That web page is 24MB and took over 11s to load on a gigabit connection and fast PC, to show some text with a font that I find very hard to read.

87 individual .js files !

24MB to read some text written by an LLM just makes me sad about the current state of things. Especially since it reads like it was written by one, with the buzzwords and run on sentences that don’t always make sense.

I’d rather read someones opinions and thoughts as they wrote them, even if that means it’s harder to understand or has less content.

For what it’s worth there are smartwatches with good battery life too, my Garmin Venu 2 lasts at least a week with sleep tracking, workout tracking, and some GPS use through the week.

Backblaze B2 for storage, and I host Healthchecks myself at home.

As I understand it you can do USB-C at a basic 5V level with 2 resistors, and for a watch that would be plenty of power.

Referral tracking with the URL is fine IMO, it’s useful for someone running a site to see what other sites they are getting traffic from, and it doesn’t really affect my privacy.

I have noticed the RSS feed thing, I assume they want to get site traffic and are preventing people from reading with a feed reader or something?

Opnsense is also great, and has a webUI for easier setup.

Healthchecks is incredibly nice for this kind of thing, it’ll notify you if it doesn’t receive a ‘success’ ping on whatever interval you specify.

I use it for all my Restic backups.

So I wouldn’t put Pihole on the internet, but instead set up a Wireguard VPN on your devices and access Pihole via that.

Then you can use the dynamic DNS hostname for Wireguard, and a direct IP for Pihole.

Alternatively you could run Adguard Home instead, as it supports being a DoT and DoH server, both of which work over a hostname on your devices (ie; Android uses DoT for its secure DNS option).

Secure boot force enabled with preset certificates would essentially do that.

Well hopefully the 2FA data is encrypted and the app requires a pin or password to access.

Plus my password manager also needs a pin after it times out, and my computers all have their drives encrypted too.

It’s plenty to stop casual thieves and such.

Looks like it has encrypted sync and desktop apps too, so that’s nice if you need stuff on multiple devices.

MacOS doesn’t run on my hardware, but yeah editing software and CAD software are the reasons I’m on Windows still.

Technically Davinci Resolve does run on Linux, but it’s not always stable and lacks certain codec support.

I haven’t found a good replacement for lightroom yet, darktable is too complex for me, and rawtherapee doesn’t really manage my library well but is an OK RAW editor.

The awful spam was the reason I left, I got mass invited to rooms with really nasty names, and there’s no way in the client to mass ignore invites, you have to go to each one and click ignore.

That wouldn’t be the end of the world, except their client seems to rely on waiting for the server to respond to an action in the foreground, so every time I click ignore it sits there processing for like 10-20 seconds before I can click the next one. There’s no select all, there’s no way to just rapidly tap ignore and have it process in the background like it should be doing.

Also they said even after banning the accounts, there’s no way on their end to remove the invites the banned account sent out.

Overall it’s just painful to use, the clients are bad, the moderation system doesn’t work (what kind of system lets 1 account send out thousands of invites?? It should have auto-banned them within the first 10 or something), their cleanup system doesn’t work, and everything just feels slow as molasses.

If you don’t want to use Firefox sync, you can try just copying the whole profile folder from your backups.

Try out Zen or Floorp.

Floorp has PWA support natively. Zen has 3, not sure on 4.

Have they peaked? It seems like they still have issues with delicate screens, hinges that fail with dirt ingress, and so on…

I think there’s still a lot to fix on foldables.

I can’t say I’ve ever seen this, is your new device Xiaomi as well?

90C is fine, more important is the core speed and if it’s throttling heavily which will impact performance.

If it’s been several years it’s also possible the thermal paste is not working as well anymore and needs to be replaced.

You need to learn some Docker stuff initially for sure, but the underlying OS can be anything including Windows which is why Docker is nice.

The database for Mealie is part of the app already and is handled automatically, with the SQLite docker-compose file they provide.

The phones hotspot will bypass the VPN, so you’ll need to run it directly on the device.

Before step 2 did you cd to the new folder the git clone created?