Try a different cable too.

Yes, it runs a separate browser instance for each electron program. Many of the programs that use it could just be a PWA instead.

No, some of them are running generators on site to get more power.

I’m surprised they don’t have torrent downloads for it. That would save on bandwidth costs and it’s more reliable since torrent clients verify the checksum and automatically redownload any corrupted blocks.

There are plenty of good FOSS text editors out there. I certainly don’t want to use one that was barfed up by an AI.

Nice, it has twice as many failure points as previous folding phones.

You can slow the RAM down too. You don’t need XMP enabled if you’re just using the PC as a NAS. It can be quite power hungry.

I’ve never seen any machine translation that I would consider anywhere near good.

I hope not. Around here, you just step outside and there will be a dozen swarming around you.

Yeah, no. If you really need to run Android apps on a PC, you can run them with Waydroid.

It’s probably an mSATA SSD. They look like a mini PCIe card, but they are keyed differently and use SATA.

They are disabling it because the license cost went up 4 cents? Just pass that cost onto the customer. Even if they mark that up several times, I would rather pay that than have my battery drained because I have to software decode a video.

There is still a lot of H.265 content out there. I have many terabytes of it that I don’t want to transcode.

You can’t hide or get rid of the browser fingerprint, but some addons can help to randomize it so it looks like you’re using a different device every time you visit a site.

You need to backup any data you want to keep to another drive before installing.

Make sure there’s nothing important on the flash drive too. Writing the iso will erase everything on it.

You can also use exFAT if you want cross platform support. It’s had a Linux kernel driver for quite a while now.

Some people modify phones to run without an internal battery. That’s a bit of a pain since the screen will have to be detached and there will be wires hanging out though.

Laptops are easier. Most of them will still boot with the battery disconnected. They will usually show a warning during boot and some of them will require you to press a key to continue booting. Running without a battery may limit the performance, especially if you’re not using the highest wattage charger the laptop supports.

Not when it comes with the huge downside of non upgradeable RAM. I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

That hardware still has plenty of power for basic use. It should be good for another 10 years running Linux.

Look up the FCC ID of any ham radio. You will find that they are listed as a “Scanning Receiver”. It’s up to the operator to make sure it complies with FCC part 97 requirements.

I had an upgrade fail and completely break the install a long time ago. I haven’t tried a distribution upgrade since then. I just format and install a new distro every couple of years. It cleans out all the crap I end up with from 3rd party repositories and stuff I’ve compiled from source. I’m sure upgrades probably work a lot better now though.

I did have Arch running on one of my laptops for quite a while, but I quit using it after it started falling apart.