Razor Blade

For many use cases, a VPN should be sufficient to protect your browsing privacy...are you...not welcome on the network you're trying to join or something?

Ordering a pair of X5680s for a YDJK3 motherboard

FreeNAS doesn't use the IronWolf Health feature of the drive (which is IMO one of the most attractive features of IronWolf and is only available on 4TB models and above source:https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf/) so really any drive that is meant to be in an array would work with FreeNAS...it doesn't have to be IronWolf.

Beginner distros of linux... well the Debian variety would be pretty good start since there are instructions and tutorials literally everywhere for anything you can imagine... Ubuntu MATE (as stated above) is a great distro since it is so popular. Another one would be Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop (as long as the computer can handle it) since it has a feel kind of similar to windows. I started an elderly neighbor on Linux mint after having a lot of problems with adware, malware, and Windows updates breaking everything... He picked up mint cinnamon surprisingly fast! I did a few housekeeping things for "behind the scenes" management like installing ad blockers, adding update commands to run with a cron job, and locking down the account by creating a separate admin account. Recently I moved him over to a more minimal distro after he got used to mint. I couldn't help myself...I upgraded his laptop to 8GB of RAM and an SSD... To see his complete amazement with the sub 30 second cold boot to desktop time on an older laptop made it worth every penny to me.

So the only feature are green LEDs and it burns the logo in bread? What about overclocking it?

I just like the G and B...can I buy it without the R? Because R seems to always indicates a problem for me...

There are many...many...many videos on YouTube about repairing game boy cartridges. Here are just a couple for convenience. Pick up a can of deoxIT (just the red and black can will work) using the spray and a toothbrush, it should help clean that corrosion off.

Farm animals can carry disease (such as E. coli). If you're around them a lot you likely would fare way better then someone who lives a sterilized indoor HEPA filtered life. But all you can do now is to monitor for symptoms.

IMO the tech that researches and asks how to do something he doesn't know how to do is way better than a tech who's pride greatly exceeds his competence.

I have an old P4 laptop with XP on it somewhere...

Same... when I ran my R7000 as a primary router, I used a laptop cooler as well (though plugged into the wall). I now use mine as an AP for my PFsense router and there is almost no detectable heat.

I have not personally seen the ads for the featured product. However from description in the video, it is just a predatory product designed to take advantage of the tech illiterate. Because for the cost of a USB stick, you too can have an "Xtra-PC" My question is though... what if Grandma isn't able to boot from USB without a boot priority change? Maybe she could just google it and a Microsoft certified tech could remote into her PC to remove the hackers causing the problem for a lifetime subscription fee of $599? I am incredibly curious exactly how that little USB stick is configured... Does it have a Cron job to auto update? Does Grandma have root privileges? Can the Grandson/Granddaughter configure the USB stick so as not to grant Grandma ultimate power to destroy her computer again? Properly locked down, Linux is GREAT for Grandma. Even if it were Debin based... I would much rather get the call of "I can't install this because it keeps asking for a password" than the call "I already paid the man from Microsoft but now my computer is asking for a password when I turn it on"

Seems like many companies are ditching the USB flash drive "network storage" due to security concerns. IMO good riddance to it. An off the shelf consumer router USB port isn't going to come close to the performance of even the cheapest NAS out there. Unless you're experiencing performance issues on your internet connection, I would say put your money toward a NAS instead. It will be more secure and way more versatile.