This is why you never buy any device that uses the cloud unless there is an option to self host.

MKVToolNix will work even if the file is not MKV. It will just remux it to MKV.

I put a cheap pair of wire cutters in the front pocket of the suitcase to cut the zip tie off with.

I just use a zip tie. It keeps the bag shut and it’s obvious if they open it. Of course they could potentially replace it with an identical zip tie. You can get security seals that are serial numbered if you want to protect against that.

Yes, Wine doesn’t support USB passthrough. You would need a VM for that.

Software running in Wine is not accessing your mouse or keyboard directly, so it doesn’t matter how they are connected as long as they work in Linux.

Wine doesn’t support USB. Unless the peripheral connects over a serial or parallel port, you will have to use a virtual machine.

Some random old printer is much more likely to be plug and play on Linux these days than it is on windows.

It would be nice if they would make one with 4 or more LAN ports with at least one of them 2.5G and no WiFi. I need multiple access points to get enough coverage. The built in WiFi is useless to me since it won’t integrate nicely with Unifi.

You can put a separate Wine prefix for each game on your NAS and use a launcher like Lutris to run the games. You can share the Wine prefix between multiple computers. Newer games that require a SSD probably won’t work well over the network though.

It works fine with my AMD GPU. Good luck with NVIDIA though.

The private DNS function is also very useful if you manually set it to an ad blocking DNS server.

When are they going to learn that solar roads are never going to be practical?

I wouldn’t really trust Intel CPUs after the degradation issues they were having. It will take a while to prove that it’s been fixed.

I think most people wouldn’t recognize it as a real Linux distro just like android and chromeos.

Of course that all falls apart if the display doesn’t use a normal subpixel layout. OLED displays usually have an unsupported subpixel layout. Some of them even have a white subpixel that’s not controllable by the computer, which makes subpixel anti-aliasing impossible.

I would like RS-232 and RS-485 modules and a full size SD card reader would be nice too. It’s probably something I would end up building myself if I get a Framework laptop.

Edit: It looks like they have an SD card module now, nice.

That’s the way to do it. I just wish Framework had a better selection of modules available and had more module bays on their laptops.

Almost everything I have has a USB A or a DE-9 plug. I don’t have a single peripheral that plugs into a USB C port. I don’t want to deal with dongles and I’m certainly not going to replace my perfectly good hardware.

You could assume 1080p or higher for desktops, but 1366x768 and 1440x900 are still fairly common on laptops. Not everyone is running brand new hardware. Many people put Linux on their old laptops so they can continue using them. Higher resolutions screens with display scaling are also common on laptops.