This site is kinda cool

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

Why not? It’s another useful area to use as a backup.

Use Cryptomator. You can then use any cloud storage provider knowing they can’t read your files.

You could try this. I have two of these (16GB 512GB version) arriving in the post today. They’re on offer currently.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005234838380.html?dp=1c009gth2hm7&aff_fcid=454bd2f0582d40858b2fd52e8092eb83-1717654888688-02393-NUUJNoAU&aff_fsk=NUUJNoAU&aff_platform=promotion&sk=NUUJNoAU&aff_trace_key=454bd2f0582d40858b2fd52e8092eb83-1717654888688-02393-NUUJNoAU&terminal_id=41c31be75a2c40b2a9d77b41608f9a7e&afSmartRedirect=y

Wireguard works out of the box for me. I use a docker image.

Prices are really out of control. Particularly food which is a necessity unlike alcohol. I can’t see any government making significant changes to reduce either, including Labour.

I said I wish I hadn’t purchased the PS5 due to the poor library of games in comparison to the PS4 era on Reddit. Proceeded to get downvotes.

Where I am from, saying thank you doesn’t warrant a response. It’s certainly something I heard when I took a trip to New York though.

PipePipe is on fdroid

I ran PiHole for years. It started as a way to block ads but then also a way to block games and YouTube for my kids so they get a break. I had to manually control this though. I switched to NextDNS last year because this can be done on a schedule and they can’t get around it such as swapping to mobile data on their phones.

In the house though I run AdGuard because there’s no way differentiate traffic for each of my kids NextDNS profiles. With AdGuard it can proxy DNS requests to take traffic from the TV in their bedroom and convert it to DNS over TLS so the traffic hits the correct profile. I don’t use AdGuard for anything else. It does not filter anything. It’s purely to make sure traffic hits the correct NextDNS profile.

My kids plays Roblox, it doesn’t run as well as it does bare metal

I ran Linux in VirtualBox for years but it’s just not the same as running from bare metal. The step to bare metal is the key to actually starting to make the move to Linux for me

Get a second drive and install Linux on it. You can then flick between the two on boot. I’ve done this and now booting into Arch more than Windows. I’ll still boot into Windows for reasons but Arch is my main OS now.

Another one for the grave yard

Yeah. I mean, even if you did get targeted by someone they really don’t want to waste their time on someone who is more privacy/security conscious. Thieves want easy targets.

I do pay for SimpleLogin and will continue to do so. The only place my actual proton email address is exposed is on SimpleLogin. Every site I use on the internet has its own alias. That’s 350+ sites currently.

The only downside to a catchall, as I see it, is someone could just start creating any random email address knowing it will find your legitimate mailbox. Also sending as any of the aliases can be a pain.

More than one email?

I don’t disagree but paying £40 a year to remove a signature seems excessive. I’d actually like to go for Unlimited but can’t justify the cost.

I pay for the same but may go down to their free tier. After a purge of email and emails with larger attachments I’m down to less than 500mb. The only thing I dislike on the free tier is their automated signature to advertise proton. I hardly ever send emails though so not too much of an issue.

We looked after a cafe who had a couple of PC’s to use that gave internet access. Yes this was a while ago, way before smartphones and wifi. The PC’s had some software that allowed internet access for a set duration based on how long they had purchased. This software was managed by an NT4 Server backend.
The owner called one day to say nothing works. When I got there, NT4 has been wiped and replaced with Windows 98. Apparently one of the university student baristas was asked to help when they had an issue. The owner was trying to save money from calling us out. Fixing this mess was way pricier than whatever was wrong previously!

Wait. Technical project managers exist?