They didn’t make it out of brominated ABS, so it won’t turn yellow with age though.

FCC emission requirements are very lax below 30MHz, so something can pass FCC part 15 yet still jam the entire HF band.

There’s a lot of stuff that you can’t even buy now.

Wireless power sounds like and RFI nightmare. It will never match the efficiency of a cable either.

They can’t see much through the electrical tape over the lens.

They should just remove the DRM from all streaming services. The fact that new TV shows can be downloaded within minutes of airing is a good indicator that it doesn’t work for its intended purpose. It just makes me find another source since I can’t watch them using my preferred browser and operating system.

If find the missed call notifications to be very helpful. I never remember to check my phone, but I’m on the computer all the time. I also like the ability to remote control the music player from my phone since the computer is hooked up to an amplifier with speakers in multiple rooms.

Every single time the land line ISPs have gotten money for rural broadband, they use it for something else and don’t build anything. Starlink actually built a network that works. Many places have gotten decent 5G home internet too.

I have been promised fiber for over a decade yet the only wired connection available is a DSL network that’s been so poorly maintained that it barely even functions.

My dynamic IPv6 prefix hasn’t changed in a couple of years. It only changed because I reset the router config and that changed my DUID. That’s good enough for everything I host. I don’t even bother with dynamic DNS anymore.

I wouldn’t bother with trying to host an email server from a residential connection though. Even if you can get your ISP to open port 25 for you, many email servers won’t accept mail from residential IP addresses.

Streaming sites go down all the time and the quality is usually terrible. Downloading the same stuff every time you want to watch it is just wasting the seeders bandwidth.

If you need IPv6, you can get a free tunnel from Hurricane Electric. They will give you a /48 if you request it. I used it for years since my old ISP didn’t have IPv6. I am close to one of their servers, so the latency was very low.

If you only have one slot, you can always put the old drive in a USB4 enclosure and turn it into a really fast flash drive.

Widevine L3 can be screen captured on Linux. Widevine L1 only plays on certain “trusted” hardware and can’t be screen captured.

I unplug the switching power supplies when I’m not using them because I don’t want to listen to the RFI that they produce.

Electrolytic capacitors wear out due to age whether they are used or not. Heat makes them wear out significantly faster. If the power supply is not under load, it shouldn’t be producing any noticeable amount of heat.

I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.

Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.

They could have just used normal 8 pin connectors in that case.

Almost every scam email I get comes from a gmail address. If a business is not sending emails from their own domain, I automatically assume it’s a scam.

Is your ISP using CGNAT? If so, your IP address is likely shared with dozens of other people. Each user gets a different set of ports and your ISP knows which ports each person is using so they can send the nasty letter to the correct person.

It is being pushed beyond its ratings, so there’s no guarantees that it will work. There’s no harm in trying Cat5e at higher speeds if it’s already installed, but don’t install it with the intention of using it at more than 2.5G.