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This seems like using VLANs would be the easiest way of doing. Leave regular LAN-traffic untagged and set interface-metric to 0, and create another interface using VLAN-tag 1 (or higher) with interface-metric 1 or higher, then run the Minecraft-server on the VLAN1-interface. Set up two LAN-interfaces on the router, configure one LAN-interface with VLAN1-tag and set it up to route traffic via WAN, then the untagged one to route traffic through the VPN-interface. Boom, all set.

If nothing else, it's quite refreshing. Can't imagine EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft or any other big name doing the same. Oh, no, they'd rather find a way to blame literally anyone else -- even the players themselves.

Mmkay.

You could place the switch downstairs, thereby still only running one long cable upstairs. As for switches: a 5-port gigabit switch costs around 20€, so not exactly a huge investment.

You can copypaste it all you like, it doesn't change anything. For one, you are confusing the UPS's VA-rating with watt-rating. Secondly, you are spouting your own, personal preferences as if they were a universal fact. They aren't.

Europe is Europe, US is US. Those tariffs apply only to US. The tariffs may affect us indirectly by manufacturers deciding to increase prices everywhere instead of just the US, but the tariffs themselves do not do anything to us directly.

Yes, you can. The PSU's rating only says how much the PSU can handle, not how much it will consume. How much the system will consume is determined by the rest of the components.

Of course you can. Your PC is not drawing full power at all times. Having a 2000W PSU with an i3 doesn't mean the PC will still consume 2000W.

It just means it's receiving power from the wall. Btw, as the description says, that UPS has AVR, ie. it's line-interactive.

I have multiple ones and they work fine. That said, I'm not running anything heavy-duty, like e.g. a gaming-rig, off of them, so I don't think that's particularly useful here. It'll say it's line-interactive or has an AVR in the specs. If it's an online-UPS, it's a more advanced version of line-active, but I doubt you'll find any online-ones in your price-range. (And no, online doesn't mean Internet-connection in this context) If there's no mention of it being line-interactive or online, then it's neither. Personally, I'd recommend getting a line-interactive one, even if it meant saving up for it.

Practically all consumer-grade UPSes use standard 12V gel-batteries that can be found in practically any well-supplied hardware-store or e.g. a shop selling automotive-parts. It's as simple as taking the old one out, checking its dimensions, voltage and capacity and buying one with the same specs. Not 100% necessary, but it may affect stability. YMMV and all that. It has nothing to do with degradation of a PSU. Only line-interactive ones have AVR. They mean the same thing.

This just goes to show you still don't have the slightest clue about what you're doing. The alpha-channel uses an 8-bit value to store the alpha of each pixel, so that's obvious why it makes the file bigger. Alas, replacing 1-bit white pixel with a 1-bit transparent pixel....does not make the file any smaller, either.

The bigger file now has an alpha-channel. That's why it's bigger.

So, a bland, uninteresting open world with bland, cookie-cutter NPCs and 99% of the map filled with cookie-cutter timewasters, plus a patch a couple of weeks after launch to include microtransactions? Mmmmm...I don't think that sounds particularly appealing.

Sure. Quite literally any gigabit unmanaged switch will do and will cost around 20€. Something like e.g. TP-Link TL-SG1005D, ZyXEL GS-105S v2 or TP-Link TL-SG105 are all perfectly fine. Just check that it is a gigabit-router, not a 10/100.

With only $100, the only meaningful upgrade you can do is look for a better used GPU.

The maximum speed you could get with a 100Mbps Ethernet is about 10MB/s. If that's enough for you, then okay. I don't live anywhere near India, so no. I have absolutely no idea what is available there or how much things cost.

Sounds like it's broken now.

I would rather have 1440p display at 60Hz than 1080p at 144Hz. Otherwise, the specs look okay, though that's just not enough information to make any good decisions.

Easy: because the Average Jane and Joe and their kids don't know any better nor do they want to know. Possibly. I don't have any personal experience with gaming-routers, so I don't know how good their easy-to-use presets actually are.

I am fully aware of what QoS is, I do not need an explanation on that. But I did. Many modern gaming-routers do have presets for games which also include setting the game up in the QoS-queues.

I'm not surprised. I did briefly give LTT Discord a try last year or something and I moderated for writing "cunt" even when I never actually wrote that anywhere. The filter is just ridiculously overzealous and I have zero interest in dealing with such an exceedingly craptastic thing and thus I am not on their Discord - channel anymore.