It’s fairly minimal compared to the amount of microplastics that go down the drain every time someone washes a load of laundry made from synthetic fibers. At least PLA dust will break down a bit faster than many of the other microplastics.

Normal DVDs are not good for archival. Cheap ones can degrade in less than 10 years. You want to get the M-disc ones for long term storage.

DC pass through is only needed if you’re powering something over the coax like a pre amp or a remote coax switch.

I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

Solar panels are already quite cheap. What we need is much cheaper grid forming inverters so we can stop destabilizing the grid with solar.

There’s a browser addon that lets you disable auto translation.

The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don’t use more than about 75% of it’s rated output.

I haven’t had any issues with my RX 6700 XT. It works great for games and CAD. I’ve never gotten the video encoding working though. I think it needs the proprietary drivers.

My newest PC only supports PCIe 3.0. My SSDs are still plenty fast, at least until they start thermal throttling.

I used packet writing for a while when I got my first DVD-RW drive. A few years later, multi gigabyte flash drives became affordable and there was no need to mess with DVD-RWs anymore.

Here: https://files.catbox.moe/pg3cmp.csv

It’s an important thing to have in an emergency. The remaining cell towers will probably be overloaded, but you will likely still be able to hear an FM broadcast station to find out if you need to evacuate and where to go.

Here is the list of affected extensions.

I don’t think a mobile version would be practical, they don’t have enough processing power. Blender needs a high end PC.

If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it’s not low end.

Yeah, but it can’t run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.

Maybe it could also have something to do with people not wanting AI rammed down their throats on every device, website and program they use.

Use your own modem and router so your ISP doesn’t have access to it.

Down at the bottom of the network tab, it will tell you the total size.

The first column is the total size of the page, the second is how much was actually downloaded. That will be smaller if the web server uses compression or if any of the files are already cached.

I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.