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LTO tape is good for 30 years when properly stored. You should be transferring the data to a newer format much sooner than that anyways. LTO drives are only backwards compatible for 1 or 2 versions, so you probably won't be able to find a working drive that can read your tape 30 years later.

Is it x264 or AV1? They are two completely different codecs. If it's AV1, you may not have hardware acceleration since it's fairly new. It takes a lot of power to software decode AV1 and you will get dropped frames if the CPU can't keep up.

I've never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

Solar panels are already quite cheap. What we need is much cheaper grid forming inverters so we can stop destabilizing the grid with solar.

You basically need a supercomputer for windows 11 to not run like complete shit. Linux will run well on 15 year old hardware, although I wouldn't suggest anything that old if you care about power consumption.

There's a browser addon that lets you disable auto translation.

The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don't use more than about 75% of it's rated output.

I haven't had any issues with my RX 6700 XT. It works great for games and CAD. I've never gotten the video encoding working though. I think it needs the proprietary drivers.

When I used dial-up, local calls were free.

I don't think a mobile version would be practical, they don't have enough processing power. Blender needs a high end PC.

Switch to IPv6 only and the port scans will go away. The address space is so big that port scanning is difficult, so the usual bots don't bother.

If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it's not low end.

Yeah, but it can't run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.

That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

I would much rather have a safer battery, even if it's a bit bigger and heavier.

It would be nice if they would switch to safer batteries like LiFePO4 for power banks. They rarely catch fire and you can put them out with a fire extinguisher.

Down at the bottom of the network tab, it will tell you the total size.

The first column is the total size of the page, the second is how much was actually downloaded. That will be smaller if the web server uses compression or if any of the files are already cached.

I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.

It slows down when you have tens of thousands of emails in one folder. Archiving old emails by month helps keep it running smoothly. For some reason, it won't let you do that with gmail accounts unless you archive to a local folder though.

If you want to create threads in FreeCAD, install the fasteners workbench. It makes it much easier and it has a setting for creating 3D printable threads.