Just sailing? Single hard drive connected to what ever

Hosting stuff you care about? Some form of raid/zfs/whatever with at least 2 discs and a backup plan, also hooked up to what ever

That is the bare minimum. Buy used and expect your needs to change within a month/year.

SSD is a bit optimistic for that laptop, quick Google shows a potential 5400rpm sata drive

English, French, maybe German, binary and hexadecimal

Although hexadecimal might be considered cheating

For future reference Amazon and eBay are full of counterfeit board games, and once reported do nothing about it other than refund you and remove the negative review. I usually go to independent known websites for games, or a store if they have what I want. An alternative to eBay would be boardgamegeek for used games, be careful with new games on eBay showing generic publisher provided imagery

Only when used correctly

Or just use Linux?

Remember COVID? Do that

I had a router that I converted to a access point with openwrt, couldn’t get vlan trunking to work, so I ran 3 separate network cables back to the switch and assigned each one to its own WiFi network

This with remote transmission on your phone to control it

Well it depends where you sit on the bell curve, 1/8 of the population thinks the other 1/8 are fucking stupid, whilst been completely oblivious to the fact that they are in fact also fucking stupid

It’s Unix all the way down I’m afraid

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EG-tech/digipres-posters/master/OS_kernel_timeline.jpg

Snaps…

Yeah you’ll have to wait until at least march

I use xfce as a desktop, so based purely on looks windows xp. The problem is the enshitification of windows, improvements in one area drags it’s screaming backwards in other ways, I’m looking at you control panel, you get dumber and less helpful every time I look at you.

Do you have any spare pcie slots, you can get m.2 pcie cards

Mythtv is awesome if you want to watch live TV, DVR the live TV or watch media. I’ve never been able to get it to work easily with streamed content. However you can just download the content you want and watch it as media. Best part is you can split the backend (disks, TV tuners etc) front the frontend (playback) and have a tiny box sat next to your tv

Are you on carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) WAN ip in the address space 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255?

I’ve seen a lot of weird user workflow in my time, I’d rate this one 3/10, the comic highlights the extreme nature people some times get to.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

What is it about a smart phone that you don’t want/like?