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I'm looking to build a Truenas host which runs a much of containers using a mini-itx board and CPU i have presently in a bigger case. Looking for recommendations on basic case with the following requirements Ultra clean and basic. not loads of front IO don't need it. Preferably just one USB and power button Small as absolutely possible while accommodating at least 1 x 3.5 HDD (2 would be bonus) internal or external PSU Black preferred or can be painted black cheap. under $100 not an insane price for a basic case Thanks.

What ever happened to Brian the electrician?

I'm considering a steam deck but want to also look at alternatives. Has LTT reviewed any and have any suggestions for an alternative?

Looks good but too expensive. Australia slaps that many taxes something cheap in one country becomes quite expensive.

I'm about to purchase my first 3D printer. I don't like the fiddling with resin printers as a first printer so going with filament. Ideally it would be at least medium quality prints and not more than a couple hundred dollars. I'll spend more when I'm more confident in their use. Any recommendations?

Yeh your probably right.

I need to buy a bunch of SD Cards and don't want to spend too much as they will be abused and probably lost by kids. I'm thinking I'll grab a few from AliExpress but don't want to get ripped of with fake ones. Has anyone ordered SD cards of 256 or 512 gb from AliExpress and where not shipped fakes?

I really hate how google force yo to have an account (google account or non google) to keep a playlist, add comments etc. and when I go from YouTube to Google to search it keeps me logged in as that same account. To make it worse I don't want google to keep my web activity but if I turn it off my stupid Google Home stops working because they very conveniently made it a requirement. Any way i can work in YouTube logged in but in Google search no logged in?

To say I'm a newb to soldering would be an understatement. I'm hoping someone can confirm my suspicions. in short I ripped a wire from a PCB and it took the pad with it. Looking at the PCB I believe the trace the pad was connected to is shared by 3 other solder points. 1. Looking at the picture you can clearly see the missing pad, is the section circled in red all one trace? 2. Can I just then simply solder the wire to one of these other solder points (A, B, C)

Update to my own post, NordVPN has one.

I have been using the Free ProtonVPN service recently. One of the features I like is they have an API that can query endpoint load and speeds. I built a script in my router that retrieve the status of all the endpoints via API and picks the fastest responding and configured the VPN to that endpoint and put that on a schedule to run every do often. API for Proton if anyone is interested (https://api.protonmail.ch/vpn/logicals) I'm now considering paying for the full service but before I commit to Proton I'm trying to find out if any other VPN providers have a similar API so I have some choices rather than being tied to proton. Anyone have any idea if other VPN providers have a similar API?

Did a DDU and reapplied the Windows 11 drivers. Back to being solid as a rock and frame rates are about what I'd expect.

Maybe i've been living under a rock but is there some kind of issue with Radeon Drivers and Win 11 these days? I installed Win11 a few weeks back during which time it install the Microsoft driver. I didn't notice as my system seemed very stable all things considered. Then I noted the MS driver so uninstalled it and installed latest Radeon drivers and all hell has broken loose. Blue screens, laggy graphics, regular hands etc. I've gone back to the MS driver and will see but is this a known issue and if so any fix as yet?

It's a chinese knock odd mini-its board. My case only takes mini-itx and while I didn't want to do a major upgrade I also refused to pay over $300 for a LGA 1150 mini-itx motherboard so I got this one. As I said it's got an nvme m.2 slot and i plugged in my sata m.2 ssd but not detected in bios. I{m assuming the nvme slot works but I dont have a nvme ssd to test with.

I recently upgraded a few parts in an old PC including the motherboard. This motherboard has a m.2 nvme slot however I realized that I only have space m.2 sata ssd's. Simply plugging it in did get recognized as expected. Is there convertors available to use a m.2 sata in a m.2 nvme slot?