I run a NUC and a few other network things off a 125W elcheapo $20 bestek(?) inverter off the house battery.

Sure it gets converted twice but actual watts wasted are minimal in a low power scheme, and the juice is cleaner in the end.

And consider DIYing a big house battery. The cells are cheap now. I built a 1200Ah LFP bank just because it fit nicely in the compartment. Then throw some solar at it.

And for backup, just get a large spinning external and plug it in occasionally to sync a copy. Put it back in the Tupperware for cold storage.

Ed: why the downvote?

Also you can repurpose an old phone as a Webcam, and many other uses

Hey, it had a good, hard life and went down fighting. That’s all you can ask for.

Well batteries are replacement items, too.

You can probably get all three done together for fairly cheap once they get working on it.

You can get your screen and USB ports replaced at a local fixit place. shop around

Thanks but looking for offline solutions

FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.

And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.

Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.

Qbittorrent or Rutorrent has some kind of extension to allow single private file sharing

Or can a private magnet link accomplish this?

I just fired my gen1 up on my 1080p screen and it looks like crap. I think they have already deprecated the bandwidth?

Chromium is implied. Firefox isn’t based on that code base unlike most every other browser.

Airplane mode + extreme battery saver mode + delete all the apps you can

And check your battery stats to see if anything else is using power

Good one. And Lenovo battery management utility allows setting the state of charge level. Set it for 50% and the battery will last mostly forever.

What’s the use case in a messaging app?

Does it work as a continual conversation, building on the history?

That’s a Waze feature??

Interesting. I’ve originally heard it loosely attributed as a kind of homophone aberration where ‘ham’ comes from ‘hamature’. But maybe it’s vice-versa, or that’s a corporate line from the organization ARRL Amateur Radio Relay League.