Can't speak for KDE but if you end up needing a workaround you could try installing and configuring xrdp (despite the name it works with Wayland as well as X) - just make sure to configure it listening on a different port vs KDE's RDP server (or just keep KDE's disabled, I guess).

I'm on GNOME and have both GNOME RDP and xrdp but in practice I usually just use xrdp.

Seems like it's down right now.

Not Teamviewer-ish but on Windows I've set up a simple batch file that launches a reverse VNC connection (using TightVNC) from the remote system to myself in the case someone needs me to look at something on their desktop. Nothing fancy about it, just something simple to get going if you don't want or need anything more complex.

Haven't done it on Linux yet but I suspect a bash script + a VNC app (TigerVNC maybe?) would be able to do the same thing.

It's an interesting write up... I'm a bit surprised there are/were that many internet facing telnetd instances online. Maybe it's just the sheer amount of ancient routers & such that were deployed with telnet enabled by default and are still plugged in and running to this day.

If you're thinking that the computer is going to be used for another 10 years or whatever it might be worth cleaning up the heatsink and replacing whatever thermal paste/pad was on there.. but for now as long as here's some sort of thermal material on there you should be okay. Main thing right now is to figure out if the machine can actually perform a normal boot or if it's done.

So I removed the power supply. Then I started just removing the fans to clean them (been about a year), and then I removed the big heat sink fan over the processor. I don’t think I ever removed that before.

Just to be sure.. you re-installed the processor's heat sink right? You probably didn't need to remove that unless you were planning on changing the thermal paste but that's a done deal now.

Put just the ram back in, no hard drive. I knew it wouldn’t boot. I thought I might get past the dell logo, and get the screen that says something like “No boot drive” or whatever it says normally when it has no hard drive. It did NOT do that. It still just stayed on the dell logo.

My rough guess - When you initially got in there moving things around for the hard drives and then attempted power something got shorted and definitely damaged, you made an attempt with the replacement power supply so it sounds like a possible motherboard issue unfortunately. This stuff happens :/ But to try ruling other things out, just to give it a shot try resetting the BIOS if there's a jumper or button on the board to do that (can't remember offhand if the old Dells have that but probably?), I've sometimes gotten back to a normal boot after doing it. Also since it's an old computer could be worth replacing the motherboard battery while you're at it.. I've seen weird/unstable boot-ups when old desktops no longer have a good battery to store the BIOS info.. and like you said you had it on all this time without turning it off, probably wouldn't have noticed any issues with the battery until now.

After all that if it's still not coming up.. well it's an old computer, maybe it's a sign that it's time for a new build.

See https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-01-06/#client-corner

Mainly the users folder(s) e.g. c:\users\YOURUSERNAME , the hidden appdata\local and appdata\roaming folders in there probably contain way more than you actually need to back up but you could back up the whole thing to be on the safe side. Most of your user's program configuration data is in those folders.

Sometimes systemwide program config data is in the hidden c:\programdata folder but I wouldn't back that up aside from specific programs you really want to save config info for.

Aside from that any other folders you created containing data you care about.

And like the other comment mentioned, the Windows registry also has lots of program config data but I usually skip that, the majority of it is useless.. but if there's a great need for you to export a specific registry tree you could do that via the command prompt to export to a backup text file. I think reg export would do it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/reg-export

That's interesting, apparently it was mentioned on github but nothing seems to have changed in the end

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

Haven't used that software in a long time but maybe there's an opt-out somewhere during runtime? Although I don't see why a user needs to be required to opt out of nonsense like this when just writing firmware to a USB disk.

Only ever touched balenaEtcher when some project or distro recommended it. Overall prefer Rufus for this sort of thing when working on Windows.

In August, Canoo moved its headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to Justin, Texas — asking 137 of the office’s 194 employees to relocate, while cutting the remaining staff.

Yikes, not great for all those employees that moved their entire lives out to TX just to get laid off. They weren't even working in TX long enough to qualify for unemployment. Hopefully they were getting paid enough to deal with relocation and maybe have enough saved up to get the hell out of TX after this.

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Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.

Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you'd need to check the individual projects to be sure.