You can typically replace the battery inside the UPS (and should every few years). Looking at $40-50USD for "official" replacements, less for questionable third party ones.
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Because as a headless server it's likely to sit hidden for a long time. This and the always being plugged in is not good for lithium-ion batteries. If/when it starts ballooning will you notice? It's a fire risk.
UPSes use typically lead-acid batteries like a car.
Modern Android TV box with a custom launcher. Apparently Projectivity launcher is decent.
But if you already have a Shield that's cool keep it until it stops working. I'm just not gonna tell anyone to go buy one.
Because it's end of lifespan and you should spend your money on something that will at least get a few years of support and updates
Yeah but I wouldn't recommend anyone go and buy one at this point.
Heck yeah. Not always the best for power efficiency though.
Old laptops also a great choice but I really recommend removing the battery first.
Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.
I don't know what's good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it's really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you're a bit technical and the "suggested content" of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.
Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.
To be fair even on a globe Greenland is still massive. Just not quite as bad on Mercator.
I find the easiest way to spot the quality difference is a dark scene. On streaming look at the dark areas. You'll likely see bands and patches of different levels of black if you pay attention.
Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.
4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.
I visited Cuba some months ago. Amazing what they can and have done better than supposedly "first world" countries like the US in terms of healthcare, houselessness, etc. Of course they also have many issues but almost all of them can be traced to the blockade.
The blockade is utterly indefensible. A crime against humanity.
Google gets to control the source code, what additions are added, and what features don't get into it.
Yes technically some organization could fork it and then maintain a fork themselves. But it's a huge undertaking that almost nobody has the money to fund. Browsers are free so there's really not a lot of monetization schemes for browsers.
So nobody as far as I know has really been able to maintain a hard fork of chromium for very long. Remember, every change you make then has to be maintained by you and then you have to keep it up to date with the chromium master tree while also keeping all of your changes compatible. It is a big undertaking almost as big as modern operating systems. Browsers are just too complicated so Google in this position does still have a monopoly that's very hard to fight.
Almost all browsers other than Safari and Firefox are based on Chromium, which gives Google a ton of control.