If by 'Experience' you mean the UI, I really like LibreTube. As you already said, personalized recommendations will only work with the 'proper' YouTube app. In that case I'd suggest looking into ReVanced. Afaik it doesn't improve privacy, but it does revert some of the stupid changes YouTube has made over the years.

Same! I'm lowkey tempted to get a fancy one now, but deep down I know it just isn't worth it.

https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

I use this app for scanning documents, I just tried sharing a picture to the app and running OCR on that picture, which also worked fine, so it should also fit your usecase.

Damn even though you explained the abbreviation I still read it as Wife Approval Factor for a second and was very confused

If you care to minimize Standby power "comfortably", usually libraries or power companies will let you borrow an AC Power Meter free of charge.

You can use that to inspect your various devices Standby Power. For example I have an amplifier that pulls nearly 15W in standby, since finding out it lives on a smart plug.

However my TV pulls less than 1W, and at that point I prefer the convenience of just being able to use the remote to turn it on.

(Also keep in mind with the smart plug solution that the plug itself will pull a little bit of power too, this will pretty much always be <1W though.)

I don't know how it works in America, but in Germany and presumably most parts of Europe, red light cameras are triggered by coils under the road (similar to speed cameras). There's usually one coil right past the stopping line (for cars being halfway over) and another coil somewhere closer to the center of the intersection (for fully running a red light).

If your hate only goes towards touchscreens and not having physical buttons, Mazda is (or at least was) very anti-touchscreen. I haven't done any research on their current stance or if they have good EVs, but a neighbor of mine was really happy with his Mazda ICE car for having a button for everything.

It's not a full car or even entertainment system, but comma.ai is an opensource autonomous driving software. Last time I looked into this was a few years ago, but basically for most newer cars you can rip out the adaptive cruise control, and effevtively replace it with autonomous driving. Either powered by certain supported phones or dedicated hardware.

I can one-up that: I bought Java Edition around 2016, claimed the free Bedrock license in 2017, then claimed the other license for each of my original licenses when the accounts merged. I'm still surprised that that worked lol

In that case you can try adding before:2023 or similar to your search

You could try getting a Raspberry Pi Zero together with some kind of SPDIF output card, but that will probably go over $30.

I have no idea what pricing is like, but you could possibly try getting a used Logitech Squeezebox player.

If you're desperate to stay on the cheap and don't mind BT quality, you could also install Snapcast on an old phone, enable the Snapcast player provider and then use the phone to connect to your speakers over Bluetooth.

Imo it looks to be very bloated for what I want. I don't need (or necessarily want) a GPS track for the whole journey, but rather just start and endpoint. I intend to tell the distance from my cars odometer.

Also I already started making my own app by now anyway and I'm far too committed to consider other options lol

I'd recommend the Sony Xperia lineup, but it seems as though the IV and V devices aren't supported by LineageOS (maybe just not yet?).

The Sony Xperia 1 III or 5 III might be fitting for you though.

Hm using Tasker for this is actually a really good idea, thanks!

Under the hood it's also way more similar: LibreOffice uses the odt format internally (and converts docx to it on the fly, sometimes leading to some formatting weirdness). OnlyOffice on the other hand uses docx internally, meaning better compatibility with MS Office (but also some weirdness with odt files).

(I've used docx and odt as placeholders for all the other formats here, like pptx, xlsx, etc.)

I bought an LG TV, connected it to the internet once to download Jellyfin, blocked internet access directly after.

If you're cool with connecting it to the internet once, I'd recommend LG, the Magic Remote is light years ahead of the competition.

Other than that, just get any OLED TV and don't give it internet access (or one of the new QD-OLEDs if you have the money for it).

I presume your phone can't enter deepsleep if it's not in Standby. I'm not that knowledgeable on that topic but another point (that might be practically the same thing) is AFAIK your CPU and GPU can't shutdown, as your phone is still on and rendering a black image.

Wait InnerTune is abandoned?? That's a bummer, imo it is literally the best music app, especially the caching is amazing.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just "modernized" Tetris music).

The newer Sony Xperias sound like a good fit for you. I haven't used one myself, but they're pretty decent from what I can gather.

Also it seems as if Sony is the only phone manufacturer shipping flagships with headphone jacks and SD card slots.

On another note, I highly recommend the GSMarena Phone Finder for getting a general selection of phones that have the features you care about.