Yeah it took me a bit after 7 came out. But having all my excel windows in one group is way more efficent than two excel windows over here, one in the middle, and a 4th way off at the end of all my windows.

It’s a USB connected video adapter. Not USB C DP alt mode. USB USB.

At the best of times it’s solidly OK. At the worst of times it’s absolutely horrendous.

I had a few issues with 25H2 on release, but they’re largely fixed now.

24H2 and 25H2 are the same thing, it’s just enabling a few different changes. But things like the new obnoxiously ugly start menu have started showing on my 24H2 machines so I don’t really know what the difference is.

Exactly. I have tons of cheap (when new) laptops that still work perfectly. But that’s because I baby them. If I treated them like how I treat my ThinkPads or MacBooks they’d have been broken in a year or two. Plus who actually wants to type on a laptop that’s flexing more than the keys are moving?

Well if it’s anything like their previous models then it probably feels like it’s a toy. I remembered playing with a display model when I was thinking of buy it and was amazing by how flimsy it was.

On paper they seem like good laptops. But in practice?

You probably can, just nobody bothers to do it. My Subaru has installable apps. Hell older Hondas (and possibly current ones) just run android. You can even get to the regular android UI on them.

That’s nothing to do with android auto/car play and entirely down to the manufacturer of your car being an asshat.

Is it a Mazda? Mazda is one of the worst about this. I think they’ve gotten better in their latest cars, but that doesn’t fix the existing ones.

…no they can’t. Do you realize just how thick modern camera bumps are? Even not including the bump phones nowadays are thicker than phones 5 years ago.

The iPhone X was 7.7mm thick. The iPhone 17 pro excluding the bump is 8.7.

Phones 5 years ago have lightyears worse cameras than phones today.

Yeah I have zero qualms with my phone running slower if it means it doesn’t randomly reboot. That was the whole reason why Apple implemented it in the first place.

PS2 has remained surprisingly cheap over the years. I think the only reason it’s so cheap is because the OG PS3s are also a PS2 but with an HDMI port and wireless controllers. And those things keep creeping up in value. Too bad they’re so damn unreliable. PS2s on the other hand seem to be rock solid.

Emulators on PC doesn’t really help an android device.

How well does Anubis actually work though? I have no issues with getting past it using puppeteer. But I’m also just dicking around at home not crawling an entire website.

Cloudflare for sure doesn’t work very well at blocking puppeteer or anything that runs a full browser. It’ll stop things that only rip the raw web page, but if you’re running JS and even halfway trying it’s not an issue to get past. And let’s be real. Do you want a crawler ripping 300k of text, or 400MB of page + images + videos + whatever other unnecessary garbage are on modern web pages?

Comes with them, but only for legacy media. Outside of my NAS I haven’t bought a new sata drive in probably 10 years. And I haven’t touched my onboard sata ports in 5.

The fact that they’re still there impresses me at this point. But their numbers are slowly dwindling. Sata is usually the first thing that gets dropped when you need more pcie lanes. And even then most boards only have 4 at this point. They’re switching back to those god awful vertical ports which tells you all you need to know about their priority.

Ruh roh, I just installed that on my main work machine today. I’ve had 7462 installed on my fucking around laptop for 2 days no problem.

I guess the key is it has to be the same version of electron in the back end. If they change too much of it then how much memory can be shared?

So I believe the Pi 4 was the 1st to have an actual ethernet controller and not just having essentially a built in USB to ethernet adapter so bandwidth to your HDDs/ethernet shouldn’t be a problem.

Streaming directly off of the pi should be tolerable. A bit slower than a full fat computer with tons of ram for caching and CPU power to buffer things. But fine. There’s some quirks with usb connected HDDs that makes them a bit slower than they should (still in 2025 UASP isn’t a given somehow) But streaming ultimately doesn’t need that much bandwidth.

What’s going to be unbearable is transcoding. If you’re connecting some shitty ass smart TV that only understands like H264 and your videos are 265 then that has to get converted, and that SUCKS. Plex by default also likes to play videos at a lower bitrate sometimes, which means transcoding.

There’s also other weird quirks to look out for. Like someone else was (I think) doing exactly what you wanted to do, but no matter what the experience was unbearable. Apparently LVM was somehow too much compute for the pi to handle, and as soon as they switched to raw EXT4 they could stream perfectly fine. I don’t remember why this was a problem, but it’s just kind of a reminder of how weak these devices actually are compared to “full” computers.

HBAs are cheap, IPMI isn’t at all needed under normal uses cases, and ECC is way overkill.

For most people a halfway decent PC that isn’t failing is plenty.

For backups it will be fine. Same for media storage. But if you want media streaming from the device (like plex) then you’ll want something better.

The GTX 480 is efficient by modern standards. If Nvidia could make a cooler that could handle 600 watts in 2010 you can bet your sweet ass that GPU would have used a lot more power.

Well that and if 1000 watt power supplies were common back then.