Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you’d want to develop it.

Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They’ll often save you much more than they cost.

Steam Link works well if they’re still around.

I’ve heard of folding@home but haven’t really looked much into it.

No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.

I can’t imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.

Free*

*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs. *you can only play with four people *there is only a small set of prompts available

While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.

I’ve found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it’s gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I’d probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie

This is my setup too. I use WG-Tunnel to manage the VPN connection on my phone. It just monitors whenever you disconnect from your trusted WiFi network and automatically enables the VPN.

Only hiccup I’ve found is wireless Android Auto isn’t a fan of a VPN.

That little blue triangle in the top left is quite the turnoff.

I’ve had a flip phone for about 4 years (Z Flip 3 and Moto Razr 50 Ultra) and the crease is really not noticeable in normal use.

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There’s no helping this one.

The internet must be a miserable place for you.

Not that I’m familiar with. I would guess that the limited processing power of a phone would bring a pretty poor experience though.

There are quite a few options for running your own LLM. Ollama makes it fairly easy to run (with a big selection of models - there’s also Hugging Face with even more models to suit various use cases) and OpenWebUI makes it easy to operate.

Some self-hosting experience doesn’t hurt, but it’s pretty straightforward to configure if you follow along with Networkchuck in this video.

Except the hundreds of millions they have spent year after year since then.

I came across ryot a while ago but didn’t have a chance to really play with it. It might be useful for something like this though. Grocy is another that comes to mind.

Recent post from the Proton Reddit account: https://archive.ph/quYyb

Seems it’s not just the CEO’s personal opinion.

I see. That’s good to know, thanks.