I’ve definitely had to do that with Windows so is it not ready?

No. Typically the “straight” guy in this kind of thing is the one penetrating.

I’m sure it exists but having the straight guy be the bottom is not the norm in that genre.

You can typically replace the battery inside the UPS (and should every few years). Looking at $40-50USD for “official” replacements, less for questionable third party ones.

Because as a headless server it’s likely to sit hidden for a long time. This and the always being plugged in is not good for lithium-ion batteries. If/when it starts ballooning will you notice? It’s a fire risk.

UPSes use typically lead-acid batteries like a car.

Modern Android TV box with a custom launcher. Apparently Projectivity launcher is decent.

But if you already have a Shield that’s cool keep it until it stops working. I’m just not gonna tell anyone to go buy one.

Because it’s end of lifespan and you should spend your money on something that will at least get a few years of support and updates

Yeah but I wouldn’t recommend anyone go and buy one at this point.

Heck yeah. Not always the best for power efficiency though.

Old laptops also a great choice but I really recommend removing the battery first.

Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.

I don’t know what’s good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it’s really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you’re a bit technical and the “suggested content” of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.

Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.

Passkeys aren’t so bad. Just switch to a password manager that stores them for you, preferably a self-hosted one if you’re technically inclined.

Oh hey thanks for reminding me, freed 5GB which should buy me a bit of time on upgrading the server I use for this lemmy instance.

I just did some travel to Canada and maybe next week too while I’m here close to the border

To be fair even on a globe Greenland is still massive. Just not quite as bad on Mercator.

You’re assuming they actually go to events where wearing a suit is expected, which for many is exceptionally rare.

Take a picture of the moon with the horizon sometime. It always appears smaller in the photo.

In theory yes. But remember that Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source. But nobody has stepped up to do a viable hard fork to take power away from Google.

Maintaining a modern browser is a huge undertaking which is why almost nobody except Google, Mozilla, and Apple are really even trying. Even Microsoft threw in the towel.

The more bad stuff is added to Firefox the harder it will be for any forks to keep up removing it while also keeping it up to date. Will anyone step up?

Doesn’t need to be touch for that

I’m renting a Mazda and it seems really tame on that front. Buttons for everything… There’s one screen that can do Android Auto/Carplay but it’s NOT touchscreen. You have a big knob down with the gear selector that you can rotate and push in/up/down/left/right to use it. But no car controls except radio tuning on it. There’s a separate knob for volume (and on-wheel controls).

Every one of them can, AFAIK. I have a second cheap used phone I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch and it has a system called Waydroid for this. Not quite seamless and you’ll want to use native when possible but it does work.

SailfishOS, PostmarketOS, Mobian, etc all also can use Waydroid or a similar thing

Well how’d it work out after that