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We should start posting that 3.2% of children watching Trump on TV have developed autism, therefor Trump is using subliminal messaging and is dangerous to their kids. They may not care that a pedophile is in office, but mention subliminal messaging and they'll go crazy.

I think my suggestion would be to use the PC as a dedicated firewall, but you will need at least two ethernet ports for that (one to connect to the ISP router, and the second for internal network). This lets you learn network security and control the traffic that can actually get to your other computers. You could also set up KVM to start running virtual machines here. The idea with a VM is to keep services separate and isolated, so like one VM to manage security cameras, another VM to host a game server, another one to host sonarr/radarr/jellyfin... etc.

When you are able to expand, your second physical machine should be your NAS. Get your storage space started, share it over NFS or samba, and move your backup/security camera/sonarr VMs over to this machine for direct access to the larger storage space. Pay attention to system usage and move your VMs to balance the cpu/memory resources. Eventually you may want to get a third machine dedicated more for hosting the game servers, maybe a web server to view the security camera feeds, or whatever.

You mentioned backing up Wikipedia... Have a look at the Kiwix project, you can already get access to regular backups for a lot of information sites.

Heh I managed to jump directly from best-case to worst-case, but hey, that still leaves everything in between as options. :-)

Yeah, speed is everything and there are pcmcia ethernet cards for $10 or less on ebay if OP has that option.

OK something that old surely has a serial port on it? If so, look in to "sneakernet" (it's a technique, not a product) to connect to another computer. I've even done networking over a serial port with linux, but there also used to be software just for copying files. That wouldn't give you a drive image but it would at least back up the software.

Plug the destination drive into the new USB adapter you got?

If only... I know who I'd put my money on. The only way Trump could win is if he accidentally fell on his opponent.

Yeah we definitely need more information. I don't see anything in this post that suggests censorship.

Don't forget about cops giving gun-safety classes.

Or we could see a bomb go off in the Pentagon, at the meeting to which Hegseth was "unfortunately running late".

I was just wondering how much I could sell them for if they had an actual bullet hole through them...

The big farms are the ones that can afford to bribe Trump with golden offerings, so they will get bailouts and then raise their prices anyway. This Winter is when things will start getting interesting, because we can't afford to import food but we'll have to do it anyway, and grocery prices will go through the roof. I can't wait to hear the MAGA excuses about why they can't eat, but it will of course be blamed on the Dems. Quite frankly, I say let them rot. I've been stockpiling canned goods over the Summer, I can wait it out.

Keep in mind that seasonal crops are going to be harvested soon, and nobody will be getting good prices from foreign sales this year. I know most farmers can ride out at least one bad season, but if the current policy continues into next year you can bet that a huge number of farms are going to completely collapse.