We only just got hardware support for AV1 and they are already coming out with a new codec?

That’s what an archiving program is supposed to do.

Bluetooth audio works pretty well these days. I just pair my headphones and set the profile to A2DP in PulseAudio Volume Control and it works. SBC and AptX codecs should just work, but LDAC and AAC may need additional packages installed. All headphones should support SBC, but it has the lowest audio quality.

There are also rolling release distros that never need upgrades. You install the system once and normal updates are all it needs.

I’ve never had any issue with file transfers apart from being a bit slower than NFS. The main issues I have with it is lack of Unix file permissions and not allowing all characters in file names.

Unless you need compatibility with windows, you are better off using NFS or SSHFS.

Have you tried doing a factory reset and not connecting it to the internet?

Are you using anything to defend against bots?

There’s still tons of content available on public trackers. Just be sure to use a VPN so you don’t get nasty letters from your ISP. It’s not hard, just connect to the VPN and bind your torrent client to the VPN interface.

FAT32 is still a very common filesystem for flash drives and memory cards because it works on everything. Lots of people are likely to run into the 4GB file size limit.

Sure, their gear is a bit expensive, but their layer 3 switches are energy efficient and quiet. You can get an old, used switch for a lot less, but it will be expensive to run and the fans will be loud.

I’ve never used tap to pay. I don’t want any banking info on my phone. In the US, we don’t need any payment apps. Cash and cards work just fine and never run out of battery power.

There’s no way I would ever connect my phone to a modern car with anything other than an aux cable or a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the headphone jack. They gather up all the data they can an do who knows what with it.

Missing those things would be a feature for me.

I’m much more worried about having a usable battery life and having basic phone functions like WiFi calling and MMS work.

Barring any issues from coming up, the patch in turn will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.18 merge window later in the year.

Hopefully they will release a decent screen for the 12. The screen on the 13 is 100% sRGB and the 16 is even better.

You could use acpid to run a script when switching between AC and battery power. Here is a forum post where someone used it to start and stop a compositor.

You can get conductive paint for RFI shielding. It’s very conductive, so make sure that the case can’t come in contact with any circuit boards or it will short out. Make sure the paint is compatible with the type of plastic you print the case out of too.

They also make ESD safe filament, but it’s $150+ a roll.

Are those mechanical hard drives? If so, I would want a fan moving air across them. Also keep in mind that most filament is not ESD safe.

SSHFS is slower than NFS due to the encryption and FUSE. It’s not a huge difference with a modern CPU and a 1 gbps connection, but it can be significant with an older CPU or a faster network.

You can use NFS over the internet, but it will be a lot more work to secure it. It was intended for use over a LAN and performance may not be great over the internet, especially with high latency or packet loss.

NFS is the best option if you only need to access the shared drives over your LAN. If you want to mount them over the internet, there’s SSHFS.