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I have my phone (Nokia 7 Plus) paired with my desktop machine (which runs the latest KDE Neon) via Bluetooth. I can use the media controls on the desktop to control the YouTube app (and I presume others such VLC) on the phone and I can hear the audio as it is routed from the phone to the desktop...

IdiotInCharge Yeah, that's the main issue with powerline - it's impossible to deploy into a consistent environment, unlike Ethernet. In that regard it's got more in common with WiFi than with any wired networking technology. Re; TP-Link portal, I'd be much more inclined to run something...

IdiotInCharge I found this (I'm with you on the "trust" part) and this . Also this and this. @thread Since I already have a pair of WiFi Powerline Adapters I may just buy another pair for the perimeter network. Before anyone says anything, I'm well aware that PLAs are held in contempt on...

Thank you for this, now I have a better understanding of the situation. :) What's so special about BSD that the situation is so poor compared to Linux? Yeah I've seen those. Are there any of those kinds of distros which are AP-only and don't have all the extra crap (modem support, VPN etc)...

@thread Many thanks for the replies. :) Apologies for the large image but I can't get spoiler tags to work. Anyway, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about (top right). Is that an mPCIe slot that the WiFi card is plugged into? EDIT: I just noticed that to the right of the device it...

I'm planning out a pfSense router and I am aware that pfSense is picky about WiFi hardware and best supports Atheros chipsets. If I buy a motherboard whose built-in WiFi is Realtek or some other not-so-well-supported/unsupported brand, can I remove the WiFi module and swap in a different one...

@thread Many thanks for all of the replies. :) I ended up going with a Gigabyte H370N WiFi (won't be using the WiFi part, obviously) since it supports dual Intel NICs, It also supports dual M.2 SSDs, so I can boot from one and use the other as a cache drive. Nobu Dongles are nice (I have one...

I am in the process of speccing out a small, high-density virtualisation and NAS server based around a mini-ITX motherboard. I would like to use something based around AM4 but I would also like dual NICs if possible. Does anyone here know of such a board which ticks all of these boxes? Many...

Background My workstation serves as a VirtualBox host for several Linux desktop VMs. The workstation has a Samsung 970 Pro as its boot device, with two Samsung 850 EVOs as a RAID 0 scratch drive. I have an external drive (two 1TB mechanicals in RAID 1) connected to the host which exposes its...

So hold on...USB 3.0 and 3.1 Gen 1 are 5Gb/s and are identical (to all intents and purposes) and USB 3.1 Gen 2 is 10Gb/s. Now we have USB 3.2 Gen 1 which is also 5Gb/s, 3.2 Gen 2 which is 10Gb/s and 3.2 Gen 2x2 which is 20Gb/s? 3.2 is new so how can there be Gen 1 and Gen 2 already? These...

OK, this has just happened. I have two Samsung 850 EVO 1TB drives in RAID 0. I needed to reboot the machine and when it came backup I noticed this RAID 0 didn't restart. Using mdadm -E yielded "mdadm: No md superblock detected" on both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. I've trawled the search engines...

x509 I don't mind at all. :D I did a quick search on eBay and it yielded these results. :)

That's actually a good idea: I never remember those small devices. :) Definitely worth a look. Thanks! :D

I currently have a Linux VM running on an old iMac for print server duty. The iMac is actually quite power hungry and since it's too old for iOS development, I would like to decommission it. That being said, I now need something else to handle print server duty. I've see a couple of wireless...

Well, even if the hardware is slightly different, the specs (at least according to NVIDIA's website) are identical in terms of GPU, RAM and clocks. Interesting that the Titan RTX has 2x 8-pin PCIe though; maybe they left that as a provision for the more well-heeled gamers who might want to...