Yes, that’s the only one that destroys the image.

HTTP works fine in Firefox unless you set it to HTTPS only. Even then, you only have to click off a warning to open an HTTP site.

Put a multi port NIC in your router PC and use a separate unmanaged switch for each network then.

I would just get a basic layer 2 managed switch and use VLANs. The 5 port and 8 port switches are super cheap these days.

It gets rid of most of the login attempts for me. I don’t use a popular port though. Pick a 5 digit port so they have to put in some effort to find it.

The SSH and VPN traffic is encrypted. Unless your private keys have been compromised, nobody can see what is going over the tunnel. They can log things like the IP addresses that are connecting to it and how much data is being transferred though.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.

They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.

If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.

It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.

It’s easy if you use the right tool.

1. Draw circle in Inkscape
2. Export as bitmap
3. Import bitmap in GIMP.

I’ve never had good luck with NFS on a high latency connection. SSHFS still works fine even if the server is on the other side of the planet.

SSHFS is secure and works well over the internet. If you only want to access it over the LAN, then NFS is a much better option.