I was worried that Bambu would try to pull the same crap that Dymo did with their label printers.

I’m very glad I didn’t buy one of their printers. The RFID tag thing was enough to keep me from buying anything from them. This is even worse.

Aaand… IPv6 is great. But unfortunately the way things are now means that giving everything on your network a publicly routable IPv6 address is a very bad idea.

A publicly routable IPv6 address doesn’t mean publicly accessible unless you specifically open a port in the firewall. IPv6 privacy extensions, which basically everything uses now, means than the address changes frequently so individual devices can’t be tracked by their IP address.

If you are worried about it, put them on their own VLAN with no internet access. Set a firewall rule so that only the computer you use to control it can talk to that VLAN.

Unless you added a firewall rule allowing inbound access to the printer’s IPv6 address, nothing will be able to make an inbound connection to it from the internet.

None of the scanners on VirusTotal picked up anything. What makes you think the PDF if malicious?

You can buy from multiple stores and mix in a bunch of other stuff to make it hard for someone to figure out what you’re building.

Home 3D movies were never good, you didn’t miss much.

I will not buy a Thinkpad if it doesn’t have a trackpoint. They work so much better than a touchpad, especially for things like selecting text.

The only things that really matter are storage space and power consumption. If you want to transcode videos, then you will need a GPU that supports encoding whatever codec you want to use.

I’ve been using zoneminder with some POE IP cameras for a long time. It works pretty well, but the interface looks like it’s from the 90’s. I just wish it would do object detection so it wouldn’t send alerts because of shadows or a spider crawling across the lens.

My cameras have been out in the weather for over a decade and are starting to get a bit flaky. I will probably upgrade to some 4K analog cameras and a DVR that can do object detection. Modern IP cameras still don’t support gigabit and I don’t want any more 100M stuff on my network. I don’t trust WiFi for anything security related because it’s too easy to jam.

It’s better to disable ssh password login and use keys instead.

You don’t need 64 bit programs or CPUs to fix the 2038 problem. You just need to use a 64 bit time_t. It will work fine on 32 bit CPUs or even 8 bit microcontrollers.

They should have mandated markings on the plugs that indicate what the cable supports.

SATA SSDs are still more than fast enough to saturate a 2.5G ethernet connection. Some HDDs can even saturate 2.5G on large sequential reads and writes. The higher speed from M.2 NVMe drives isn’t very useful when they overheat and thermal throttle quickly. You need U.2 or EDSFF drives for sustained high speed transfers.

Private trackers tend to have more hard to find content available, especially if the tracker specializes in that kind of content. They often have the ability to make requests if they don’t have what you’re looking for too. On the good ones, the requests tend to be filled quickly. The content is well moderated, so you are much less likely to find malware or bad or low quality releases. The downloads are usually a lot faster too. Many people use seedboxes, so 1gbps+ download speeds are not uncommon.

My server with 8 hard drives uses about 60 watts and goes up to around 80 under heavy load. The firewall, switch, access points and modem use another 50-60 watts.

I really need upgrade my server and firewall to something about 10 years newer, it would reduce my power consumption quite a bit and I would have a lot more runtime on UPS.

Check your local library. Many of them have DVDs you can borrow. The older ones may be fullscreen. Then you can rip them with Handbrake.

It doesn’t hurt to keep the torrent running if you can’t find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I’ve had stuff download after waiting for months.

It would be nice if they would make a module that has 120 Gbps USB4 or Oculink for connecting high end external GPUs.

You will get nasty letters if you torrent on Starlink without a VPN and they may disconnect you. It’s CGNAT, so performance will be crap without a VPN since you can’t use port forwarding. The upload is rather slow, so you may want to consider a seedbox, especially if you use private trackers.