Thinkcenter tiny, 4 external HDDs, a DAC, a raspi3b+, was like 25W I think.
I do this and just run Ubuntu on a Thinkcenter tiny.
Then this for input off the sofa.
I also put a few Braille dots on few buttons and glow in the dark paint on a few important dots to make it more usable which really works, Braille especially.
Then… A few bookmarks in the firefox, jellyfin, navidrome, Spotify, vlc/MPV from mounted NAS etc.
I don’t bother with any media/apps interface, I mostly see them as annoying and not needed with this KB/trackball setup.
Then…Bob’s your uncle!
VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.
Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc…
My nixpkgs list is something like
Admittedly I’ve never done it, but my 5mins of LLM’ing said chroot
is only needed when keeping chromeOS on the machine side by side.
Some reason I have Chromebook Lenovo Thinka Pad 11e saved in my notes
Iirc it’s something that isn’t too difficult to unlock and get Linux on it, otherwise I wouldn’t have considered it.
Copyq is now your friend.
If your workload doesn’t run well on a raspi you cannot use a raspi…
“Don’t always trust what you read on the internet.”
You want SMS but not Google. How does that line up?
Spying is OK, but not if it’s Google?
It’s not scary from the flags, but rather what is inside the tar/zip.