You just need a video capture card or dongle for your computer. Preferably one with an S-video input. If these are pre recorded tapes, you will also need a Macrovision remover connected between the VCR and capture card. If you want the quality to be as good as possible, you will need a timebase corrector. Those are hard to find and expensive though. The TBC will also remove the Macrovision.

Many routers support more than one SSID per radio.

You didn’t need anything that fancy. You could build a Macrovision remover circuit. The schematics were certainly harder to find before the web, but you could build one up in an afternoon with parts from RadioShack.

I’ve got 12 years and 5 months on a Western Digital WD20EARX HDD. It’s starting to get some bad sectors.

I’ve got a similar runtime on a SAMSUNG SpinPoint F2 and it still seems to be healthy. There’s nothing important on either of them, I just want to see how long they will last.

I prefer mine with a cord. It looks like there are still plenty of wireless mice available that use AA batteries. Eneloop batteries work great for those.

Public torrents don’t require trackers. Bittorrent can use DHT to operate completely decentralized.

That’s not going to hit anything at 2000 feet. Everyone needs anti aircraft cannons now.

A UPS can keep the modem and phone running for a couple of hours. If you have satellite internet, it will work for as long as you can power it. Cable or DSL will go out when the battery dies in the ISP’s equipment.

Landlines have gotten a lot less reliable in a lot of areas because the phone companies don’t want to maintain them. Mine would go out as soon as the power did when I cancelled it.

I’ve still got thousands of old TV shows recorded in xvid.

The watchable ones are recorded from the projection booth and have an audio cable connected to the camera.

They say it will be equivalent to moonlight. With such a small mirror, I doubt it will even be that bright.

The real issue will be a really bright satellite messing with astronomy. If they somehow manage to launch 50,000 of them, it will be huge problem.

MoCa adapters are a decent option if running new cable is difficult, but 10 gig adapters still aren’t available.

If you want 10 gig, run fiber, not CAT6. Twisted pair uses a lot of power. Fiber uses less than a watt per port and is future proof.

MTP is really buggy and unreliable. It doesn’t matter if it’s on Linux or windows. If you need to transfer a lot of data, I would suggest using the android debug bridge.

Hopefully we will see a lot less of it with the cost of AI going up. Eventually it will just be the big companies that can afford it.

Of course they are. That slop is unmaintainable.

Many laptops will still run fine without the battery plugged in. I prefer mini PCs though.

Stay away from anything Android unless you are going to run a google free ROM on it.

The rest of the world will have access to cheap Chinese RAM, so the AI companies investment will still be devalued.

What, is that like the cost of a dozen of their ink cartridges? That fine needs a lot more zeros.

Have you tried using a different SATA cable. I had one go bad and the drive started throwing all kinds of errors.

Firefox works fine unless I’m on a really bad internet connection.