Dolby Atmos is a surround sound thing, not video. This sounds more like a video codec thing. What codec is your video using exactly? Can you provide the original release filename?

there are no (or are there?) PCs with other architectures than x86

ARM, as mentioned. and RISC-V

I’m not sure how you’d handle hardware in hardware.

Microcode is usually only run on the CPU, so in that case the implementation would be called “drivers”. If you ran it on the device it would be called “firmware” and the OS still has to know how it address its interfaces somehow, and implementation is again called a “driver”.

Outside the US, most carriers charged per text message, but basic data wasn’t usage-billed. You could send as many Whatsapp messages as you wanted.

The CPU might be the same, but the audio chip, trackpad, etc. might be different and require a new driver.

Pretty sure they still do, as long as you aren’t getting the cheap “everything controlled by one board” models (though the diagram might actually be in the service manual, not in the box).

Although there is still repairability. I repaired my TV by replacing the speakers. Some years ago I repaired my furnace by replacing the control board.

Something like a kettle makes more sense for being sealed, though, because it’s water and electricity.

Yes, whom was incorrect regardless. Who goes with he, whom goes with him. Who cannot be repaired? He cannot be repaired.

That’s true of all self-hosting.

Isn’t that marcan? There might not be much new content, since he quit the Asahi Linux project.

I barely noticed any change from 14. They changed the UI style slightly, especially in the settings menu, but nothing that really affects anything.

~150 inadvertent activations is pretty low for the number of devices times however many years it spans.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Per that article, it only happens when it thinks it’s been activated, and only when you opt in. Not much of a bombshell.

What format are the files? What are you using to view the thumbnails?

Like Whatsapp? I prefer to minimize the amount of data Facebook collects on me.

It is possible for the carrier to do it, though. Probably the OEM too, though I’ve been using Pixels for so long I don’t remember seeing it.

Refurb all, sell all but three, set up a cluster. Then when you’re satisfied, sell those three and use all the money to buy one or two systems with modern hardware.

You should be able to do HA with ceph, I think. You can do almost-HA with zfs mirrors, where instead of instant failover you only lose data up to the last mirror sync (a few minutes max).

On the other side, creators should be paid for their labor.

I don’t see privacy listed in your requirements so I’m not sure why you’ve posted here. Self hosting would be necessary for that in any case.

Teams would probably be the best option given your requirements. It does everything, and for the most part it just works. Sometimes it doesn’t, but when that happens, you’ve got entire departments at Microsoft working to fix it, as opposed to when a local service you’re at the mercy of the one guy who knows a bit about computers (or worse, his nephew).