Search still works and I can view the videos & channels I’ve bookmarked.

If they are based out of China, then Amazon won’t get a single cent out of them. They will be back up with a new name and website soon.

Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.

Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.

That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.

Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.

In Linux, the package manager will ask you if you want to install the dependencies. You don’t have to install them manually unless you’re compiling the program from source.

Hidden junk that a person wouldn’t see would likely be picked up by a screen reader. That would make the site much harder to use for a visually impaired person.

Charge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.

Nickel iron is typically used for off grid solar energy storage. Weight doesn’t matter at all since the battery won’t be moved. The most important thing is lifetime. Traditional nickel iron batteries last for decades and can be refurbished.

UPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.

It would work fine without Cloudflare. The server is running the current version of OpenBSD, so it could be configured to safely host a website without any tunnels.

Mumble will do all of that except screen sharing. Only the server has to deal with NAT.

UHD bluray uses H.265. That’s one of the best codecs available right now. AV1 can do a bit better for certain content, but it’s not a huge difference. Basically nothing supports H.266 yet and AV2 is still in development.

Don’t rely on the VPN kill switch for torrenting. It’s not fast enough to prevent your IP from leaking if the VPN disconnects. The torrent client needs to be bound to the VPN interface. Transmission doesn’t have an option to do that, so you would have to run it in a container instead.

You could use it as a system monitor display or something. People have been adding small secondary displays to their computers for a long time. Back in the day, we would connect HD44780 character LCDs to the parallel port. There was even a Linux kernel driver for it.

Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.

That worked when TV was analog and they were running megawatt transmitters. It doesn’t do so well with the low power digital stations unless you are close to the transmitters.

Definitely mods. You would get bored very quickly without them.

It weighs almost as much as my 14" laptop. They should split it into two pieces so you can mount the computer and battery to your belt.