Recent content by kydsid

Yes it will damage the computer. Your phone too. And tv and anything with a microprocessor which is well everything but my toilet these days. Best to stop smoking. Outdoors no good either, might harm neighbors computer and be sued for damages

I sit here ironically reading this thread as I clean a copy of Back to the Future in 4k to rip to my plex library. All while cotemplating buying a new pioneer drive that will handle 3 layer discs better and know the death of media is due to the convenience of streaming. Even 50 years ago there...

The most reliable one I know of is my UPS for my home server. Damn thing trips and alarms that the power is out every single time the laser printer starts cause they are on the same circuit. Not much help for you perhaps. Maybe HomeAssistant monitoring the status of a Kasa or other smart plug...

I think I'm gonna move to sophos

I haven't paid all that much attention. I believe HP has been more restrictive with recent models. I can tell you from experience it really isn't a side grade. Them old 325s are way better than nearly any other ac AP out there. Rock of Gibraltar stable and performant. They really aren't...

Omada, older Aruba are my go to. You can get solid Aruba IAP325s (the ones that don't need a controller) for like $20 on ebay.

youtube dl is probably the best and easiest to get MP3 from YT. all you need is the link, check a couple boxes and it downloads. https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material

I'll try to take a stab at this, though you seem stuck in the mud. So you bought the software, so what?, I bought a 14.4 kbps modem, doesn't mean I still use it. Nero was outdated for ripping music 15+ years ago, and as far as I know it still is out of date for that purpose. dbPoweramp, EAC and...

usually, just hoops, mostly formating and custom bios issues. there is also connectors, like u.3, where you usually need adapters unless you are running a enterprise board as well. I had some drives a bit back that just refused to work, I think they had been separated from what should have been...

cheap 10tb SSD, where? I always miss the good ones, :D

That is a bit on the spendy side for used ent gear. I just paid $130 for 3TB nvme's. I'd suggest looking around for options and reading up on how to do the reformats along with other specific issues with used ent gear. 520 sectors is just one reason used gear may not work in windows, there are...

Probably formatted in 520 sectors. What's the deal price per TB. There are other options usually in used gear. I've got pcie nvme in my win box that works great.

That was what made the former model attractive, no support, but ongoing definition updates for filtering/IPS, new features, bug fixes etc for $50/year

$540 for 25 hosts, I'd need a license for 50, which is $1300/year

Well the party is over for Home use Next Gen Firewall from Untangle, now Arista. Got email today that licenses will not be renewed for the Home version which was $50 a year. Got a lot of use out of it, still will as current license goes till March 2027. Can't think of anything besides ZenArmor...