Hardcore nerds use TeX but if I understand your question, you probably want LibreOffice. I’m unfamiliar with OnlyOffice so ok, maybe that’s good too.

I haven’t had trouble with 3rd party batteries but there’s a combination of FUD and legitimate scare stories about them. For cylindrical cells, the really cheap ones are crap and this can be detect by X-ray:

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/lumafield-shows-why-your-cheap-18650-cells-are-terrible/

IDK if there’s a similar deal with pouch cells.

Generally, replace your battery at below 50%. At 68% I’d keep using it. Maybe add a power bank if you want to keep going for longer. If 68% isn’t enough to get through your day, then 100% is at best sort of marginal.

Laptops nowadays almost always use pouch cells.

I generally get stuff from porkbun.com since I’ve been there for a while, prices are decent and they have some convenient features. But, I should try namecrane.com since they are run by online buddies of mine. They are sort of a spin-off of the original buyvm.net.

Price comparator: https://tld-list.com/

Yes they separate out renewal prices so make sure to take that into consideration. The high renewal prices are a marketing trick of the TLD holders. The resellers can’t really do anything about them.

Actually it’s much worse than a few exploding trees. In August 2026, Earth will lose gravity for 7 seconds due to something something. NASA and the MSN are covering it up. Here in California we generally have furniture anchor straps in case of earthquakes, so we can use those to avoid floating away. People in other places should look into taking similar precautions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/earth-science/will-earth-really-lose-gravity-for-7-seconds-on-8-12-26-nasa-rumor-exposed/ar-AA1U7olV

/joke

Resistance mantra: “OHM!!!”

I guess it’s cool, but why not a regular display? The LED array’s 2:1 aspect ratio (128x64) is kind of constraining.

That sounds like a windows application she wants to run? Ok but why the rest of the stuff? I set up Debian+MATE (windows-like window manager) for my mom to replace her old Windows box and she didn’t notice the difference.

Alexa Home Microphone. They mis-named it as a “home speaker” but actual home speakers have been around for 100+ years. They originally looked like this:

There’s hardware that works under Linux, hardware that doesn’t work, and hardware that sort-of-works or is marginal. Lots of graphics cards are in the marginal or don’t-work category. I always try to avoid them. Maybe that’s not much help. If you’re on a desktop PC, your CPU is likely to have some graphics support of its own: can you bypass or pull out the graphics card? They are mostly for gaming. For normal desktop stuff you should be ok without it.

A dream of a Linux distribution where the entire desktop environment is Win32 software running under WINE.

Sounds like a nightmare to me. Why would anyone want that?

There’s no ruling yet, just some tea leaves. Bad headline.

They wanted to make the phones thinner and also sell replacement phones sooner. Blame Apple.

Airplane mode might be enough to shut off the radios in a phone that old. Also the 3G network is basically shut down now. So it’s a matter of just how careful you want to be. You might be able to use some kind of field strength meter to tell if the phone is still sending any radio signals.

IDK if there are many of those things still being made, but sure, if there’s any private info on the player and you’re trying to be ultra careful, then get one without Bluetooth. I can also imagine (IDK if this has actually been done) someone using a bluetooth attack to turn the player into an audio bug from (say) the next room.

Players do tend to have built in microphones so you can use them as audio recorders. I had (and mostly still have) a bunch of different ones, though they were audio only and not video, or at any rate had tiny screens. There are tons of them on ebay.

If you’re going to carry a big player with video and an ebook reader, why not just take your phone? Put it in a mode that blocks all calls. Or get another phone and use it with no sim and turn off the wifi. Then you can run your usual audio and video players. Dedicated players were once popular but now are very niche, since everyone uses their phone now.

FIIO makes some good ones if you still want to shop around.

I used to watch one with Adam West and Burt Ward playing the vigilantes, but the grit and realism of that show got to me after a while.

Star Trek TOS, “A Taste of Armageddon”?

Yes, it even has a lifetime warranty.

You mean “unread”? I see, maybe blocked or /ignore or whatever it’s called on Discord. I don’t think I’d date a Discord user either, so it’s ok.

Ehh still seems useless, they then just have to age the accounts before posting. One thing I’d want to know is of those posts are in topic areas that anyone would want to influence surreptitiously.