I’ve got an Acer Aspire from 2008 running mint on an Intel Atom and 1 GB memory (might be 2, I forget). It is slow but very usable except for video and such.

This is sort of the plot of Children of Time

Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn’t all laggy

Also the miniseries with Kenneth Branagh is pretty good. Then for counterpoint watch The Last Place on Earth

Yeah you usually can. LibreOffice works fine for most things. Some classes need things like Solid works that only run on Windows, and the remote testing software can be a nightmare. You might get an O365 license as part of your enrollment but doubt you really need it.

Protip; learn how to typeset your papers in something like LyX and integrate Zotero for citation management. The typesetting usually got me a few extra points alone.

Speed Queen is still making dumb albeit electronic models. Bit pricey but solid. Or get yourself an old one off Craigslist and call someone to refurb it. Those will often outlast anything else.

Anyone pick up any of those cheap Quanshen radios to listen to ATC traffic?

TNG started in 87. Not at all inconceivable that it was sitting in a closet somewhere.

In Linux you just download, extract, and change the symlink. It is really easy.

Really only if you’re running your own email server. Otherwise as far as I know dynamic DNS fills the need.
You aren’t in any more risk either way.

Sounds like maybe you want to look into pfsense to do traffic filtering. Highly recommend.

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I didn’t think 1 was bad once I got used to it. It is just really different.

Literally saw 25% to 50% range the other day

No, POE. Just the round black ones, I forget the model.

The only gotcha I can think of is the 4k bandwidth, better make sure you can handle more than one camera on your network.

Not parent, but Zoneminder locally with the zmninja app works pretty well. VPN allows remote access, so it is slightly complicated but not too bad.

Reolink and Zoneminder has been working fine. Put the cameras in a vlan, block their access except to the ZM server, you can use any IP camera.