Yep, that’s exactly what is happening; I’ve seen the same and just kept reminding everyone not to click on ads. Took a while but they actually got it.

I run Pihole on physical Pi’s and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I’ve even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

I’ve been using ProtonVPN with port forwarding for quite a while now specifically on Linux by downloading Wireguard config and running it via terminal. Works great for my purposes.

I’m trying NOT to think about that right now… We have 10 kids and 1 grandson so we’re just trying to stay in the green while having a fun time

This is the way. I grew up farther north (compared to now) with decent mounds from snow plows so it was just a matter of waiting for those and then tunneling into them.

These days I shovel the snow from a larger area to build my mound before tunneling. Kids love it regardless ☺️

I would like to do this with .com but has been held for several years so went with a newer TLD. It’s mostly been fine aside from occasional person whose mail provider sends me to spam or the very few who block me outright.

DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

We share a single PC account and do exactly this to easily separate our profiles; here’s what I have for my launcher for example:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=David-Firefox
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=firefox %u -P David --class Davidfox
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/david/Launchers/Firefox/Firefox-David.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;ProfileManager;

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -new-window

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -private-window

[Desktop Action ProfileManager]
Name=Open the Profile Manager
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager --class Davidfox

Here I’m using a custom icon to help tell our profiles apart on our dock and use a custom window class so each profile’s windows will group with each other as well.

Agreed. For anything beyond the simplest setup membership is the way to go especially if near enough to some of the cheaper options; we had a Planet Fitness open near us that offers $10/month for lowest tier membership (prior it was YMCA at $70/month for the family).

Safety razor

Blades are extremely cheap and always gives a great shave.

Elliptical and dumbbells

Gym memberships add up quick so went with a cheaper elliptical and a nice set of adjustable dumbbells.

Kobo ereader

As I get more into reading I’ve come to appreciate that this one allows loading my own ebooks from my PC which can save a ton depending on use case.

This 100%

I do my own renovations and build some simple furniture etc.; my drill and miter saw in particular have been invaluable.

I haven’t purchased yet; this is the one I’m currently considering:

https://a.co/d/dDdzptv

I’m in a similar situation currently hosting Pihole on my Pi’s and Jellyfin on a SFF refurbished PC that’s running some other project. I’ve decided to go with a NUC, most likely beelink, and intend to install Proxmox to then run container VMs for each of the various projects to more easily manage them.

The board games: Nightfall, World-Z League, and Unchained.

For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I’ve logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.

No my pfSense setup is fairly minimal

pfSense on this:
https://a.co/d/6WpafWQ

I also block outgoing port 53 only allowing my Pihole through.

I use Tailscale to access the network while away.

This is likely my result as well. I’ve tried to avoid needing 2 phones but… I think it’ll be nice to explore Linux phone options.

Board games :(

I would go with RustDesk then which I also personally use to support family and friends where there’s only 1 PC they might need help with.