UHD is just a pain because it’s hard to find a compatible drive.

I’ve never had a normal bluray that I couldn’t rip with MakeMKV. It’s the UHD blurays that are a pain to rip.

It wouldn’t surprise me if that was the case when the satellite equipment was originally installed. SDRs only became available fairly recently. Before that, you would either have to have the knowledge and ability to build your own equipment or have a lot of money.

For email, you just pay for a host that will let you use your own domain. It’s usually a lot cheaper than getting a static IP and you can easily switch hosts while keeping your email address.

It’s not really even worth attempting to self host your own outbound email these days. It’s a lot of work getting the big email providers to accept your email and if someone has ever sent spam from your IP address, you are pretty much screwed.

The UK should just block sites that don’t comply. They have no business trying to fine US websites.

You don’t need any apps for that, you can just use a normal camera.

SoundConverter works great for batch conversions. It will convert multiple files at once to speed things up.

Opus is considered lossless transparent at 128k VBR, so it will use less than half the space of the 320k MP3s.

Don’t convert one lossy codec to another, it will just make it sound worse. You need to re rip them from the CDs or download them in FLAC.

I’ve been using KeePassXC. I use Syncthing to keep the database synchronized between computers.

Unfortunately still no support for my phone.

Yes there is. I was looking at the chart on my phone and missed it.

You should also list what providers allow P2P and what ones have port forwarding.

You can enable file versioning so deleted files will be kept for a set amount of time.

Office 2003 was the last usable version.

It’s a switch, there shouldn’t be anything to go obsolete.

AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.

The bubble will eventually burst and AI will mostly disappear.

There’s no online accounts needed for Linux.

The only thing they are good at doing is producing loads of RFI and pissing off every ham radio operator in the area.

That’s usually only an issue with color laser printers.

If you need more than just basic annotations, you can edit PDFs with LibreOffice Draw. PDFs aren’t intended to be editable, so nothing is going to be like editing the original document unless the PDF was created with LibreOffice and exported as a hybrid PDF.