It could cause data corruption, but it wouldn’t damage the sectors. The reallocation is done by the firmware in the hard drive when the sector is not able to store data.

A bad SATA cable can cause the link errors, but it wouldn’t cause sectors to be reallocated.

I wouldn’t even want to pirate it. I like LibreOffice a lot better.

There is a workaround to run Waydroid on X11, so you can still run it even if Wayland doesn’t support your window manager.

There is the Wine Application Database.

What distro has ddc/ci support out of the box? I’ve always had to install a DKMS module to get an external monitor to show up in /sys/class/backlight.

The monochrome and newer color Brother printers usually work fine without installing any drivers. If it supports IPP Everywhere, it will definitely work fine. It’s the older color printers that usually need the proprietary driver for full support.

It’s not really worth the trouble to try to host your own e-mail. There are lots of e-mail hosts that you can use with your own domain. A few of them are free and there are plenty of low cost ones. As long as you use your own domain, you can switch hosts whenever you want and keep your addresses.

The data is burned into a piece of glass with a laser. It doesn’t use a dye to store data like a CD-R. I doubt bit rot would be much of an issue. With that much capacity, you could use lots of forward error correction though.

Syncthing and Nextcloud are both FOSS. You don’t need to sign up for anything.

That probably just means a larger bribe will be required.

A large FPGA could work as a hardware video decoder that is software updatable. Unfortunately they are way to expensive for consumer hardware.

It would be nice if someone would make low cost hardware video decoders on an m.2 module. Then it could be easily upgraded even on a laptop.

Software decoding should work fine on modern PCs if the bitrate isn’t really high. You will want hardware support for anything battery powered though.

That motherboard has a very limited number of PCIe lanes. Using the second m.2 slot will slow down the second GPU. All of the other slots are coming from the chipset and are only PCIe 2.0.

I would get rid of the second GPU, then there would be enough lanes to run 3 SSDs at PCIe 3.0 x4.

It would probably make a good terminal if it had an RS-232 serial port. The CM5 would be overkill for that. A Pi Zero would be sufficient and a lot less power hungry.

There’s no way I’m going to be doing much typing on that tiny keyboard though.

I rarely go over 1TB per month at home. It’s usually closer to 500GB. My seedbox goes through several TB per month with all of those Linux ISOs though.

You can convert 3 of the 5.25" external drive bays to 5 3.5" drive bays. That’s what I did with my NAS.

Have you tried using a different DNS server? The one you’re using could be blocking it. Try using DNS over HTTPS.

I certainly won’t be upgrading until DDR6 memory is available. My PC still runs everything I need just fine. I just want a more energy efficient CPU. Mine uses 80 watts sitting idle.

You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Fingerprints should never be used as the only authentication factor for anything important.