Or self driving cars.

There’s always the option of using computer monitors or projectors.

Use your own email client instead of their crappy web UI or app.

Well, my ad blocker will just block twice as many ads then.

Just install a VPN server on your computer or router. That’s all you need unless you’re stuck on CGNAT.

The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.

Unless the filament ships in a foil lined bag that’s vacuum sealed with desiccant and an indicator card, you should assume it’s wet.

You can get a free VPN from Proton.

Yeah, they probably want to kill it and switch people over to a cloud service with a monthly subscription.

Get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm.

The mechanical ones are really cool. There’s no way I would pay that much for the electronic ones though.

The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.

Yes, they are called flexi discs.

There’s been pirates on FLTSATCOM for decades. That’s what you get when you launch a bunch of satellites that repeat anything with no authentication though.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.

The DE won’t really make much of a performance difference on a high end computer.

They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.

If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.

It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.

Linux native games are great as long as the engine is open source. If it’s closed source, it will eventually stop running on up-to-date distros some time after the developer stops updating it. For closed source games, it would be better to develop for excellent wine/proton compatibility so the game will continue to be playable long after it stops getting updates.

Well, Hollywood seems to prefer quantity over quality. Now 99% of everything is junk that’s not worth wasting your time on.