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SearXNG is in the picture and it's one of the 3 recommended.

They mention they're only doing things locally, and looking into using tailscale, so they aren't exposing to public web and the security concerns you mention are a lot less important.

Windows 10 long term servicing channel. It's intended for things like electronic signs but works great if you just want un bloated windows. It comes with most of the random bullshit not installed and has a longer period of security updates.

Hardware whitelist is unholy

People 'know' how to use Microsoft products. I'm a data guy and might spend less than a day a week in word, PowerPoint, excel. Most of the time I spend in them is checking other people's work. I'm still called on to help people with such tasks as switching from footnotes to endnotes, moving files in SharePoint, fixing formatting. My general knowledge of navigating the UI and googling fixes is better than what people 'know'.

Yeah you're correct. The person you're replying to is treating dictionary attacks as separate from brute forcing. Dictionary attacks are great on short passwords using likely words, but as soon as you use 2 or 3 or 4 words it becomes computationally unfeasible. I would say a completely random string of the same or much less length is more secure because a dictionary attack won't work at all, but 3-4 word passphrases are excellent for passwords that you have to manually enter ever.

It's massive because of context. Massive is inherently a comparative term. Something can't be large or significant unless something else is small. Here the context is performance gains (in comparison to other forms of PC gaming) constrained by 1) being on exactly the same hardware 2) a sizeable price difference between the two options.

Here the performance gains are 10+% for a device which costs more than 10% less. The size of the performance gains in the handheld market would otherwise need you to buy a new handheld, and those fps increases would demand spending at least a few hundred bucks on a new GPU.

So massive performance gains with the implied context is absolutely true.

I think they're saying they've already signed into a Google account, downloaded play store apps, and set everything up. Afterwards, they have disconnected the Chromecast from the internet and successfully continued to access their self hosted content.

Oh! Appreciate the tip. I'll investigate this weekend

No worries! I've used the calibre app for ebooks in the past and it does quite well.

I use the Audiobookshelf app from AdvPlyr on the play store. I've been meaning to try Lissen since it's on F-Droid, but I tried this to make sure my partner didn't have any issues.

If I'm using it on my PC I just connect to the web UI.

I connect on all my devices with tailscale. My partner uses the same but has apparently been having issues with her phone not being able to access the tailnet when not on the same LAN. It's not so bad though, the Audiobookshelf app lets her download her books. This works better anyway, since she travels for work and often has no service anyway.

I use abs and it's great. My partner listens to audiobooks, I read ebooks. You just have them side by side in the library, and in the audiobookshelf android app you can choose between stream or read. You also don't need to store them side by side, the metadata can put them together clientside anyway. I guess this would be the way to go if you thought you might try a diff ebook hosting service later.

If all you do with your ebooks is read them, I daresay you'll have no issues because I haven't. Supports volume controls for page turn and that's all that I want.