I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.

Apology not needed.

I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).

A small number of informed users won’t disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I’m not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.

I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it’s more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.

Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol’ “vote with money” if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.

Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?

I don’t know if that’ll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.

TL;DR: Probably.

Some facts

• I did, in fact, come across a recipe shortly before I saw this post that called for four cloves of garlic. A dish I’ve since made, and blatantly disregarded the quantity of garlic.
• I found the recipe on a search engine. I have it set to “all regions” but anecdotal evidence suggests it prioritizes my region.
• I live in a country with majorily Caucasian people, of which I match the majority.
• In skimming over my reply I noted I was being vague about the search engine and nationality, which seems silly. DDG and Conflicted States of America.

This recipe calls for 4 garlic clove bulbs.

Maybe conky but probably not?

Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I’m not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.

The big caveat is that conky doesn’t work with wayland. It’s a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).

Some ideas:

Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.

See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.

My suggestion just changes your threat model, so may not be a good one based on your wants.

Perhaps consolidate systems? Managing less devices = less points of failure. But adds the risk of any given failure being more severe.

A quick search tells me that mac mini’s have ethernet. Are you able temporarily connect that way to fetch the wifi drivers?