bedbeard

Dabbled with Linux over the years but have finally made the jump to using it as my primary OS. I tried a bunch of distros and settled on the elegant simplicity of Mint. Every game has worked just.. fine.

It feels genuinely refreshing to know nothing will change without my consent, I know I will not login one day to find a surprise cortana/copilot/clippy icon in the taskbar or an ad for Avowed waiting for me. I can't believe that is even considered a 'pro', but here we are.

is £35 a high cost for one of these? It would be 1 per property, sounds alright to me.

For your other questions I think this paragraph suggests they are good to go really (not sure about cleaning, do people clean out bird boxes?):

According to Bourne-Taylor, multibillion profit-making housebuilders have signalled in high-level government meetings they have no objections to the bricks, which are widely made by conventional brick manufacturers. There is already a British Standard for them, which means there’s no government investment required for development, guidance or standardisation.

I strongly recommend symfonium on android. Plexamp is a really polished app but I found the handling of downloaded files quite poor, I don't think you can even search downloads when you're offline? (other bonus to symfonium is it supports jellyfin and sources, in case you were to ever fully move away from plex)

I have definitely seen worries about tailscale in other threads related to a recent VC funding round, I suppose they haven't aggressively started the enshittification journey (yet), and it is also a bonus that most of tailscale is open source, e.g. headscale exists.

If tailscale started reducing the free service # of devices/users to push people towards their paid 'personal plus' plan then maybe we'd see a similar backlash. I say this as a tailscale user myself.

I'd also like to hear more about it. I'm not sure I'll stick with proton after my sub next expires and infomaniak seems a strong competitor

I order mine from https://smol.com/uk. They come in a cardboard packet which fits through the letterbox. I was also fed up with the ridiculous and unnecessary amount of plastic in the supermarket equivalents.

You're right to be wary of unlimited. It's primarily a way for employers to avoid having to pay out accrued vacation time when staff leave. And create the competitive environment you mentioned over taking few days vs a lot. It seems great at first glance but I'd prefer a set number of days, no ambiguity that way.

I've been very pleased with this qbittorrent docker image which includes two modern web UIs bundled in with it: https://hotio.dev/containers/qbittorrent/

I'm in a similar position but perhaps a few steps ahead. But still needing to regularly lookup things like "how do I do in linux?". The other reply mentions tailscale which I agree is the best for your use case, super simple set up, secure and free, you just need to run one command on the machine or VM and it guides you through the rest. There is an option to allow access to your local network as well (haven't used it, but have seen it in options). Then it is just like connecting to a vpn from elsewhere to get access.

The other alternative option you might want to explore is a cloudflare tunnel (I used the cloudflared docker container). You'll need to buy a public domain and then that can redirect to a service you want (e.g. you could access jellyfin from 'jellyfin.yourname.com'), I set up two-factor authentication which then only allows certain e-mails to get a code to login. This means you don't need to connect to a VPN and can access from any machine and browser. I've used this for things like silverbullet and planka.

I like what they were going for but Liberty Line feels like a bit of a cop out, named after "the freedom that is a defining feature of London". Better than just more monarch names though I suppose.

Let's hope so! My main worry is it pushes things underground where you can't really track and regulate anything, which has happened in other prohibition policies.

I think I'd be more up for it if smoking use was trending in the wrong direction but it's been pretty consistently trending downwards since the 70s. But if it accelerates the decline then that would definitely be a positive.