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

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

Is an opinion, not the right one but it’s an opinion /s

What sort of demonic heathen do think I am, milk always after.

If it’s not black it’s not tea 😀

We’re talking real tea not fancy poncy stuff /S

Only badass and above is acceptable :)

Tea, small amount of milk, needs to be well brewed and strong. Coffee, preferably weak as F with as much milk as possible to overpower the coffee (i’m not a fan) :)

No sugar no sweeteners in either.

Tea prioritsed over coffee.

Last Episode of Severence.

3 episodes of Wheel of Time

And just about binge the latest season of Black Mirror

Three Widows and currently reading The Well of Ascension

I pretty much only read fantasy and crime, with a few random stuff thrown in occasionally.

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?