Libreoffice Draw is the best option. You need to make sure all of the fonts used in the PDF are installed on your computer before editing it. The embedded fonts can’t be used for editing. If you are missing a font, Draw will try to find a substitute, which will most likely mess up the spacing. You can go to File->Properties in a PDF viewer like Okular or Xreader to get a list of the fonts that the PDF uses.

Most PDFs aren’t intended to be edited. The incorrect text splits are an issue caused by the program that created the PDF.

Do they need to play on a set top DVD player? If they are going to be played on a computer, you can reencode to a modern codec and burn them as data DVDs.

That’s the best way. It just adds a ReplayGain tag to the files instead of reencoding them at a different volume.

The battery issue was solved over 50 years ago. They used to just make them nuclear powered.

Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.

Backblaze personal doesn’t support Linux or BSD, so it would be useless for a NAS.

My last two phones were around $250 and have done everything I need. They have SD card slots, headphone jacks and physical sim cards which the higher end phones are lacking. I don’t care about camera quality. I have a nice DSLR if I need good pictures.

There’s no way I would ever pay $1300 for a phone. I could buy a new HF radio for that, use it for 20 years then sell it for more that half of that. The phone will be worthless after a couple of years.

Normal blurays are easy to rip. The 4k ones need a drive with hacked firmware.

Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore. That means you will only be able to connect to people that do have port forwarding.

There is NetSurf, Dillo, Links and W3M.

Charge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.

Nickel iron is typically used for off grid solar energy storage. Weight doesn’t matter at all since the battery won’t be moved. The most important thing is lifetime. Traditional nickel iron batteries last for decades and can be refurbished.

UPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.

It would work fine without Cloudflare. The server is running the current version of OpenBSD, so it could be configured to safely host a website without any tunnels.

Mumble will do all of that except screen sharing. Only the server has to deal with NAT.

UHD bluray uses H.265. That’s one of the best codecs available right now. AV1 can do a bit better for certain content, but it’s not a huge difference. Basically nothing supports H.266 yet and AV2 is still in development.

Don’t rely on the VPN kill switch for torrenting. It’s not fast enough to prevent your IP from leaking if the VPN disconnects. The torrent client needs to be bound to the VPN interface. Transmission doesn’t have an option to do that, so you would have to run it in a container instead.

You could use it as a system monitor display or something. People have been adding small secondary displays to their computers for a long time. Back in the day, we would connect HD44780 character LCDs to the parallel port. There was even a Linux kernel driver for it.

Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.