first of all, you’re awesome, that’s some excellent writeup, may your pillow always be cool. second - it worked! well, I just opened a coupla torture sites but zero stutters, pitch shifts, everything is smooth.

for posterity, that stuff goes in ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-the-quantum.conf

thanks, here for these things. ran dawarich for a week and it was a disaster, willing to try again.

here’s a thread where most of these make an appearance: https://defcon.social/@yuman/117496056470116333

no, it’s -b, for “battery”.

you’re looking for capacity (or energy-full and energy-full-design, on which this is based off) which should tell you how much of the original capacity is available, anything north of 90% is awesome, 80+% is usable, anything below 70% only if it’s super-cheap, as a stop-gap.

• t480 - dual RAM slots, dual batteries
• t480s/t490s/t14s - soldered ram
• t490/t14 - one bank soldered, one slot free

this is the list, nothing else, no Yogas, no Carbons. stay away from AMD models until the 5000-series, all earlier ones are a nuisance to run. feel free to get busted units - broken screen, bad keyboard, as working on those is easy, there are detailed hardware maintenance manuals available, for free and parts are cheap, plentiful and cross-model/generation compatible.

soldered RAM used be eww; nowadays with the prices, it’s neat to get basically free RAM, provided it’s at least 16 GB on-board. whichever you get will be plenty fine for the stated use cases. make sure you get a good battery, as getting those is expensive (boot off a live USB and upower -b)

remember, the goal isn’t to get “a thinkpad”. the goal is to get extraordinary value, in this case a discarded corpo workhorse that’s still got plenty life in it, at a bargain price. if you’re in an area where the stated models are plentiful and cheap, grab one. if they’re overpriced, look for value elsewhere. e.g. Dell Latitude 74xx and HP Elitebook 840 are in the same ballpark.

samba shares are windows shares, on linux. any os, mobile and desktop, can either access them directly or got a light-weight client for doing so.

you set up one or multiple shares on your server, like one is “family” and other is “steve” and you can define what each user can do to them - just browse, or read, or write to, etc

or if you need just a read-only share, any web server (apache, nginx, etc) can allow access to a folder you shared.

what’s “family members”, are those folks on your LAN? or people on mobile devices or from elsewhere?

if it’s the former, samba shares are easy. the latter, any number of solutions listed here, provided you pay extra, extra attention to firewalls and other mitigations, it’s hell out there wrt automated bots hammering exposed endpoints.

• I’d strongly advise you to stay clear of elementaryOS, at least as a first step. after you figure things out with a more vanilla flavor, feel free to revisit it. there’s enough challenges with taming that hardware with vanilla flavors, you don’t need additional ones
• these aren’t important messages, if you want to look at what’s happening, press “e” on the GRUB menu and remove quiet from the switches edit: those are EFI messages, that’s not linux stuff. make sure your USB drive is GPT formatted and after you’ve flashed it verify there’s an efi folder on it. reboot, press and hold Alt until the menu shows.
• you’re booting with Nvidia graphics. those are abject horror in the best of cases, and yours (GT330M) is beyond saving. you should disable it as you’ll get nothing but grief and run it on Intel HD graphics only, here’s a primer.

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yeah. create a 8gb partition on the new drive, format it as fat32.

copy the ISO’s contents (not the ISO, its contents) to the 8gb partition. shut down when done.

optional, disconnect the windows drive so you don’t fuck it up.

power on, press whatever the key is for the boot menu for your UEFI. it should list the installer as a boot option. hit that.

final step, equally important. when the GRUB menu appears, press “e” on the menu item and find the linux kernel switches (where it says “quiet splash” etc) and add toram (debian/ubuntu) or rd.live.ram (fedora). this will boot the image to ram. so when you start the installer you can select wipe & use whole disk.

suerte!

edit: this assumes you’re doing it on a EFI/UEFI system, which is any board/laptop after 2012.

littlefedi is out as of coupla days ago. still in early stage but should cover your use case. local binary, world comms via “lighthouses” don’t need domain, vps, etc. there’s something strange afoot wrt the author’s willingness to be forthcoming about the project’s provenance. I’d stay clear for the time being.

go to gsmarena and filter phones by chipset. select something like Snapdragon 845, a widely supported SoC that is at the cross-section of hella old i.e. cheap but also super capable; it’s doubtful you’ll ever need anything faster than that. then see which of the filtered models you can get for cheap. finally go over to lineageOS and see if it’s got current support.

that’s a hella rad machine to convert because of something so easily fixable. could be due to a loose cable, or needs a new panel; provided it ain’t of the ultra-spensive variety, 2nd hand laptop panels can be had for like $20-50 from your local junker. short of that, converting it to a full desktop would be the next best use case. using a hexacore ryzen with 3050ti as “media PC” is fucking bonkers, a potato can handle that.

when I was running my Oneplus 6T with a heavily degraded battery on pmOS, I got days of standby out of it, while Android couldn’t last 12 hours. in both cases I ran it without modem/cell connectivity, just wifi. degoogled android, no microG no nothing. still, no way it could do sunrise to sundown.

on pmOS, when I press the power button, the thing went into standby. didn’t do shit in the background nobody asked it to, didn’t sync to no clown, nothing. for me that was perfect. your use case might be different.

you can load any live USB to RAM, if you got enough of it. use rd.live.ram (fedora) or toram (debian/ubuntu) and you can remove the USB afterwards and have a superfast “install”

bluetooth remote controls, I run a NOCTUS. apple IR ones (the little white ones from the iPod days) with IR receiver out of a defunct Macbook (those are USB). game controllers, any kind.

Jellyfin player’s UI in TV mode reacts only to up/down/left/right and enter and escape. you can use InputRemapper if your weapon of choice isn’t recognized. also, jellyfin android apps connect to the player directly and you can control it from there.

fine learning experience, but this thing does nothing you’d use your TV for.

the cheapest and best solution is to grab a busted-up laptop from your marketplace. broken screens, keyboards, missing batteries, whatever, you won’t use none of those things. make sure it’s skylake (6th gen) or newer for hardware video acceleration and on-board LAN and HDMI, the rest is unimportant. you’ll have an insanely powerful and power-efficient platform that you control 100% of and can tweak to your heart’s desire, expand, fix, etc. I’d be surprised if you can’t find several for under $40, power brick included.

my go-to setup is auto-launching jellyfin player in TV mode with macast running in the background (DLNA sink you can send youtube videos and the like). since you’ll have computing power to spare, this can also be a server, whatever you desire.

this used to be a job for raspberries, but them things are insanely expensive now and necessitate ever more expensive shit. please don’t even joke about letting noname android boxes loose on your LAN.

I imagine most people here already know this, but - you don’t really need anything but git installed on the server. you can create a repo, push to it, pull off it, branch, merge, do whatever you can with the cli, all that web GUI is just optional. integrates just fine with vscode and clones.

so if you don’t need a web UI, a truly lightweight solution is already preinstalled.

this concerns both btrfs and zram, so this would be a huge boost?

the video blows, dude. jolla are opensource takers, they don’t have a free tier so you can’t just install it and take it for a spin. so an actual “here’s how it works” video is beneficial.

my contention is that sailfish should be the next thing, after wrangling it out of the hands of those fucks. not forked android, not tweaked gnome shell on postmarketos.

this video wastes time on converting imaginary people over who don’t know they’re being spied on (the three hour long, or so it felt, intro with pichai and friends) showing ubuntu touch (wtf) and the presenter’s face in the frame for what feels like 90% of the video.

this is a shit video on its own and especially for the target audience here.