I always worried that it was a vampire draw on the battery and made the waste problem of batteries worse. Open to being wrong though

Shocked face… No surprise to anyone who has actually worked in that environment.

Yes, good question. Phone wifi could be on a different network or subnet.

OpenAudible - because Audible cycles books in and out of the membership too fast and sometimes their phone app sucks.

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains…

I wouldn’t cap it but put in a Studor vent if there is a chance that you need more venting.

They make what is called a studor vent for this situation. Not sure if there are code restrictions for different areas. If allowed you can put them under sinks etc to get better venting of sewer lines.

I had instability in kde when an upgrade moved me away from the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Might be worth checking that.