Try booting from a live disk. If it works there, it’s probably an update or config change that’s causing problems.

Solder one on an old laptop power brick or get an adapter to run it from a 20V power tool battery.

It also has a normal power jack, so you don’t have to use USB.

Just press Control+Shift+U, enter the unicode value in hex, then press enter.

It probably just needs the drives to use a format with unix file permissions. I have a mix of ext4 and btrfs and Steam has never had issues with that.

That’s what happens when you have a 25 year old protocol and try to maintain backwards compatibility through all of the versions.

Uncompressed 16 bit 48KHz stereo is 1536 kbps, which is just slightly higher than what bluetooth 5 is capable of.

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

Just keep in mind that you can’t wipe the bad sectors that have been remapped. That’s unlikely to be an issue for a personal drive, but something to consider if it held particularly sensitive information.

I encrypt everything that leaves my house since it could be easily lost or stolen, but it is rather inconvenient.

If someone breaks into my house, I’ve got bigger problems than someone getting their hands on my media collection. I think it would be more likely for me to mess something up and loose access to my data than for someone to steal it.

Yes, they are still good to use. There are also a number of other sizes of cylindrical lithium ion cells available if an 18650 won’t fit.

Because that would take a long time if you deleted a large file in another partition or drive. You could also end up not having enough space to move the file to trash and if the trash directory is on an SSD, it would add a lot of unnecessary wear to it.