I didn’t see the LTE module? Is it m.2 form factor?

The laptop with a full sized mechanical keyboard on it. Oh and dual 330w power bricks.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/407225/acer-predator-21-x-review.html

Ionos.de has a €1 a month VPS

I think 1 core, 1gb ram, and 10gb.

Use either caddy or Nginx proxy manager. Both are easy to setup. Also both are dockerized.

I use Tailscale as my tunnel.

Total latency is about 70-90ms for me.

My friend has 1G/1G Internet. I have a rsync cron job backing up there 2 times a week.

It has a 8TB NVMe drive that I use bulk data backup and a 2TB os drive for VM stuff.

I have a hardware key, that’s probably secure enough. 128 bits of unique data.

I use it for alt text for photos. Mostly because I just don’t know how to describe my images.

Mostly thanks because that’s the only word I learned when I’m visiting.

obrigado, obrigada - Portuguese Bitte/Danke - Deutsch dack - Dutch Gratzi - Italian Por favor/Gracias - Spanish Takk - norge Merci - French 不好意思。/ 謝謝 - Chinese ありがとう - Japanese Oi cunt / thank ye cunt

I can play zero dawn on mine and boy did it make train rides tolerable.

RouterOS has WG built in as well as ZeroTier. RouterOS has become quite powerful lately, but make sure you have at least an ARM/ARM64 CPU for it.

All of my remote routers are running RouterOS without anything on top of it. RouterOS is powerful enough for anything I throw on it. But I am using much beefier routers, I have 2 x 5009 and a HAP AX3 which have plenty of flash and ram ro run the additional packages I need.

As for normal computers, I have it on a UPS and I backup core files to off-site areas. Additionally, I buy SSDs that have a little bit of powerloss protection.

I’ve never had issues with mini PCs but I’ve had issues with PIs. I’ve since switched to high endurance SD cards for my Pis and they’ve been rock solid. One’s actually semi exposed to the elements for about a year now without a hiccup.

With RouterOS you can still use DoH with either a self hosted list or a selected ad list. If you want to selfhost a DNS server I’d just host a Adguard Home instance on a VPS for all of your devices.

I also have 2 VPN system for my remote management on 2 separate systems. I learned that the hard way when one of my clients is 8 timezones away.

I’m using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you’d want to do that?

I personally think if you’re buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.

I’m switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

They’re made in China unfortunately.

Once again people blaming software people for hardware problems!

Number 3. I already did two degrees with it.

Just remember, the media is owned by the rich.

Stopping down doesn’t always give you sharper images. You may run into diffraction softening.

Focusing and then stopping down may shift your focal plane. Try to focus at your chosen aperture.

Try to use the electronic shutter function for astro photography. Even the shutter moving across the sensor can cause vibrations.

The 500 rule is useful for astro, but with modern higher resolution sensors, the NPF rule is better suited.

Not getting amazing astro shots? You may need to modify or buy a camera that is sensitive to Hα (Hydrogen-alpha) removing the infrared/IR filter off your camera will allow you to shoot full spectrum. Although you will need something to only allow 450 to 520nm and from 640 to 690nm into your sensor.

Sensors will always have dead or stuck pixels. You can take 10-20 black frames to try to help your image processor find and erase them.

Optical vignetting is common when you shoot wide open. Stop down 2-3 stops from your max aperture to try and remove the effect.

Shooting expired film is fine, just make sure you over expose 1 stop per decade it’s expired. So a 20 year old film, shoot 2 stops over exposed.

I can actually game one the AMD one pretty okay. Couldn’t with Intel. Battery life also increased by 30 minutes.

I understand what you mean. The way I did it was a full disk encryption as an “external drive” so the whole disk was encrypted

No, that’s absolutely true. Dynamic loads will need to be accounted for in real world examples.