Any printer that supports Mopria or AirPrint will work on Linux without installing any drivers.

I prefer using older Brother laser printers that don’t have any chips in the toner cartridges. I have an HL-4150CDN and a DCP-7065DN.

I’ve had torrents run for months. Usually with just one seeder that only connects periodically.

They still make cases without side windows if you don’t want to see the lights.

Dynamic DNS has been around forever. A program monitors your public IP address and updates the DNS record when it changes. You can even use a service like FreeDNS if you don’t want to pay for a domain.

The VPN is needed for the torrent client. If you use it with the arr programs, you will probably be blocked by anything that’s behind cloudflare.

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?

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.

Don’t leave cameras uncovered. Webcam covers are cheap. Tape works too.

There are some channels uploading several AI generated videos per hour 24/7. I’m surprised they don’t get banned.

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.

Your ISP has working battery backups. Don’t expect it to stay on for longer, widespread outages though. When the power is out for a week, satellite is usually the only thing that will still work.

ISPs that still provide DSL, really don’t want to put any effort into maintaining their equipment these days. They probably stopped replacing the batteries a long time ago.

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.