity for speed and write endurance.

If you want rechargeable batteries, just put some eneloop batteries (or some of the cheaper, rebranded ones) in the remote. They are not like the old NiMH batteries, they hold a charge for a years.

I certainly don’t want a remote that I have to throw out in a few years because the non-replaceable lithium battery wore out.

If you are just self hosting for your own use, just stick with letsencrypt or self signed certificates.

The paid certificates are for businesses where the users need to trust the certificate. They usually come with warranties and identity verification, which is important if you are accepting payments through your website, but it’s just a waste of money for personal use.

The SD card probably crapped out because someone didn’t know how to make it read only.

That works until the battery puffs up and cracks the screen. Phones don’t last long when plugged in 24/7. Also keep in mind that WiFi cameras can easily be jammed.

It used to, but it’s had the option to save an actual video for a long time now.

Most devices generate a random IPv6 address and change it frequently. Your browser fingerprint is much more useful for device tracking than your IP address anyways.

Just because each device has a globally routable IP address doesn’t mean they can be accessed from outside your LAN. You still have to add a firewall rule to open a port to the device.

It’s only decent until you need to do something the GUI doesn’t support. Then it will overwrite whatever you changed in the CLI or luci every time it boots up.

10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives were made obsolete by SSDs and were discontinued several years ago. They are slower than many modern 7,200 rpm drives.

Unless you’re using ancient hardware, you already have an internet connected back door in your CPU.

They aren’t patching CPUs that were released 5 years ago.

They should be patching back to Ryzen 1 since those are still perfectly good CPUs. 5-7 years really isn’t that old considering how little improvement there is with each generation.

Kodi doesn’t do any transcoding. It just mounts the NFS share and plays the file.

Cat5e works fine for gigabit. If it’s not connecting at 1G, then the cable has been damaged and is probably connecting at 100M.

You should be seeing about 118MB/s in an iperf test on gigabit ethernet.

It would have been nice if they came up with something shorter like .lan.

That depends on the ISP having backup batteries for their equipment. It will usually only last a couple of hours. 5G will usually stay up for a few days. For longer outages, you will need satellite internet and lots of fuel for your generator.