Made me think of the first season of Halt and Catch Fire.

Pretty sure they'd take everything you just wrote and say, "that sounds like critical race theory, which Jesus said was bad."

Shudder. I had this weird brand laptop... Sotec IIRC and there just wasn't a modline that ever got it all right.

Xserver... Somehow trying to find the magic string of letters and numbers that made your screen work.

Similar boat. Getting my snoring looked into. Got a sleep study done and now I'm having an ent do a scoping to see what's actually vibrating and what can be done.

The trouble for me was always getting people to use the controllers. I had some success with some family members using bubbleupnp on their Android phones. But the separation between sources, renderers and controllers is a little confusing for non technical people

DLNA is going to be your best bet, but it's such a deep and convoluted rabbit hole. There's a lot of ways to configure a setup.

Source for that last one? I have some in laws I'd like to pass the reference to.

Ubiquiti unifi g4 doorbell works great for me with home assistant. But it's a bit of an upgrade as you would need all the supporting hardware as well.

Lemmiversary?

They have a browser plug-in. I use it on Firefox on my desktop and on my Android phone. My uses it on Chrome on both as well.