I’m planning to get an ebike to commute. It took me awhile but I finally found a nice bike that doesn’t have an app.

I know she doesn’t have the “M” chip, so I’d guess it’s an Intel

Oh I didn’t realize it was like that. I’ll have to re-visit my Mom’s Macbook

I use a VPN with NewPipe, no problems. I’m using the NewPipe repo for the app

Great! I’ve got my Dad on it, just need to get my mom off of her iPad now

I suggest enlarging your current NAS or building one and running something like Open Media Vault, Umbrel, CASA, etc.

For streaming, Kodi is the best value though it’s via pirating. But is pirating such a bad thing when these companies steal your data and revoke movies that you purchased? With a debrid service costing $17 for 6mo you can stream basically anything with no slowdowns. Run Kodi via LibreElec on a RPi5.

I’ve been using this for a few months now with Organic Maps and it’s incredibly good. A few versions ago I noticed some issues with certain letter sounds but with frequent updates it now sounds so natural.

I found “vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium” to be the most natural sounding voice for English.

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If Kodi is used to watch movies and TV shows for free then you’d want to protect your internet traffic from unwanted eyes

Absolutely this. Depending on how you use it though, make sure you have a VPN and private DNS setup on your router

I listen to quite a few different podcasts via AntennaPod and have never listened to an ad that wasn’t from the podcast itself. Maybe it’s due to my DNS settings or luck of the draw?

I recently got a Dell Latitude 14 2-in-1 with the AMD 8840U, Put on the latest Fedora Kinoite and the fingerprint reader works FYI.

Great story. I have found that pretty much everyone I have shown Linux is pleasantly surprised with how nice it is. I think people have an idea of it being a hacker person OS with code running on the screen.

You’re welcome. I’m glad I could help out

Frigate can definitely run on a Pi. It can also integrate with Home Assistant which can run on a Pi. As for turning itself off when you’re home, I don’t know.

You can use a Wyze Video Doorbell 1 and flash it with thingino firmware. Then hook it up to a Frigate home surveillance server.

Put a sticker on what you don’t want stolen saying something along the lines of “airtag equipt.” Thieves want easy targets and if there’s any reason to think a tracker is hidden within it then they will probably move on

You can get generally up to PS3 games working on PC and you’d be owning those games too. Value for money is good and all but owning vs leasing is clear cut and I’ll take owning my stuff everytime, as that is valuable to me.

Then we return to the topic of not owning your games with Steam. Try installing non Steam games via the Heroic launcher and use Bazzite OS instead

StarLabs has one with an N200 but that’s still dated