This is one of the reasons why you should always use open source firmware on your router.

It sounds like they need to do a lot more work to increase the cycle life.

Companies should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to each customer that gets their data stolen on top of paying for any damages caused by the use of the stolen data. That would put them out of business with a breach this large.

If you don't want to wait for it to rip, you can play it in VLC. It will let you skip anything you want to.

I would say for as long as the hardware remains useful. A high end laptop may still be perfectly usable in 15 years if the hardware doesn't fail by then.

PCIe 2.0 is 500 MB/s per lane, it's not going to limit the speed. That CPU certainly doesn't have enough power to run something heavy like IDS at 1gbps though.

HP was a good company back when they primarily made test equipment. They made very good equipment that was built to last. They had very detailed documentation and service manuals so you could repair everything yourself.

I would buy Affinity Photo if they had a Linux version. Sure, it could be run in Wine, but I don't like using it for anything except games.

They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It's not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.

The first thing I do is remove all of the foreign language fonts and documentation. That frees up a lot of space.