Run a noads DNS on the phone, either libredns or mullvaddns, neither outlook or Gmail will show ads.

In fact you won’t have any ads period.

I’m running sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, jellyseer, jellyfin and craftycontroller (minecraft server) all running on CasaOS on Ubuntu server. I also have Twingate connector installed on the host to allow secure access from outside the home.

I have a home media server (which may or may not host an arr stack) running on a 5 year old i5 NUC withb16Gb RAM and two USB external SSDs for storage.

So far it manages for the household (3 users) perfectly fine.

You generally don’t need sudo to install flatpaks and actually pretty sure they advise against it.

https://www.antena3.com/noticias/economia/cni-apunta-ciberataque-como-motivo-apagon-electrico-generalizado-espana_20250428680f78ac5d71dc778a92db60.html

Telecinco Noticias were reporting that.

Spanish news media reporting 6 ton10 hours to fully restore power to all regions.

Also still investigating the cause but suspicion falling on a cyber attack.

Antena3 News If you can read Spanish this is informative but also has videos of various impacts.

I run my home media server ( and intel NUC i5, so nothing super powerful) running Ubuntu with CasaOS.

There’s tons of you tube videos to help with CasaOS for self hosting and not just the media side.

I think I only used the terminal to install CasaOS the rest is done from the web gui

All well and good, but realistically and backdoor can be exploited by unfriendly as well as friendly actors.

Also does this mean government agency communication would also be unencrypted or just Joe schmoe?

VAT is applied to all goods irrelevant of origination. Think of it as a federal sales tax instead of a state sales tax.

There are different rates dependent on the goods and some items are VAT free (again this has nothing to do with origin but to do with the product} i.e. I’m fairly sure that in UK children’s clothes are either exempt or VAt at a lower rate.

My home media server is an old nuc mini pc i5 16Gb RAM with attached usb storage running on a Linux distro, runs Jellyfin and a few other applications for the household.

In short yes, an old pc will work fine.

Sadly voting didn’t fail you. US is in the same predicament UK was in after Brexit. Complacency at the expected outcome, a belief that some people couldn’t be so stupid as to vote for Trump/Brexit and yet, they did in the majority.

Regardless of how fucked up the election process is, inany countries I’m not singling out the US, that is the reason that you feel failed, look at your countrymen that swallowed the snake oil and ask the question why?

5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump’s team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn’t vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn’t going to happen.

I’m all for protest but I don’t think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.

I’m not American or a resident of US but that’s just my opinion as an outsider.

Honestly, anything below the age of majority is sketchy (excepting a romeo and julet clause) IMHO and I was surprised the average was 16.

Uh, no. World wide average age of consent is 16.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/z450ti/age_of_consent_worldwide_world_average_is_16/

Huawei runs it’s own branch of Android since it lost its ability to offer Google services.

In the case you’re not paying for “Android” but for the tech, whatever you think about it it’s a tech that no-one else is yet doing, least of all Apple which in real terms is still playing catch-up with Android and it’s insistance of a walled garden .

Let’s hope my doomongering is just that, with other countries in Europe starting to swing that way I hope it’s not sign of the future.

An overwhelming majority by seats but only 33% of the popular vote.

36% voted Tory/Reform so voters have not shifted left but split the more right wing vote

Don’t forget Bottas’s overtake /s