There’s nothing wrong with using leaded solder, you just need to wash your hands after soldering. Many of the components made before RoHS will contain lead too.

Old capacitors may be no good. Electrolytic capacitors go bad with age. You can measure the leakage and ESR to see if they are still good. Any paper capacitors are going to be very leaky by now. If there are any oil filled capacitors from the 1970’s or earlier, they may contain PCB oil, which is very toxic.

About the only thing I would consider using QLC for is games since write speed doesn’t matter and they can just be downloaded again if they get corrupted.

It’s not hard to make a useful website that’s small. You just have to avoid using javascript libraries and keep images to a minimum. There are a number of static web page generators if you don’t want to write HTML yourself.

Keep in mind that a 50 kB page is about a 15 second load on a typical dial-up connection. Before high speed internet, almost everyone kept their web pages small.

That trace is a fuse.

Yes, that’s why they don’t care about copyrighted content outside of Russia.

Well, they have had a lot of vulnerabilities. Most people won’t even update the firmware let alone install OpenWRT on them.

Get a magnetic case for a tablet and stick it to the fridge. If it starts showing ads, you can take it off, put it through the wood chipper and the fridge will still work fine.

Programs running on Wine still have access to all of the files that you do. They won’t be able to mess with system files unless they can find some sort of privilege escalation exploit in Wine though.

The article was about TVs, not computer monitors. Most people don’t sit nearly as close to a TV as they do a monitor.

Why would anyone give Bethesda more money for the same game, but with all the mods broken?

I wonder if this will help the delivery drivers find my house? They seem to deliver my packages to my neighbors house more often than mine, despite it being 600 feet away and me reporting it every time. They will probably just ignore it like they do their GPS.

Or just install Consent-O-Matic. By default, it’s set to automatically reject all cookies.

That hard drive is probably multiple gigabytes, it would take days to weeks to transfer that over a serial port. If the computer has a PC card slot, I would look for an ethernet adapter that would work with it.

I’ve also got a couple of older drives that my IDE to USB adapter refuses to work with. I never found a solution, but the drives work fine in a PC that has a real IDE interface.

Just put tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=4G 0 0 in /etc/fstab then reboot and /tmp will be a RAM drive. Set size to whatever you want the maximum size to be.

It will probably just push more people to piracy. The streaming companies have been doing a good job of that lately.

It’s a switch, there shouldn’t be anything to go obsolete.

Bash still saves the command history. You can of course turn that off if you want to. There are also settings to prevent it from saving certain commands. It can also be set to not save commands that are prefixed with a space.

I usually see more captchas when going through my VPS. That’s probably because it’s not a residential IP address. Youtube has gotten really picky lately, they will probably make you sign in after watching a couple of videos.

You can use xinput to temporarily disable a keyboard. Run xinput list to get its ID, then run xinput float ID to disable it.