Oh ok, the first thing that comes to my mind is Kodi. Depending your pc it might be a bit slow but that should work.

Edit: are you on linux or windows? If windows, you should really consider linux. Old pc comes back to life with linux as it needs way less ressources than windows

I guess you meant something to act as a remote desktop? Something lightweight better than a remote desktop for your use case is to setup a FTP server or a samba share. You will then use some media player client to read from there

There is many different instances, maybe try another one

Haven’t used it much but as another option, you could try some firefox addon like libredirect so it will open some redlib instance.

I don’t know about jailbreak, but you can sideload games/apps. Will send a link in mp

It already exists for quest (vr head set) which is android base, so I guess we will see one for phone at some point.

Check brave history and you will see the amount of controversies they have. I personally wouldn’t believe anything Brave says.

(not OP) Have seen an article in a french magazine called “60 millions de consommateurs” it is a well known magazine from “national institute of consumers” and they provide neutral information for consumers and very often tackle corporate. They also help people with specific problems by using there legal departments and others technical departments.

extract from article: (auto translated so could have some errors, feel free to ask if necessary)

"How we did it

• Ten letters from readers sent in 2025 to the editorial staff of “60” were selected. Messages asking questions, sometimes thorny, on the main consumer topics: banking, housing, health, guarantees, and even transportation.

• These questions were submitted in August to three free artificial intelligences: ChatGPT-5 (OpenAI), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google), and Le Chat (Mistral AI).

• Each response was dissected by the legal or technical department of the National Consumer Institute. Is the advice given accurate, incomplete, or far-fetched? The most convincing AI was distinguished, unless all failed to answer correctly."

One example of the letters: (same as above, auto translated, added some context for ease of understanding)

" A questionable rent increase

<< We have been renting since August 2013 and we have just received a registered letter announcing a rent increase. However, we have no information about the revaluation index in this letter, nor in the lease. Furthermore, I have just discovered that a landlord does not have the right to increase the rent without having provided an energy performance diagnosis (DPE). What can I do?>>>

AI responses: our analysis

ChatGPT and Le Chat point out that the Climate and Resilience Act of August 22, 2021, prohibits rent increases for F or G housing [these letters indicate energy performance diagnosis], which is an energy sieve. Le Chat rightly advises asking the landlord for the DPE and contesting the increase if it displays F or G. If the dispute persists, he recommends consulting a lawyer or a tenant defense association. He could also have cited the justice conciliator!

Chat gpt and Gemini are more vague or even incomprehensible. Gemini states that the “landlord has the right to increase the rent even without an DPE, unless the energy class of the housing is F or G.” An energy class given without an DPE, really?

Winner= Le chat"

"Verdict

With three correct answers each, ChatGPT and Le Chat have a narrow lead over Gemini. This doesn’t stop them from making mistakes, or even inventing convenient legal passages to support their arguments. Surprisingly, the upgrade from version 40 mini to version 5 in early August caused ChatGPT to lose its advantage in two cases! Disappointing for an AI supposed to behave like “a PhD-level expert,” according to Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, its publisher. As it stands, it’s difficult to recommend one AI over another. To increase the quality of the answer obtained, cross-reference it with those provided by other AIs. The safest course of action is to make an appointment with a real lawyer. To obtain a free consultation with a professional, contact a consumer association or one of the approximately 3,000 legal access points spread throughout the country"

I remember an announcement that the feature enabling remote viewing (outside of network) has/will become a paid function on Plex. But I haven’t followed it so don’t know all details

Nice. you can look out for a project with esp home and a contact sensor. Here is an exemple

https://esp32io.com/tutorials/esp32-door-sensor

Is the end goal to know if your dishwasher has finished? If so, a smart plug with power monitoring could tell you that.

Thanks for your answer, I only spend 15-20mn yesterday and have a starting prompt that doesn’t look bad (from my very limited knowledge). Would you be ok to have a look at and tell me what are your thoughts about it?

I obviously don’t realise how much work that is but thanks to you, I started one by asking AI as you recommended (didn’t even think about it, that’s shows how much I’m new to this :D). It isn’t personalised yet to my HA but I think I’m on the right track.

Since I almost never used ai, I didn’t know that people gate keep their ai knowledge so thanks for letting me know. I honestly thought it wasn’t a big deal. Also, I didn’t ask for someone to create it but asked for guidance like tips to not miss important details.

was assuming it was something very general and not specific to my HA like " you will act as a home assistant specialist giving me step by step guide to create automation, dashboard elements…" But by the feel I get from your answer, I guess I’m wrong…

+1 those are really great. And should be just below 150

• Lapierre
• Peugeot
• Sunn
• Origine cycles Are a few french ones

Hi, If the one you link is good enough for you in term of accuracy, you can pick nearly everything you find at Aliexpress. Since you will be using rechargeable batteries, might be best to pick one without screen.

Thanks for the clarification

What I will say needs to be fact check because I never dig much on it since I’m not using w11 so I can be wrong. There is a feature called recall which take regular snapshot on w11.

A quick search about gives different results but it is apparently a opt in feature, so unless you enabled it, it shouldn’t.

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/microsoft-controversial-feature-screenshots-your-activity-914592-20250417

If you think it does this from your browser search, try using a second device which isn’t windows based to browse the net and see if its still guesses right

Never had an mamazon tablet but I guess it has a modified android version like their tv dongle so mostly any “real” android tablet will do, cheapest one would be less reactive but still will works. I had mine on an old Huawei tablet but today I would go for something like Xiaomi pad 6 (don’t think it is worth to get a high end tablet for that purpose), whatever you get disable battery saving functionality for kiosk app and you should be good. As for telemetry/spyware, block it at router level so it will be limited to your local network.