MKVToolNix will work even if the file is not MKV. It will just remux it to MKV.

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.

Nope, I use Thunderbird.

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

It’s definitely cheaply built. There is no RFI filtering and they used a resistor as a fuse. At least it appears to have a decent amount of separation between the high and low voltage sides though.

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.

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.

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.

You don’t get segmentation faults if you don’t have an MMU. That can certainly make debugging more interesting when your firmware starts overwriting memory that it shouldn’t until it finally crashes.

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.

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

You can get a VPN or seedbox to avoid those letters. They are a lot cheaper than a single streaming service.

There is a Firefox addon called ClearURLs that automatically removes all of the tracking crap. It works on PC and Android.

Is the pre amp powered over the coax? The filter may not be designed to handle power.
Nearby lightning could have fried the filter. A direct strike is not needed to cause damage.
It could just be terrible build quality. The filter could have had a bad solder joint that cracked.

That would be my suggestion. They only take a single slot and some are even passively cooled.