I left pop a couple of years ago after they delayed further major updates while they worked on Cosmic. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and shortly after that Plasma 6 was released (which of course caused me to not even care about Cosmic).
For my purposes, Bazzite is perfect, but I’ve heard that CachyOS and PikaOS are decent as well.
Another vote for Mullvad.
In this vein, Google LOVES to hardcode their DNS into their apps. So, like you said, even if you use a different DNS provider, your phone will still be hitting Google servers.
Graphene is the way.
Sorry, I didn’t mean package pickup. I meant like ordering from the supermarket, for curbside pickup, for instance.
I don’t necessarily do it for all online purchases, but I definitely do it when I can pick it up myself.
I love e-ink for informational displays around the house. If they were cheaper, there’d be one in every room driven by an ESP32.
How did you go about setting it up on the highest ridge in your area? I’ve got a lot of hills/mountains in mine but most of it is owned by someone or public land like parks. I would love to do something like that, though.
I also work in tech, and was what you’d call a low need customer.
The Xfinity service in my entire neighborhood would go down almost daily, and sometimes more than twice a day. On top of that, it would sometimes cut out just long enough to disconnect my remote shells, causing me to have to reauthenticate. It was horrible, my new (community) fiber is a huge improvement. I think it’s gone down once since having it installed almost two years ago.
True, but again, you’re making a lot of assumptions here. I don’t see anything about proxies anywhere.
He probably got caught because of an internal audit, that’s the assumption I would make.
Are you doing a “well, akshully” here while also complaining about that very behavior?
You’re not educating anyone, you’re just being hostile for no reason.
Did GFCI not allow for it?
Use grayjay.app, they have it for desktop too. No ads, sponsorblock built in, and has multiple platforms in one place.
It’s much easier for me to manage if it’s a file issue though. It’s much more difficult to manage an actual network 3000 miles away, especially if something actually goes wrong. Basically, “it won’t play” can be checked locally. If it doesn’t play locally, I’m happy to fix it. But I’m not about to troubleshoot her network issues for her.
Saying I’m “supporting a chunk of her network” is like saying Netflix supports a chunk of their users’ networks. It’s just not true.
slightly off topic but the first time I got “stuck” in a black hole on SpaceEngine was scary as fuck
Good question, I’m also in tech. She does drive and of course opens bank accounts, but it’s like it all goes out the window when she needs to do anything remotely technical. I would say that most of the users I’ve encountered are not that bad, but she is unique in that way.
You replied to someone and said “my wife has no problem using tailscale”. Is your wife not another person? Sure, same household, but if you’re not running a pirate TV service, why does she need tailscale, and how is that different than sharing with my MIL?
Also, why do you keep using the terminology of “pirate tv service”? Why is it suddenly not a home media server if I want my mother in law to be able to use it? I don’t share with people outside of my family.
You seem to think that because you’re using Jellyfin, it’s automatically not piracy. But you certainly can do piracy with it, it has tools purpose built for it like Jellyseerr. So how is that not a “pirate tv service”?
Do you not know that you can also upload your own media rips to Plex? Is that still a “pirate tv service”? At what point do you assign the (fairly negative, at least legally) connotation of piracy to a service someone is hosting out of their homelab?
Too hard, she can’t even open a PDF file on her own.
KPUD in Kitsap County, WA does something similar: https://www.kpud.org/fiber-internet/free-public-wi-fi/
They also have very affordable public fiber.