I am pretty certain my Audi 80 from 1994 doesn’t know anything about me. Can’t opt out, if it doesn’t collect anything.

What F-droid Version are you using? On the recommended version the downgrade button is still there.

I dont know how much information a SmartWatch can send to thier mother company without the proprietary app. But I’d suggest you use gadgetbridge to syc it to your phone.

https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge/

It’s open source and I bet there’s some way to hook it up to your NAS.

*edit Be sure to check compatibility with your watch before buying they have a list here: https://gadgetbridge.org/

Maybe that is interesting for you? https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions (Found it from here) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

Allright, my promised update: My Ram finally arrived and I happily put in the 8gb and… It went all south. Horrible boot time, bad performance the whole 9yards. Bios (thank you HP) didn’t even let me change the clockspeed of my ram. Anyways since I wanted to give my Wifes Laptop (her active one) an upgrade anyway I got the 8gb ram in her machine and that one works like a charm (-windows). So I had 4 gb left now (from her machine). Well, I stuck that one in this linux machine and they now play nicely.

So all in all a great success story! Thank you for encouraging me to upgrade it!

That looks Amazing!

I’ve looked up a video, took it apart, got it all together again. Tried booting it up, paniced for 2 seconds because it couldn’t detect the hard drive anymore, then realised that I had forgotten to plug the drive back in properly (silly me). Opened it up again, got the lill cable back where it belongs and screwed everything together (again). Works like a charm now.

Thats a very creative way of using old Laptop parts where I would probably not manage to pull one of them off. I have already ordered 8gb of ram and a 500gb SSD to give it a few more years of life.

I have ordered a 500gb SSD and 8gb of ram (gddr3) All in a a pretty cheap upgrade.

I ordered the parts now, a 8gb ram stick (gddr3) and a 520gb ssd for all in all 34€. The parts should arrive in about 2 weeks. Thank you!

Can confirm: after the 6th tab while shopping for upgrades everything went to slow motion.

That sounds quite intriguing, I’ll shop around and give you an update!

Thats the system overwatch: