A mechanic's stethoscope will make it pretty easy to figure out where the noise is coming from.
cmnybo
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A switch mode LED driver can be made very tiny with as few as 4 components. Battery protection and a single cell battery charger can also be very simple.
There is a donate link on their website.
Of course there's no difference. Glass is one of the most recyclable materials there is.
A portion of the 5GHz WiFI band overlaps with the 5.8GHz ham band too. There are also a few WiFi radios that will also work above the US WiFi band where they can operate without interference from other license free devices. Those are used in the HamWAN network.
It's been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That's a lot better than my old DSL provider.
There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.
You don't need a static IP address, but you do need a public IP address. You can use dynamic DNS to avoid having to keep track of your IP address. FreeDNS will work fine for a basic setup.
Wireguard is one of the easiest VPN servers to use. If you're not using your ISP's router, it may even have Wireguard built in.
Ads used to be static text in the sidebar that the site owner manually put there. They didn't have any tracking and didn't slow down the loading time. Once they started adding images, I started using an ad blocker. I was stuck on dial-up until 2008 and a single, small image could add 10 or more seconds to the page loading time.
Most routers don't support open source firmware. If you want privacy and firmware updates, it needs to be supported by OpenWRT.