The only real solution is to always keep your source files. PDFs are not intended to be edited.

I just keep all of my music in an NFS share on my NAS and play it with Rhythmbox or VLC. I keep a compressed copy on the SD card in my phone to listen to when I’m not home.

I ran Damn Small Linux on it about 15 years ago. That worked pretty well and it would even run a web browser. It would probably boot Tiny Core Linux, but there wouldn’t be much RAM left to run any programs. The motherboard supports 128MB, but it’s not really worth the cost to upgrade it though.

I may see about resurrecting that computer. I’ve got an old Motorola police radio that I would like to reprogram to operate in the 2M ham band and I think that PC will run the programming software.

Don’t install their apps either unless it’s on an old phone that you’ve wiped all of your personal data from.

That’s what I’ve been using lately. It prints great at 300 mm/s. It’s reasonably strong and doesn’t string much as long as it’s dry.

It’s certainly not an ideal solution, but it’s an option that will usually work.

I’ve used Optar. It works a lot better than just printing some QR codes. It fits 188 KiB on a sheet of letter sized paper after error correction. It does require a laser printer and a flat bed scanner though.

There are HDMI splitter boxes you can get from China that conveniently strip out the HDCP.

He should hook that control panel up to an emulator and make it work again.

If you only need 2D, there is LibreCAD.

I’ve run Linux on a 166MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM. There’s not much modern software that will run on that hardware though.

At least with TV, you could tape your shows and fast forward through the commercials.

That’s a very good deal if it’s working.

Maybe people will start torrenting youtube rips if they somehow manage to kill ad blockers.

The power usage will be a bit higher, but it will also have higher performance. They can have 2.5G ethernet and a couple of NVMe SSDs. The Raspberry Pi 5 only has one lane of PCIe 2.0, so it will be very bandwidth limited if you use a PCIe switch to connect a 2.5G NIC and an SSD.

There are also a lot of mini PCs that are comparable in price to a Raspberry Pi 5 once you factor in the cost of a case, SD card, and power supply for the Pi.

Make sure you have a font installed that supports emoji such as the Noto emoji font.

The goal is to get away from US tech companies.

I installed some CAT6a years ago so I could upgrade and I’m still on 1G. I should have looked at the power requirements first. The hardware that was affordable at the time used 10 watts per port to run 10G over copper. I should have run fiber too.

What’s the battery life like? High power consumption has been one of the major issues with previous Linux phones.