This is a community for people who have home servers. 100M is fine for a couple people just web browsing, but that’s not the topic of this discussion.

I run 10G between my desktop and my server because I can easily saturate a 1G connection doing a simple file transfer.

If your craptop is using an HDD instead of an SSD, replacing it with an SSD would be a cheap upgrade you could do that would make a massive improvement.

Wait until you learn about micro ops and processor internals. That somebody isn’t as wrong as you think.

Because mainstream porn sites are blocked or require age verification in my state. Other good reasons are to avoid some issues when torrenting things or to “be” in another country to get around Netflix and other streaming service region blocks.

Privacy and avoiding man in the middle is kinda bullshit. Nearly all websites use TLS, so mitm isn’t possible. And it’s only privacy from your ISP.

I agree with the people suggesting Onshape.

But if you like programming, OpenSCAD can be really interesting.

Last time I tried it, the prebuilts packages didn’t work, and the version I built from source couldn’t recognize any graphics or video outputs to use 😞

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To be fair to 4, cell phones are miraculous.

It’s off site, but hackaday.com is great for (mostly) electronics and computer tech articles.

That’s a surname 😞

Sdf prematurely updated their Lemmy instance to an unstable version, and the apps don’t have support yet. I made an account on another instance in the mean time (and maybe forever depending on how SDF handles this).