EmptyRadar

Best thing to do is use an external monitor. You can connect the phone via whatever USB interface it has - there are cheap USB to HDMI adapters on Amazon which should do the trick.

Yep, there was a time when streaming services actually became easier than piracy. That was when there was basically just Netflix and Hulu. If you had both of those, you had everything.

Honest question: why?

Type C headphones could easily be a thing (and are already). Then you just have the one port, which to me seems better.

Transparency: I’m someone who just uses Bluetooth headphones and I love them, so I have no real horse in this race. I just like not catching a cord on doorknobs anymore, lol

This is tech journalism now? Might as well have had ChatGPT write the article too…what a waste of time

Although, ironically, generated garbage is virtually worthless for SEO.

It helps to separate the technology from the companies. We don’t need Google, Amazon, or any other company to make use of network connected technology. It doesn’t have to be internet-connected, either. You can have a completely automated home with no more risk of intrusion than a standard locked door already has from a well-placed boot.

Damn they won’t make me magnetic? That would be useful, I could avoid dropping screws and bits every time I do a project.

One other solution to throw into the ring - delete the contact and re-enter it as a “phone only” contact. That way it’s not connected to her Google services whatsoever.

Hey, just a heads up - you can easily install a profanity filter extension on just about any browser, mobile or otherwise. Here’s an example for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-profanity-filter/piajkpdbaniagacofgklljacgjhefjeh

That way you don’t have to see stuff you don’t want to, but also don’t have to attempt to modify the way other people speak to suit your desires.

I have:

-Netflix (included w/ phone plan)
-Hulu + Disney + ESPN (bundle)
-Shudder
-CuriosityStream / Nebula
-Spotify

Then I have my own personal Jellyfin server for everything else.

I’m also a 7T user. The thing I expect to miss the most is the pop up front facing camera, that still feels cool as hell.

Back in the ancient Greek era there were people worried that printed books were going to rot peoples’ minds because they would just be absorbed in them 24/7.

Do what you wanna do, dude.

Nice - yeah, the API is just a convenient way to access the data. The truth is that if a browser can view reddit.com, a script can pull the data and put it somewhere else.

Personally, I’m working on a script to scrape certain subs every few days and display them in a page I’m self-hosting. Who needs their API? All I really care about over there anymore is tech related info I need for my job.

You could probably do this yourself with a decent copy of the movie, just turn off the audio channel for the music.

Seconding - you can actually squeeze a surprising amount of use out of a Pi4 running Docker.

After many years of tinkering, I finally gave in and converted my whole stack over to UnRAID a few years ago. You know what? It’s awesome, and I wish I had done it sooner. It automates so many of the more tedious aspects of home server management. I work in IT, so for me it’s less about scratching the itch and more about having competent hosting of services I consider mission-critical. UnRAID lets me do that easily and effectively.

Most of my fun stuff is controlled through Docker and VMs via UnRAID, and I have a secondary external Linux server which handles some tasks I don’t want to saddle UnRAID with (PFSense, Adblocking, etc). The UnRAID server itself has 128GB RAM and dual XEON CPUs, so plenty of go for my home projects. I’m at 12TB right now but I was just on Amazon eyeing some 8TB drives…

This exact situation is why I eventually shut down access to my media server to only my household. I had the same setup for many years and it just got to be a clusterfuck of people messaging me that things were broken, not working how they wanted, need to have more features, aren’t working fast enough, etc. I work in IT. I get enough of that when I’m clocked in, I don’t need it at home too.

Good luck though, OP.

AudioBookShelf is awesome for audiobooks. I can’t speak to its capability as an eReader but I thought I’d throw that out there for anyone wanting a second opinion. I use it daily and the Android app is great too. My go-to audiobook server for life if it stays just like it is right now.

I’ll second Ubooquity. I have a lot of experience with this, as I’ve been self-hosting my eBooks and Audiobooks for many years now. Ubooquity is not perfect, but if you’re willing to tinker with it, you can get it set up pretty nicely. There are themes, and the Plex theme actually makes it look really slick.

Kavita is the new kid on the block for me - I have been testing it out as a general-purpose eReader but I’m not ready to give it my recommendation yet.