2FA

We use some software at work that by default prompts users to link a phone number as their 2FA when they finish setting up their account. In reality it supports authenticators, you just have to enable that after creating your account. We have some other software that is just starting to implement and require 2FA which supports both email and phone numbers currently with support for tokens and authenticators coming in future updates since they only just added 2FA this year. Accounting industry by the way and all the software sucks in their own way.

5G version is identical except for the 5G antenna, if anything it would use more power. Going from 95% to 81% after 4.5 hours with a little screen time very much seems normal to me. What was your previous phone?

Uhh, that seems like fairly normal battery usage and seems to match up with the battery life in this article https://www.droid-life.com/2020/10/15/google-pixel-pixel-4a-5g-battery-life-how-good/

That came from a satire anime news site, unfortunately not real.

FTFY. Only the 192.168.0.0/16 space is private (not counting 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/12). Pedantic, I know.

Mullvad is pretty good, no personal information unless you use a payment method tied to you but you can straight up mail them money without a return address and of course cryptocurrencies.

The poster of this blog stated in the comments he got 16GB working. https://poyu.co.uk/2018/05/22/upgrading-the-cpu-in-the-rs3412rpxs/ No idea on particular SKUs for RAM that would work but probably run of the mill 1333/1600 ECC would work.

It's been their enterprise version for a long time now. TrueNAS Core is pretty much FreeNAS 11 with more features. It's at RC1 now which iX has stated the quality is akin to the full release quality of previous versions so it's pretty safe to upgrade to. LawrenceSystems on YT has a video on the features here: And on the RC1 here: Also actually on topic, another utility to test pool speed is fio. Jim Salter has an article on it to test speeds https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/how-fast-are-your-disks-find-out-the-open-source-way-with-fio/

They're combining the FreeNAS/TrueNAS codebase into TrueNAS Core. Article discussing since I can't find a decent iX page about it https://www.servethehome.com/freenas-is-dead-long-live-truenas-core/

Went looking through the manual for it and the only other option I can think of would be turning secure boot in the advanced settings somewhere.

Sounds like the CMOS battery is dead or missing if it's not saving settings. If you go the main Boot options menu what does it show? Does the USB drive even show in the BIOS as a bootable option?