Can you explain a bit what did you do?

How is cycles in viewport behaving?

For blender nvidia gpu is a the best for cycles as it has optiX support.

If she does ONLY modeling and uses eevee renders without viewport previews then integrated graphics could work.

If she wants viewport preview then dedicated GPU is a must. IDK how fares AMD gpu in blender as I didn’t have one for years.

Some gaming laptops with dedicated GPUs need external kernel modules just to work if they even have one.

My best bet would be to go for old gaming laptop.

My second best bet would be to go for system76 as they have some gaming laptops

Depends on the threat model.

NOAA and others gets underfunded/change of menagement and need to close down open access to stuff.

or

Data becomes illegal to possess and feds start knocking on Web Archive doors.

or

Web archive will do something stupid and will get sued/DDOSed

In only one very unlikely scenario it won’t be availble due to recent events. But still redundancy would be good regardless of recent stuff.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

they have an automatic VM that dowloads stuff in distributed manner and uploads to archive.org

What specs do you have?

If there is a will there is a way

example guides

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3294091054

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJ330NGjCU

also check r/lowendgaming@reddit.com

a) on mobile it doesn’t work as good as on desktop at all
2) It crashed my firefox on desktop

10/10 will read it again

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I think more important is compute per watt and idle power consumption than raw max compute power.

I have rebooted into recovery mode and after connecting to a network it seems that with some warnings, it begun upgrading.

You can use windows in indefinite trial version with Activate Windows watermark. Grab a windows iso from the website. Put it on USB stick (I use Ventoy). And install. I would keep windows bootlaoder and grub on separate partitions.

Can you downgrade the network to older standard?

It would seem that there isn’t easy way to do it on windows. You would need to RE and write the drivers yourself.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Will-WPA3-be-certified-on-existing-AC-8265-8260-7265-7260-NICs/m-p/680333

There is a accessibility setting to disable touchpad when typing. You could try to hack into it to disable your mouse.

From quick look at it I don’t think it possible

Anki for vocab
Textbook for grammar
Immersion for everything else

Also input and output are two different skills.

What distro and DE are you using?

As far as I can see you could try to attach 1 ssd to SATA0 (it can dangle in the air) and 2 hard drives to SATA1 and SATA2 (They are capped to 300MB/s and should be attached to the case with screws)

There should be space somewhere to put the drives as I can see in the specification. You will probably need to remove the CD drive.

There is also a question if power supply has enough power sockets to attach to the disks. You could try to find eSATA -> SATA adapter to attach something to the last port.

You probably won’t find the bigger case as motherboard isn’t standard size.

I would probably try to upgrade to standard motherboard size but I would also calculate the cost of consumed electricity in a year vs cost of more efficient hardware.

2 internal hdds

As I understand the PC case is some sort of small form factor and the motherboard has more SATA ports to plug in disks.

If that’s the case then try to find old pc case in the dumpster or from a neighbour. It should have more space for disks.

Some PCs 15 years ago had incompatible layouts so be a little cautious but gratis is a fair price.

Maybe write it as an GNOME or KDE plugin?

Oh. So that’s why it looks better. Photo stacking is OP.

Found the spreadsheet https://goo.gl/z8nt3A

And the source: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/die-sparsamsten-systeme-30w-idle.1007101/

Still you can calculate how much you will save with 2w power reduction with selling this one and buying different NAS.

You can reduce the disk idle time after access to 5-15 min for better power saving.

Maybe you are looking at the wrong thing. CPU + motherboard controllers idle state matters more than spun down hdds

I saw a spreadsheet somewhere of a lot of cpu + motherboard combinations with idle power consumption for ultra low energy NAS optimisation.