You can put a separate Wine prefix for each game on your NAS and use a launcher like Lutris to run the games. You can share the Wine prefix between multiple computers. Newer games that require a SSD probably won’t work well over the network though.

The private DNS function is also very useful if you manually set it to an ad blocking DNS server.

In that case it would be unusable in any remote area without cell service too.

A fire is what you may get when a hacker decides to turn the oven on for you.

It’s only a matter of time before corporate WANs like Amazon sidewalk and/or the ever decreasing cost of cellular modems and IOT contracts mean they won’t even ask anymore.

Then it’s time to heat up the soldering iron and disable the wireless connectivity in hardware.

I wouldn’t really trust Intel CPUs after the degradation issues they were having. It will take a while to prove that it’s been fixed.

Don’t use btrfs if you need RAID 5 or 6.

The RAID56 feature provides striping and parity over several devices, same as the traditional RAID5/6. There are some implementation and design deficiencies that make it unreliable for some corner cases and the feature should not be used in production, only for evaluation or testing. The power failure safety for metadata with RAID56 is not 100%.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid56-status-and-recommended-practices

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a public WiFi network with IPv6 enabled. I usually just use the hotspot on my phone to access my server since my cell carrier provides IPv6. I do have a VPN as a backup though.

I use rsync to transfer files between my VPS and computer. Don’t torrent on Oracle Cloud without a VPN, they will terminate your account.

Single board computers have GPIO and interfaces like SPI and I2C. They also tend to have lower power consumption and can run from 5 volts. If you want to interface with low level hardware or run from batteries, the SBC will usually be the better choice.

Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it’s corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.

That works 99% of the time. I’ve run across a couple that refuse to extract, so I had to run them in a VM and copy the files over.

I would get a recertified enterprise drive from Server Part Deals. Drives in the 12-18TB range currently have the best price per TB. Be sure to get a SATA drive if it’s going in a desktop.

For a dual port card, you will want an 8 lane PCIe 3.0 slot connected to the CPU. Almost any desktop CPU will have enough lanes since you won’t be using a graphics card. You can get by with a 4 lane slot, but you won’t be able to max out both ports bidirectionally at the same time.

MakeMKV is the only cross platform bluray ripper that I’m aware of that will work with any disc. For DVDs, I normally use Handbrake.

I wonder how many issues rewriting everything in another language will create?

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

The stock software will not run in Wine. I would suggest picking hardware that’s supported by Piper.

Wow, maybe we will finally get to see a launch next year.

Because modern “journalists” only know how to copy and paste from other “news sites” and random social media posts.