What I'm unsure about is if it's just IOUs (Investor Owned Utilities) that are increasing electricity prices, or if municipal providers are doing it too. IOUs use every excuse to increase their prices, including in cases where their costs don't increase that much.
Try install a web server like Nginx. I think the Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, so sudo apt install nginx should work. Then hit the Pi's address (no port number needed) and it should show a default page.
If you want to play files over SMB, you can just open the SMB mount in the file explorer and double click it. On Windows you can mount it as a network drive (like V: for videos) so even non-technical users understand it. I don't understand how mpv is easier for that use case.
With systems like Jellyfin and Plex, you can (and should!) turn off transcoding when streaming at home. The only times you should enable transcoding are when:
You're away from home on a slow internet connection (or your home internet has slow upload speed); or
You're streaming to a less powerful device that can't handle the full bitrate of the video.
Transcoding is very useful, because otherwise you'd need multiple copies of the same movie to handle different environments. Transcoding can dynamically adjust the bitrate based on the connection speed.
If they want to try new distros, maybe try Fedora with KDE? Installing the Nvidia drivers isn't too difficult.
For RTX 20 series and above, it's recommended to use Nvidia's open-source drivers. The instructions for how to switch on Fedora are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open. Note that this is not Nouveau, which is a different open-source Nvidia driver not made by Nvidia themselves.
I'm 95% sure the settlement with the publishers would have included a clause requiring the Internet Archive to delete all "infringing" material in their possession.
My dishwasher has a built-in red LED at the bottom that shines onto the ground. It turns on when it starts, and turns off when it's done. That's been good enough for me. Yours is definitely fancier though!
I always use wireless charging, and have a silicone plug in my phone's USB port to stop dirt getting in there. Very similar to these: https://a.co/d/aFWuSI3 (just standalone plugs with no adhesive). I see some in the photo with adhesive to stick them to the phone, but that seems like it'd look ugly.
In the rare case that I need to plug something into it, the port is completely clean.
I have mixed feelings. I'm glad they survived the lawsuits, and now they can spend their funding on their actual goals rather than it going towards lawyers.
On the other hand, it's really sad that they had to delete so much of their archive - over half a million books, and a bunch of recordings from their Great 78 Project (which was archiving 300k+ music albums released between ~1900 and 1950). A lot of the things that can't be archived are eventually going to become lost media.
Isn't this what they're attempting to do, at least partially? Most of the big tech companies are funding development of nuclear power plants.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/google-to-fund-elementl-to-prepare-three-nuclear-power-sites
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/meta-signs-nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation-energy-.html
What I'm unsure about is if it's just IOUs (Investor Owned Utilities) that are increasing electricity prices, or if municipal providers are doing it too. IOUs use every excuse to increase their prices, including in cases where their costs don't increase that much.