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I used it only a couple years ago for someone's personal project that needed virtualization, but with a more user-friendly UI. The main failure at the time was not allowing VMs to auto-start on host computer startup. Most of the calls I got were because the PC had rebooted and the user hadn't...

I've read many places that the entry-level standalone GPUs are a suckers game already, with iGPUs beating or nearly beating them in most scenarios. The current AMD iGPU seems good enough for a lot of use cases, as seen by many of the handheld gaming consoles. The last several laptops I've had...

It might be if money isn't as much of a thing? I've seen really good performance from my rig even with the max power draw turned way down. It is certainly not performance/$, but performance/watt is reasonable, and if you do find yourself in a hurry at some point you can just turn it up. Your...

An advantage of the business grade stuff, even if you aren't a business, is that they give you the data. Antenna radiation patterns for each Ubiquiti AP. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005212927-UniFi-Network-AP-Antenna-Radiation-Patterns

I feel that they are just slowly finding ways to: 1. Make it a service 2. Collect as much data as possible

*This next bit used to be true, and probably still is, but I haven't actually researched it in a few years* The most important thing the controller does is monitor the signal strength from each device connected to WiFi and actively push devices to the access point with the strongest signal. If...

Ubiquiti can do everything, but it doesn't have to. The one I linked above just does Wifi. The one I have at home is a Dream Machine Pro. That is a dual-internet capable business-grade firewall with all the fittings, plus WiFi management, plus cameras and phones and door control and all kinds of...

If your tablet tends to not leave the workroom, then everything mentioned in following paragraphs doesn't apply. Just about any AP will do, call the second network something different from your first, connect to it, and don't worry about it. My understanding and experience is that unless the...

We are totally off topic, but to answer JTRs question, the hot water from the city is an isolated closed-loop system. You control the flow rate of it through the heat exchangers at your place to heat your own water to your desired temperature. The city hot water is supplied at 80C+ and they want...

At our place and in most of the cities in Denmark we get hot and cold water from the city. The water traditionally has been heated by burning waste, but as there is less waste these days some cities are implementing massive building-sized heat pumps to heat the water. Once the hot water reaches...

As summer approaches I've turned the PC down. GPU power limit is now 85% of stock, and CPU has a 200W power limit set in BIOS. At a friends place I used a water-water heat exchanger to use the watercooled PC to pre-warm water heading for the water heater. The reservoir didn't have to be that...

You have a password and a PIN. By default you are able to log in with the PIN. The frustrating thing for me is that people entirely forget their password a week after they set up their PC (because they never have to use it), then when I need the actual password for admin-type stuff (or even just...

Wifi6E is so much faster (not just speed, but responsiveness) than anything before, and 7 is technically out now. Just remember that the range on 6E is absolutely terrible. If I get more than 5m from my AP with only one wall in between it drops to Wifi 6 and the difference is noticeable.

My laptop did exactly that after a recent update. After the reboot it presented me with the "create an online account" window. Fortunately there was a "no" button that, after showing a bunch of warnings, allowed me to continue.

That one has a DRAM cache, so should be fine.