Another consideration... If you are a programmer type then OpenSCAD is a language-based program. I've been using it heavily for the past week designing a dual-filament extruder for my Ender 3, and last year I designed and built a utility trailer. As with anything it has its quirks, but I'm much more comfortable writing code and I always found the other GUI-oriented programs to be unintuitive.
We should start posting that 3.2% of children watching Trump on TV have developed autism, therefor Trump is using subliminal messaging and is dangerous to their kids. They may not care that a pedophile is in office, but mention subliminal messaging and they'll go crazy.
I think my suggestion would be to use the PC as a dedicated firewall, but you will need at least two ethernet ports for that (one to connect to the ISP router, and the second for internal network). This lets you learn network security and control the traffic that can actually get to your other computers. You could also set up KVM to start running virtual machines here. The idea with a VM is to keep services separate and isolated, so like one VM to manage security cameras, another VM to host a game server, another one to host sonarr/radarr/jellyfin... etc.
When you are able to expand, your second physical machine should be your NAS. Get your storage space started, share it over NFS or samba, and move your backup/security camera/sonarr VMs over to this machine for direct access to the larger storage space. Pay attention to system usage and move your VMs to balance the cpu/memory resources. Eventually you may want to get a third machine dedicated more for hosting the game servers, maybe a web server to view the security camera feeds, or whatever.
You mentioned backing up Wikipedia... Have a look at the Kiwix project, you can already get access to regular backups for a lot of information sites.
The big farms are the ones that can afford to bribe Trump with golden offerings, so they will get bailouts and then raise their prices anyway. This Winter is when things will start getting interesting, because we can't afford to import food but we'll have to do it anyway, and grocery prices will go through the roof. I can't wait to hear the MAGA excuses about why they can't eat, but it will of course be blamed on the Dems. Quite frankly, I say let them rot. I've been stockpiling canned goods over the Summer, I can wait it out.
Keep in mind that seasonal crops are going to be harvested soon, and nobody will be getting good prices from foreign sales this year. I know most farmers can ride out at least one bad season, but if the current policy continues into next year you can bet that a huge number of farms are going to completely collapse.
Meh there was nothing important about him and no reason for anyone to care. On the other hand, there was another school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, at nearly the same time, and THAT is what everyone should be focusing on. Of course the cantaloupe in charge still hasn't said a word about THAT because he couldn't make that tragedy about himself.
Every claim they make that the shooter was left-leaning has been found to be an outright lie.
Influenced towards the left in college? He spent one semester during the 2021 lockdowns taking online courses.
Old friend who said the shooter leaned left? Retracted the same day after realizing he actually didn't know if he was thinking of the same person.
And now this crap of the roommate being trans? The roommate had a tiktok chat where he asked an AI to generate an anime character from his photo and it generated a female character. The roommate then clarified he was wearing a "sloth" hoodie because he was hoping the AI would generate a sloth themed character.
This "evidence" just goes to show how desperate the right is to make people believe the left is declaring war on them. As usual, the right wants to play the victim in something they've done to themselves. And lets not forget the shooter was an active groyper -- that simply cannot coexist with someone who is left-leaning.
I guess this is how they solve their food shortage after getting so much blowback from trying to force children to replace migrants working in the fields.
Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn't actually create.
Everything else aside, what kind of "financial" harm could she have possibly suffered? As if she would even know the meaning of overwhelming money loss.
Amazon is so bad at coordinating their deliveries that I have seen three delivery vans parked on my block at the same time. Now I'm just waiting for them all to show up at the same house at once.
Don't forget that managers think the same thing -- if it's free then it is somehow an inferior product but if you pay for something then that automatically makes it better. This applies forward as well... the more they pay for something, the "better" it must be.
For example... Cybertruck.
From my perspective, open-source products are greatly superior because you have the entire community of users and engineers working on a known issue, rather than a few paid engineers who may not even use the product. Even more importantly, the community will solve problems that a corporation has decided aren't worth the effort or are "obsolete".
I can understand why some programs only allow a single copy to be opened at once, something like email makes sense. However on Linux they got this right... if you try to open a program that is already running, it switches to the screen that program is on and restores the program window to the desktop. There's no guessing why the program "won't open", it just makes the logical choice that you want to see it.
Heh that reminds me of another detail from that call... the guy also wasn't willing to reboot his computer (which would have solved the problem as well), but berated me for not knowing what I was doing for making the suggestion. Dude, it's Windows, things break constantly and a reboot generally resolves the issue.
Oh I have no doubt he got angry that the IT guy made him look stupid. Everyone on the support desk already knew his reputation so it wasn't going to get any worse with us. I wish I had been around long enough to see what happened with his next demotion, because there was no possible way he was going to last even a year, I just can't figure out how he made it to such a high initial position in the first place (unless he fudged his resume and got hired into it).
At one time I worked for IBM, supporting a nationwide company. There was a top guy who (like in the above story) thought he was hot shit. I think he was something like the CFO, but his ineptitude was recognized and he was pushed out. This company allowed people to move to a lower position, and he always thought he knew more about computers than everyone else, so he took the position of CTO.
One day I got a call from him, ranting that Outlook wouldn't open and these computers were hopelessly broken. The normal procedure was to remote connect into the caller's computer to directly fix any problems, but he decided he was smarter than the tech support people, and refused to allow me to access his machine. Fortunately I had direct contact with the on-site tech guy, who knew what he would be facing and went to the CTO's office.
When he got back a couple minutes later, I asked him what the issue was. "Outlook was already open, it was just minimized to the task bar."
Another consideration... If you are a programmer type then OpenSCAD is a language-based program. I've been using it heavily for the past week designing a dual-filament extruder for my Ender 3, and last year I designed and built a utility trailer. As with anything it has its quirks, but I'm much more comfortable writing code and I always found the other GUI-oriented programs to be unintuitive.