Or self driving cars.

There’s always the option of using computer monitors or projectors.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.

They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.

If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.

It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.

Yes, a used PC can work great for a home server. Just don’t go too old or it will be power hungry. Obviously you will want one with an integrated GPU to save power too. If you want to run jellyfin, make sure it supports hardware video encoding, preferably AV1 or H.265.

Any Japanese made surround sound receiver and speakers than you can pick up from a thrift store or craigslist will sound way better than the modern junk. It will have a big, heavy power transformer and linear amplifiers. There will be no internet connected spyware either. If you find one from the 90’s, it will likely have a phono preamp for your record player too.

OCR makes a lot of mistakes, so unless someone bothered to go through and correct them, it’s only really useful for searching for keywords.

Zonemider is accessed through a web interface. Just enable HTTPS and put a lets encrypt certificate on the web server. Of course if you don’t have a publicly accessible IP address, things get more complicated since you will need a VPN or some sort of tunnel.

You could install ZoneMinder and set it up with your webcam. It will do recording and basic motion detection. You don’t have to mess with any docker stuff, it just needs a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to access it from a phone, I would suggest using the zmNinja app since the web UI sucks on mobile.

Some actual CCTV IP cameras would be better than a webcam if you can still find any that provide an RTSP stream and don’t require any of that cloud crap.

I didn’t even know it was still around. I stopped using it when microsoft bought it.

Use it for a firewall / router, but don’t bother with WiFi. There are no antenna connectors, so it probably doesn’t have a card installed and normal WiFi cards make terrible access points anyways.

If you want to use OPNsense, make sure the NICs are supported. If it has Realtek NICs, you will probably have to use a Linux based firewall.

You know not to trust that site with any more information. Once the alias is deleted, anything sent to it will result in a delivery failure and you won’t get any more spam from anyone they sold that address to.

If your mail server supports aliases, you can make one for each site you sign up for. Then if you start getting a bunch of spam, you can delete the alias and you will know which site sold your information.

Some TLDs that are well known for spam get blocked. If you stick with a .com, you will usually be fine if you are using a decent mail server.

A used SAS card can be found on ebay for $20-$30. You just need a PC with an open 8 lane PCIe slot and a few drive bays. An older 6gbps card is fine for a few mechanical hard drives.

Is your GPU reducing the VRAM frequency when it’s idle?

If the vertical timing is different between the monitors, the VRAM will have to run at maximum speed all the time and that can add 20 watts or more to your idle power consumption.

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it’s input shouldn’t exist.

That’s what happens when you have a 25 year old protocol and try to maintain backwards compatibility through all of the versions.

Uncompressed 16 bit 48KHz stereo is 1536 kbps, which is just slightly higher than what bluetooth 5 is capable of.