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.

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.

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.

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.

Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.

Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.

It’s also most certainly against the terms of service for your ISP, VPN or VPS, so you could get your service terminated.

Running something like this will put a big target on your back. I hope you have your network locked down tight.

I’ve been using their access points for a long time. They have been working quite well. I do have an old WiFi 5 AP that’s starting to fail, but that’s not too surprising considering the age.

I’ve just been running the controller with a local account. Hopefully they won’t try to force me into using a cloud account.

If someone gets into your PC, you have much bigger problems than them reading the system logs.

That’s not too surprising considering it has an LiFePO4 battery. 500 cycles is nothing for those.

The clock is only useful if the time is correct. They could at least put a small super capacitor in there to keep the time during short power outages.

I wish they didn’t even have clocks. The darn thing resets every time there’s a big gust of wind.

Gaming on Linux has been really good for the last several years. The main issue is certain multiplayer games that intentionally block Linux users.

Nobara and Bazzite are gaming focused distributions, but they are both based on Fedora. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed will give you the lastest kernel version if you want a rolling release distro.

Mint has a software manager and you can also install Synaptic.

Gaming on Mint works fine, but it’s based on Ubuntu LTS releases, so you won’t have the latest kernel or mesa versions. If you’re using an RX 9000 series GPU, you should probably pick a distro with a newer kernel and mesa version to get the best performance.