Shareholders need more profits. So, shareholders.

Once again - blame the Dodge brothers (yes, that Dodge).

Oh noooooo hahahaha

The previous owner of mine was absolutely a pet owner. It was chock full of fur. Luckily nobody in my house has any pet allergies…

If you can manage to get video out, I’m sure it can be done. Maybe you can even stream Doom to a web browser.

Yeah, that’s a rough one. Manufacturers really don’t want us mucking about and will release different versions under the same name all to obfuscate that process.

A lot of TVs are like this as well; we have a curved Samsung 55" that lost it’s backlight last year - not only did I need the model and serial numbers, I also needed the specific T-con board revision. A similar thing happened on my former TCL Roku TV several years before. Same deal.

Worth it IMO. These things get hella filthy inside. I took mine apart to replace its motherboard, and I’m glad I did because it needed a good cleaning.

Responded with the wrong account… I try not to have any crossover between my accounts, but here we are…

Anyway.

Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi?

Probably. I only have the two robots: the aforementioned Wyze, and a cheap Eufy Robovac 25C

Valetudo looks interesting tho.

It’s really quite fascinating. Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it’s a cloud replacement that’s hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.

Self-hosting doesn’t always mean exposing things to the internet. It just means you have a PC capable of running software/services that can be accessed over your network. Whether or not you choose to expose that to the internet is up to you.

Everybody knows Debian is actually Gentoo.

Probably any ISP that advertises “super duper extra special wifi” when it’s just a set of QoS rules.

Currently trying YunoHost now, though for some reason it says my GMKtec G9 has a MMC/Micro SD?

That’s because it does have eMMC storage - 64GB worth (I went and looked at their product page). “eMMC” storage is the exact same type of storage that SD cards use. eMMC storage devices pop up in Linux as /dev/mmcblkX (generally X = 0 for single devices), with their partitions tagged on the end of that device as p1, p2, etc.

“Legal streaming” is just cable 2.0. Pretty soon every tier is going to have ads in order to “maintain quality of service and content”, which is just corporate-speak for “imaginary money line go up forever”.

This shit is why I pirate with zero guilt.

Windows 7

It was never set in stone until the 2000 election.

Debian for sure. It’s the Toyota 4Runner of the operating system world:

• Older but proven tech that just chugs right along.
• Not a ton of features out of the box, but supported by basically everything aftermarket.
• Major updates, while slow but regular, bring a lot of improvements - most of which are under the hood.

This. My employer provides a laptop (Surface 7…eugh), and nothing personal outside of basic web browsing is done on it.

Oh cool! Just gonna add that real quick… falls down rabbit hole again

The shelf is fine, it was like that when I bought it (new). But I am definitely considering reinforcement.

Ah, klugerblickdummkopf

Oh for sure. I’ve got a handful of SFFs and mini PCs making up my little “homelab”:

(Yes, that’s the furnace. No, it’s not hot there. Ever. I’ve checked on it many, many times.)

I’ve also got another pair of Optiplex 9020s, an Optiplex 3040, and my old trusty HP Elite 8100 SFF w/8300 SFF mobo, i7-3770/32GB, and modded BIOS that supports booting from NVMe (via it.s M.2 PCIe card). Those are sitting in the closet just taking up space at the moment.

eBay supplied the 7050 and the mini PCs. My sister gave me the other Optiplexen from her work office.

A 35W i7-7700T mini PC from 2017 will absolutely spank a modern N150 in single and multi–threaded applications, and uses very little extra power to do so.

Mini PC is the way to go.