The Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard has two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots running x16/x16 and two running x4/x4. A mid range GPU will be fine. That’s still twice the bandwidth you get with an external GPU on Thunderbolt. NVMe drives will work fine as well. The speed will be limited, but they will still be much faster than SATA.
A set of DDR5 RAM now costs nearly as much as a whole PC did a year ago. It’s still worth upgrading the GPU and getting more use out of an older machine. DDR3 RAM is still affordable. There are also M.2 to PCIe adapters if you want a modern SSD, you just can’t use it as a boot drive. If you’re running Linux, you can put everything except /boot on the NVMe SSD.
As long as you didn’t cheap out on the paste, it shouldn’t be fully hardened yet. Some alcohol should clean it off without too much effort.
We shouldn’t even need video. It’s just a waste of bandwidth unless you are showing some slides for a presentation or something.
You can use LibreOffice Draw to edit a PDF. It can actually delete text and images from the PDF. You do need to install all of the fonts that the PDF uses before editing it or they will be replaced with what you do have. That will probably mess up the layout if the replacement fonts are not compatible with the originals.
Yes, except now you can just use an AI to unpixelate something without doing all that work. It’s even more effective on video than with a still picture.
When redacting something make sure you’re not accidentally making it semi transparent. Use a box fill or hard edge brush with the opacity set to 100%. I’ve seen a lot of pictures posted where someone scribbles over the info with a soft edge brush and you can still see through it if you adjust the contrast.
Hydrogen would be fine as long as it’s not flying above an inhabited area. Helium supplies are limited.
I would recommend installing Heroic Launcher too. It works good for GoG, Epic & Amazon games.
Firefox has had one hidden away in about:config since they started adding AI. Are they going to put it in the settings page now?
You can put Linux on the computer and customize it however you want. If you don’t want a task bar, you don’t have to have one. You can move it where ever you want, adjust the size or even have multiple task bars on each monitor.
Those displays are made to be very bright and usually have a lot of backlight bleed.
There is a PipeWire module for ASHA. It looks like it has issues with a lot of devices though.
My windows XP install kept breaking and I got tired of fixing it, so I tried Linux and never went back.
Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.
If that’s the case, then you should return the TV if you can or replace the WiFi antenna with a 50 ohm resistor.
That’s only an issue if someone’s still running an open network near you.
If you use the web UI, you can adjust the zoom in your browser.
Try a different cable too.
That can be done with Apt-Cacher NG. It’s a proxy server that caches .deb packages. It really speeds up updates if you have multiple computers that are using the same packages.