Probably. Why wouldn’t it?

Burn it to a disc or put it on a bootable thumbdrive with Yumi and find out.

It isn’t clear what question you’re asking.

I’ve never seen machine that won’t boot to a WinPE disk, that’s the point of WinPE.

Preach!

Even without a VPS Tailscale will work fine after the router resets.

The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.

That’s all.

And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.

I’ve had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.

Months later I’d still get hits on that port though it had been closed.

Yea, Tailscale would work even if the router was fully reset.

Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.

The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).

You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.

You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.

But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.

Its not “targeted at old school”, it’s an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it, everywhere.

There are currently over 100 extensions.

I never once heard “an old person” (whatever that means) mis-pronounce “meme”.

And I’ve been around long enough as an adult to pre-date common usage of the term as its known today.

PWA app only is a big no sale.

As much as I dislike dedicated apps for things that don’t need it, THIS is something that needs it.

Still staggering to me that XMPP isn’t the default, since it was used in many chat apps in the late 90’s.

Thanks for the correction - bunch of numbers in my head and I grabbed the first one, haha.

I have pages of notes about how to convert different types of videos with accompanying scripts for ffmpeg, so I don’t really have to think about it anymore.

When you go to reconvert it has noticeable impact in how you encode.

I have movies with letterboxing that’s 20% of the screen. You’re going to say losing 20% of your pixels to baked-in, forced letterboxing has no impact?

I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it of the many I have for different purposes.

Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.

It depends on how you intend to view, and the source.

DVD source? No reason to go past 720 480 as that’s all they do.

Blu-ray can do a lot more.

Interestingly on a 65" 4k TV, I find most 720 sources to be fine. I did just watch Blithe Spirit from DVD and it was awful. Lots of blurriness. Someone really screwed up the encoding on that one.

As others have said, test your encoding. I’ve generally found with handbrake that movies converted with a Quality level 19 (H264 MKV container), reduce about 70%+. So a 4 GB video often reduces to 1 GB, and you can’t see the difference on the screen.

Some you can, but those are movies with a 16:9 aspect ratio and letterboxing built into the video so DVD players show them correctly. Since that loses some pixels up front, they require using higher quality levels to prevent visual lossiness.

Exactly.

I’d say that’s most languages in a nutshell - they start wherever, then grow organically based on a million reasons.

And the written form is nothing more than an attempt to capture how it sounds, to codify how it’s currently used, not to be prescriptive.

John McWhorter explains this really well in “Great Languages of the World” - he’s pretty light-hearted and amused by things like how convoluted and inconsistent English is, while also delving into how different languages likely came to be the way they are.

So Poseidon assaulted her Temple of Athena?

Damn, OK, now THIS is a proper shower thought.

This would probably do better in Unpopular Opinions

Its spec’d for that