I’d say 1999, first DSL was only 1.1M

Yup, in my case I know the 3D priter is the hobby. Like were the telescopes rather than the astronomy, or my Hi-Fi rather than the music. Nerds gotta nerd.

We do it with crocodiles but maths checks out.

I own 3 of those. They are not for PS or XBox but for mostly for PC gaming. They are not Bluetooth, they come with their dedicated USB nano receiver. I don’t even trust them to win a championship in “F1 race stars”, the arcade F1 game. The wireless is not reliable enough. They eat AA batteries like candy.

Having a second that is not in line with the definition of the second, which if the most metric thing, is an abomination.

If you already own a domain name, you could use Cloudflare tunnels using cloudflared (it’s free).

Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor

Because a kilo is 1000. That’s why you have kibi, mebi, gibi binary prefixes for those times where 1024 (power of 2’s) matter.

Un-smarting our home is indeed my current concern if I would pass suddenly. It’s mostly usable manually but most switches would continually try to connect to WiFi and mqtt. I rather hope have my teenager son be able to take over if need be. My passwords could be accessed by my wife anytime but I’m not sure she realises it, it would be to be documented.

If your motherboard has TPM 1.2, you can go for it it works fine for me and that’s more resources than most current entry level hardware in mini PC