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And at least 50% of Chinese households.

Yeah, some low quality LED and florescent sources have really nasty gaps in their emission spectra. Things will just look weirdly off under…

If CRI isn't mentioned, it's probably not great. Though having read the noobs guide the other day, CRI isn't a good indicator when it comes…

> Battery life is really the big thing that im worried about getting a refurb laptop. Or buy a replacement battery for ~$70

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/raspberry-pi-5-nas/ I've never tried these SATA expansion cards though. I have used Raxda/RockPi SBCs before,…

Chromebooks are generally low-quality POS machines aimed at primary school kids. The i5 recommendation already indicates that it's well…

> Not sure what anyone would use a 50mm for aside from professionals. That was focal distance that was pretty much the standard for…

> But that was my point. **You can run 2 DNS servers**, a HomeAssistant server, OctoPrint or whatever you want on the same desktop. Whaaa?…

That cost more than the compute box in the deal. And then you're using a 1TB SSD as a NAS boot drive, so 98% of the SSD and 75% of the RAM…

Zeros are great for Pihole. They take no space, the only cabling they need is the single USB cable for power. I used to have a couple at…

You could slap a privacy screen over the laptop. 3M make them, they stop side viewing but also darken the screen. Though the more obvious…

> I bought this charger recently, just a heads up that it heats up to 50°C at a load of around 35W (powering my Steam Deck OLED + a 13"…

Not as TP, but maybe to wax the crack.

Yes, these are PCs. Del or an F key gets you into BIOS. SSD- doesn't matter. Self bought will probably be a little more guaranteed quality,…

Mate, iirc a pfSense install is pretty much hitting the Enter button 4-5 times to accept the defaults (autosensed WAN port, default LAN IP…

Is electrical tape good for anything besides purely electrical work? Seems to turn into a slimy, gummy mess with the first hint of warmer…

Yeah, wasn't just me either. I had a chat to the guys at my company who are responsible for desktop/laptop support and they hate dealing…

Consumer mesh works most the time for most the people. If you want to do anything slightly out of the ordinary (tweak channel usage, TX…

I would consider a Dell for a cheapo desktop for relatives. I would not spend any of my own money on their laptops. I went through Dell…

There are SBC options that have 4-5 SATA expansion slots. You'd probably have to design your own casing though.

Microservers were amazing (up until the last gen which went way up in price).

Have an upvote for not using the pointless spelling affectation that Bosch markets.

Worth noting that the spec sheets for business level APs show signal sensitivity it different orientations. It's not just a uniform X…

FWIW, I have used ceiling mounted APs as wall mounted, and been quite happy with the results. I know that they're really designed for a…

I regard *all* cameras as untrustworthy, whether by design or by lazy development. Hikvision had hardcoded backdoors when I first started…

Agreed, that thread is mostly pointless. But there have been major security concerns with a whole slew of manufacturers, and iirc Hikvision…

And probably zero future BIOS updates...

1TB zero redundancy NAS sounds a bit limiting.

From what I have seen, Xiaomi stuff tends to be better than Anko. Often a *lot* better. KMart is basically a Taobao outlet these days. Just…