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Do they, or is it just men that think that? While women might think of their own gender around a fire, and assume either gender/ non-gendered

Male or female beer?

I don't know if tapo plugs are supported, but this git code lets you turn tplink kasa plugs into local server activated plugs so you don't have to use tplink app for activation online. Then homeassistant is a great tool for control

https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100

Also worked on dimmable switches

Install Portainer, it helps you get used to managing docker images and containers before going full command line.

I feel the pain. I went through the same with my Dell system. I found somebody selling a cheap industrial sata 2.5 ssd that had good consistent read speed, and threw that in for the boot partition, and nvme for everything else. Disappointing but bootup is stil quick in the 30-35 seconds instead of minutes

Syncthing is probably a good choice

As a side note you can put the efi boot partition on a hdd during install, but the OS on the NVME. it will boot up quick

That is dissappointing. If you search you might find somone that has already modified the BIOS image. or has an Option ROM available. You should see load option ROM as a BIOS option. But you never with the interwebs to know if the download firmware image it will brick your system or be some malware.

That drive says it is nvme protocol, It is possible the 840 G2 BIOS doesn't support m2 nvme booting, only m2 sata protocol booting.

I have an old Dell machine like this.

There are blogs on the steps to take a blob from an nvme BIOS ROM and patch it into your HP G2 firmware, but it can be risky.

Changing to a true sata m.2 might solve it.

There are a couple of samsung older drives 850 series maybe, that have a built in option ROM boot portion, to get around tgis BIOS issue

Is it a full m.2 drive or that intel hybrid drive setup? if it is the hybrid drive I believe you can change from raid to ahci, to alter how drives are seen.

Was m.2 working on the machine prior? m.2 form factor sata is different than m.2 form factor nvme drive.

Also HP can be fussy about what drive sizes are supoorted, the user manual will list some drives that work

Agreed. And yeah phone is good, especially now that I moved to GrapheneOS. All the tight security amd privacy settings, minus all the google apps ( those can be Sandbox added to keep Google out of your business). Anyhow, have a good weekend.!!

Hotmail, now there is a name I haven't heard in a while. we used to troll a handsome guy at work. After people left his desk he'd come over " Guys can you stop telling staff my e-mail is HotMale@hotmail.com"