CD-RWs are not magneto-optical. MiniDiscs are though.
cmnybo
joined 2 years ago
I would only rip the ones that you can't download. To get a decent quality transfer from tape, you will need to connect a time base corrector between the VCR and capture card. Unfortunately, they are rather hard to find now and expensive.
I really don't like that they misused a pair of USB connectors for the GPIO. There are lots of other connectors that are much more suitable for that.
A portion of the 5GHz WiFI band overlaps with the 5.8GHz ham band too. There are also a few WiFi radios that will also work above the US WiFi band where they can operate without interference from other license free devices. Those are used in the HamWAN network.
Also watch out for any link files, .com files and .bat files.
The ABS is more likely to be usable after drying.
It's not hard to make Linux run on 2GB of RAM. The hard part is getting a web browser to run on 2GB without constantly swapping.
It's been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That's a lot better than my old DSL provider.
802.11ac was a huge improvement over 802.11n. The later versions have only given a small performance increase unless you don't have neighbors and can run wide channels.
It's better to stick with brands like Mikrotik and Ubiquiti for WiFi access points and hardware you can run OPNsense or OpenWRT on for a firewall/router.