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• You can fuck anything you'd like, but it doesn't change the fact that Chromeboxes are dirt cheap and sip very little power. $75 for an i3 with 8GB as of yesterday on ebay.

  in Building a home Plex server Comment by Logano July 2022
• If you're not transcoding at all, Chromeboxes can save you power costs over the long run. EDIT: Oops, just noticed that we're late!

  in Building a home Plex server Comment by Logano July 2022
• Does Grammarly say it's VPSs? I always thought it was "-es after s"

  in Grammarly Premium - a decent AI "editor" Comment by Logano July 2022
• I have the downloadable WinMTR on all my computers, and iplocation.io is a permanently open tab in my phone's Chrome.

  in What are some online network tools that you use? Comment by Logano June 2022
• I almost started investing in my kids' college fund last week. Yikes. Good thing Vanguard's sign up process sucks. I'm now thinking of buying in when the big ETFs are down 50% YoY or when the media starts hyping up the economy again.

  in Tech Recession of 2022? Comment by Logano May 2022
• I wish I could help, but I haven't taken or read any of the 50-plus Python courses and books that are in my backlog.

  in Need guidance with python Comment by Logano May 2022
• Same here, grandfathered, and I hope they don't get rid of grandfathered pricing! I still have 100k+ credits there idling since the giveaway in 2016.

  in Postmark acquired by ActiveCampaign Comment by Logano May 2022
• These are unfamiliar terms to me, but I will look into them. Thanks! (currently pointing-and-clicking to upload stuff...)

  in Storage in the $1-2/TB/mo range Comment by Logano April 2022
• If you're okay with backing up manually, OneDrive can be about $7/yr/TB. (If there are auto-backup options for OneDrive, I'm interested!) Basically, you buy 5 Microsoft 365 Personal 1-year subscriptions via Newegg when they're on sale for $40/yr (normally $70/yr), redeem all 5 years to your Microsoft account on the…

  in Storage in the $1-2/TB/mo range Comment by Logano April 2022
• Add me to the club, although I never use it because it is worthless for my specific use case (unblocking Korean streaming services) =)

  in Is NordVPN still a good choice? Comment by Logano April 2022
• While you're at it, get FastestVPN lifetime for $20. 10 concurrent connections! lol :p https://fastestvpn.com/lifetime-special-deal EDIT: Coupon special2021 makes it $16.60

  in Is NordVPN still a good choice? Comment by Logano April 2022
• Unless you need top speeds from specific locations, specific routing or geo-unblocking streaming sites, I don't see why you'd need to pay a premium for Nord. Most of the popular providers have decent US and Europe servers. VPNUnlimited and FastestVPN lifetime deals are fine for general use. If you're not getting some sort…

  in Is NordVPN still a good choice? Comment by Logano March 2022
• I use Hetrixtools uptime monitor (heartbeat version) to get a general sense of usage but it doesn't display anything process-specific.

  in Multi server monitor tool? Comment by Logano March 2022