That's a good point. Any mission to this orbit would have a new upper stage in that orbit. But today I think most missions leave enough fuel in the upper stage for it to do one more burn to deorbit. So the answer is, hopefully, no new debris would be left behind.

Apparently the upper stage of the launch vehicle is also still in orbit. Perhaps leave the satellite and bring back the upper stage. It's also probably a lot larger, so there will be more to study. And it's probably also a lot harder to bring back, so we may learn more about how to do things than just bringing back a tiny satellite; an astronaut in a Dragon could just climb out and grab the satellite.

Years ago FreeNAS went commercial, and there was an open source fork called NAS4Free, which eventually rebranded as XigmaNAS. I've been running that for many years, and it's been rock solid, but I'm not pushing it hard. It's also managed with a web GUI, and has support for a crazy long list of features. I just use it for NFS and TimeMachine.

It might pay to upgrade, though likely not in this case. It would be worth measuring the actual power draw, multiply Watts times 24*365.25 / 1000 * (cost per KwH from your power bill).

Let's do the math:

I see someone reported a 2012 Mac Mini drawing 9.1W, and power at $.16/KwH (national average), that comes out to only $12.76/year. So you're not likely to be able to save enough to pay for an upgrade. But if you were in Massachusetts at $.28/KwH with a home-built server drawing 65W, that's about $160/year, so upgrading to a lower-power system could pay for itself.

I would love to see Apple sell laptops with their M4 chips that are designed for running Linux or Windows. Perhaps using a new separate brand. Right now, I'm running Linux on a PowerBook M3 using UTM for virtualization, and it's the fastest Linux I've ever run.

Clearly the other streaming services just don't care. Bandwidth is too low on their cost matrix for even a significant savings to matter to them. They just don't want to bother with the complexity of setting up another encoding system. It's not like they have to switch; they just need to encode shows in both, and then stream to customers with hardware that supports the new codec. If they just did this for their top hits, they could save a ton of bandwidth with minimal effort.

Smoke detectors always have a 10-year life, so it's not just Nest. But your point is valid. I just don't see the point of a smart smoke detector. Now if you really what to be alerted to an alarm when you're away, they could make a smart device that hooks into the wiring for wired smoke detectors and sends notifications of any alarms. Someone really should do that.

Since when did someone have to accept a pardon? There's nothing about that in the Constitution. The President pardons people whether they like it or not.

I associate Paramount+ with Star Trek. Don't they have like a dozen different new Trek series? They might as well rename themselves "Star Trek+" and be done with it.

Actually, it would be funny if Disney bought the Star Trek franchise and added it to Disney+. Considering that they already have Marvel, Star Wars, and Doctor Who, it wouldn't be a terrible idea.

That may be true for the others, but Disney+ is pretty obviously for fans of Disney/Pixar movies, Disney Channel kids content, Star Wars, and Marvel. (Yes, they have Doctor Who and some other random content.)

Oh, and isn't Disney+ the original '+' streaming service?

It might be best not to release certain keys for code signing, but users still need a way around it.

When a company drops support for a product, they should be required to release information to allow owners to update to open source software. Details of how to make this work are tricky, and it might not help much unless there is enough of a community to develop and distribute hacked firmware that uses alternate servers or whatever.

This is all about adding DRM and paid content. This is horrible for consumers. It's an end to the model of being able to watch TV for free with an antenna.

Sadly, he's no longer getting enough oxygen.

I once had a goal of getting famous enough to be on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

That's a valid point. If I were starting this today, I would just buy a Synology NAS instead of my roll-your-own NAS4Free (now XigmaNAS). But I did build something for under the budget for the media center we would have built with 2+1 RAID. I recently upgraded to much larger drives for a 1+1 RAID (mirrored).