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I’d argue this is a wash. Linux is more convenient in many ways but Windows is in others.

Everything old is new again.

Mullvad got rid of their port forwarding.

So did IVPN. Use Proton VPN now.

I am super impressed with Arch on my home servers. People seem to think “rolling” means “unstable” but the only issues I’ve had were due to some weird hardware incompatibility with my motherboard. Once I replaced the mobo my system has been rock solid AND reasonably up-to-date (I do use LTS kernel).

My bill hasn’t changed but maybe I was grandfathered in.

Yes, I’m aware. Still as good at it’s always been

I’ve been using Linode for a decade (or more) now without any issues. I’d encourage you to contact their support about this issue. Assuming you’re on the up-and-up this sounds like a big and in sure they’d be happy to help.

If you decide not to go with Linode though I think Digital Ocean is a good alternative.

Yeah, as soon as I read the second paragraph my thought was “buy your own router”. Problem solved.

I’d rather they use the open standard. Google should, too. If there are shortcomings with the standard then let’s improve the standard, not create a custom implementation of it.

If you can hard wire an ESP32 via Ethernet that would probably be best. You could also get better latency with an ESP32 over WiFi. However, a ZigBee button should be pretty low latency already.

Anecdotally I get perceptibly instant response from an ESP32 over WiFi.

Awesome, what server chassis is that?

You say this like restoring net neutrality prevents these things from happening. They’re not mutually exclusive.

I agree that Hue bulbs are expensive compared to others but they generally are considered some of the best bulbs for color accuracy and build quality. I’ve considered getting Hue bulbs before but definitely wont be now.

Just encrypt your drives and don’t tell anyone the password.

This is what encryption is for without much risk of loss.

This would probably be a better request for Lemmy than Sync.

Wow I’m blind. Thank you.

Where is this option? I don’t see it.

I put together a repo that you should be able to pull down and get running pretty quickly using docker compose. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

https://github.com/PHLAK/nextcloud-compose