well, I managed to upgrade from 16.04 to 22.04 without any major issues

When I was younger, you’d still buy games in a physical store and one time I found a great sounding game “Fury” (an online PvP RPG). I went ahead and bought it with my pocket money and was super eager to play it. I even remember reading the booklet in the car while driving home, imagining how fun that game will be.

At home I then installed the game just to find out the the fuckers have shut down the game servers just about 2 years after the initial release of the game rendering the game absolutely unplayable.

I’m still kinda pissed about that, and I still have that box lying around somewhere.

I’ve got a Pulse 15 for a few years now and I’m very happy with it. The keyboard is not the best, but I can live with that.

The Pulse is based on some Clevo machine, you might want to look at what the Stellaris is based on to find more reviews.

I remember around the same time we had a 300 MB monthly quota on dialup. It made me very wary of what I did online and how large different kinda of media is.

Things changed a bit after we got a 4(?)GB monthly quota over 3G a few years later.

In kdenlive, the following settings work well for me (you can transfer the options to ffmpeg cli as well if you prefer that):

f=matroska movflags=+faststart vcodec=libx264 tune=stillimage progressive=1 g=1000 bf=2 crf=%quality acodec=flac ar=48000

For reference, I get a 3.7 GB video with a duration of over 5 h @4k resolution. The audio itself is already 3.7 GB and it’s just a still image. For CRF, set something around 23, that should do.

Something like a ASRock 4x4 with a 5800U should draw about 10W in idle, but you can certainly shut it off when you’re not watching. I use a small tower because it also holds some storage for my home NAS and jellyfin server.

Dumb TV+(mini)PC is the way

I don’t know what you’re trying to do but the easiest thing would be a bash script you would run after installation which does everything you want to change if it’s just some setting and packages

Possibly a kernel issue?

I know you said you’re too lazy to switch to a different brewing app, but you should really check out kleiner Brauhelfer

If you’re coming from Windows, or like the windows look then I’d recommend trying the cinnamon flavor of Ubuntu (or straight up Linux Mint which is also Ubuntu based).