Because you’re not supposed to.

We’ve been raised in an individualist society.

Radiowaves are not free real estate. Every country has their own laws on what frequencies you’re allowed to use for what.

2.4ghz frequencies are basically as unregulated as they can get in the US, so that’s why wifi used that for the longest time. I’m not sure what devices used 5ghz before, but they took that frequency for wifi. You have to fight for every mhz you can get in radio waves.

Here’s the wiki article talking a bit about this. I’ve never heard of like 3.6ghz wifi so that’s interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Operational_principles%3A~%3Atext=some+cases+severely.-%2CWaveband%2C-[edit]

Yeah… It’s still going so fuck it.

To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.

They can, they’re called smart thermostats. They need to know the outside and inside temp and honestly the easiest way to do that is to just connect them to the internet. Plus they’re even better when they know it’s going to be cold all day vs cold for half the day, then the sun comes out and is really hot the second half.

Usually there’s a button right next to the numbers or start button that’s for cook power.

It’s only a one time thing, it doesn’t save either.

Secure boot has been a requirement for like 10+ years now. I think windows 8 was when they required it on all new computers. You could turn it off if you really wanted and I think it would still work, but why would you? Linux has played well with it for almost as long.

That’s a ruggedized phone, most people don’t want a phone that’s twice as thick and doesn’t provide anywhere near twice the battery.

Doesn’t memory training only happen once when you first boot the machine (or reset bios).

I mean having a lot of ram will take a long time to post, but that’s not unique to DDR5. My server is DDR4 with 64 gigs of ram and with it’s original CPU it took ages for the post to finish.

That’s vendor specific. I’ve never had a phone that supports that.

Also there few times I’ve tried it went even worse than trying to use volume and power.

But like… that’s because most of the time it’s nationalism.

But the thing is America is supposed to be all about “Freedom”

Freedom is nationalism to Americans

Android has a lot more free apps with ads, while on iOS there’s a lot more “gimme $2” apps. It’s a trade off.

As soon as you start flashing custom firmware the “just works” goes right out of the window.

Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You’re definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.

700 Chrome tabs, a very bloated IDE, an Android emulator, a VM, another Android emulator, a bunch of node.js processes (and their accompanying chrome processes)

What are you trying to run? a VPS is pennies, and a phyiscal server isn’t much more. We have a bunch of servers that are $40 a month each and they come with 5 usable IPs, 32 gigs of ram, 1tb SSD etc. The cost of getting a static IP for home will be almost as much as a server. If you want less you can get less for a lot less money.

I’ve self hosted my own personal website for years now and it’s not really an issue outside of the power going out and my IP changing. I just update DNS and move on. But if this is for an actual work? Just pay the $10 a month, not having to worry about it is worth that money.

I’ll want to make use of a lot of Windows features like virtualization, the ability to run Android apps, and the Linux subsystem.

Just stick with regular windows 11. Windows updates don’t come out that often, and feature updates can be ignored for 6+ months.

I remember when this meme was IE

Your options are:

Walgreens

Some pharmacy on the other side of town that’s failing because they’re getting overcharged for drugs (if you’re lucky)

Who says it’s overkill?

That said I literally started selfhosting on a Thinkpad W520. With the full 32 gigs of ram it ran ESXI great. Plus you can’t beat a built in UPS.

I was going to buy a mini PC to run along with it when I needed more, but I just opted to take old desktop parts and combine my NAS with everything else.