There are several IP address ranges reserved specifically for documentation and examples such as 192.0.2.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32. That's what they should have used.
cmnybo
joined 2 years ago
Almost no one is using NiCd anymore. It's not hard to design something to run properly from alkaline, NiMH & Li-Ion cells. We have efficient switch mode power supplies that can step the battery voltage up or down to whatever the device needs to run.
Pouch cells suck, there are no standard sizes and they like to puff up and break open the case of whatever they are inside of.
Low self discharge NiMH batteries work great.
Batteries still wear out because of age regardless of how many charge cycles they've had.
That hardware still has plenty of power for basic use. It should be good for another 10 years running Linux.
Keep the firewall on dedicated hardware. You don't want your whole network going down because you have to do some work on the server.
I had an upgrade fail and completely break the install a long time ago. I haven't tried a distribution upgrade since then. I just format and install a new distro every couple of years. It cleans out all the crap I end up with from 3rd party repositories and stuff I've compiled from source. I'm sure upgrades probably work a lot better now though.
I did have Arch running on one of my laptops for quite a while, but I quit using it after it started falling apart.
I've got a 16MB MMC card that I use as an offline backup for my password manager database. It's old enough that it uses SLC flash, so I don't have to worry about data retention time.
I use it as a modifier key for all of the shortcuts I create since nothing uses it by default.
Just use a mini PC and pirate everything. The amazon fire interface sucks anyways. Every streaming service is in a different app and you have to remember which app to use for each show.
That's a for LAN use. The other IPv4 example ranges are 198.51.100.0/24, 203.0.113.0/24 and 233.252.0.0/24.