They will be very expensive and they don’t even supply enough power to run a digital watch.

That idle power consumption doesn’t seem right. That’s less than a Raspberry Pi.

As long as the PC isn’t being connected to the internet, there’s no reason you can’t just keep running an old kernel.

I used to run RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 1 and it was able to play most of the SNES games I tried. Of course that was with no shaders or upscaling.

VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.

They aren’t trying, they already did it. ATSC 3 broadcasts are encrypted in a lot of cities in the US. The FCC should have never allowed that.

Just don’t allow the students to have their phones when taking tests. They could be left in another room out of bluetooth range or be put in a faraday cage to block the bluetooth signals.

What do you expect when the AI is trained on reddit posts?

A lot of distros disable the functions of the magic sysrq key for security reasons. If it’s enabled, it should work as long as the system is still capable of reading keyboard inputs.

There’s also the Belling-Lee connector. It’s been around since 1922 and is still commonly used for radio and TV antennas in Europe.

You could get a Hetzner storage box. They have unlimited traffic, but only allow 10 simultaneous connections.

The Liberation fonts are open source and licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

One of the better free options is FreeDNS, but you are limited to 5 records.

If you want your own domain, I would suggest Porkbun. They have an API that can be used for dynamic DNS.

You shouldn’t have any issues with MakeMKV and normal blurays. 4K blurays can only be ripped with certain drives and they need custom firmware.

Gnome Disk Utility lets you manage the mount points from a GUI. There are probably other programs that can do it too.

You can use stunnel to make your VPN look like HTTPS.

Most ISPs have remote access to their modems. You should use your own if possible. If you can’t, then put it in bridge mode and connect your own router to it.

If you bought the game, all you would have to do is click install and Steam would have done all of the setup for you. If you pirate, then you have to do that work yourself. It’s not particularly difficult, but it takes more than just double clicking on an exe file.

If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.

There is ddccontrol and ddcutil for controlling desktop monitors. There is also the ddcci-driver which adds a device to /sys/class/backlight so you can use programs that would normally be used for controlling a laptop backlight.