Yep, the other comment is even more ChatGPT-ish. And the account was created today. Guess that’s a bot.

Take that as you will, but you sound like ChatGPT.

well, I managed to upgrade from 16.04 to 22.04 without any major issues

I’ve got a Pulse 15 for a few years now and I’m very happy with it. The keyboard is not the best, but I can live with that.

The Pulse is based on some Clevo machine, you might want to look at what the Stellaris is based on to find more reviews.

might as well cut up old yogurt containers

In kdenlive, the following settings work well for me (you can transfer the options to ffmpeg cli as well if you prefer that):

f=matroska movflags=+faststart vcodec=libx264 tune=stillimage progressive=1 g=1000 bf=2 crf=%quality acodec=flac ar=48000

For reference, I get a 3.7 GB video with a duration of over 5 h @4k resolution. The audio itself is already 3.7 GB and it’s just a still image. For CRF, set something around 23, that should do.

Something like a ASRock 4x4 with a 5800U should draw about 10W in idle, but you can certainly shut it off when you’re not watching. I use a small tower because it also holds some storage for my home NAS and jellyfin server.

Dumb TV+(mini)PC is the way

I know you said you’re too lazy to switch to a different brewing app, but you should really check out kleiner Brauhelfer