Know what you want to buy before going into a store, stick to your guns. Unless you want to dilly dally, it saves time.

Organize your stuff, makes finding things much faster. Adam Savage had a good tip: Befor you put something away, pretend you’re looking for it and put it where your first thought was. Next time you look for it, it’s in a natural spot for you.

Not always good advice.

An exclusive relationship, by definition, minimizes your future options but opens up a subset which are better for many/most people.

Meh, sometimes you just know after seeing who’s out there. I wouldn’t recommend breaking off something good and risking not getting it back because of your insecurities.

After decades of user interfaces and internet access, we’re making things worse rather than better.

Someone at Microsoft realized that hardware will speed up, hiding the fact that the OS is getting bloated and riddled with code that doesn’t directly benefit the user.

The value Windows provides isn’t great enough to deal with this state any longer. In fact, my experience shows it’s slower and just as buggy.

We have technology available to improve experiences, let’s not mix it with profit incentives for once.

It won’t murder you if that’s what you’re asking. You can always monitor your egress traffic if you’re concerned. Ultimately, for home use it likely doesn’t matter.

Spying today takes the form of custom silicon branded as the original with extra transistors added before fabbing. Usually higher nm processes since they can’t fab on the latest nodes.

Knowing this, the chance of getting a counterfeit chip on a name brand switch is non-negligible as it is, and those parts come from China too.

The firmware might be a concern, but again, you need to be a valuable target.

These mini pcs are a godsend: 12th Gen Intel N100 Firewall Computer Soft Router 4x 2.5G i226 i225 LAN NVMe Industrial Fanless Mini PC https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPBQflM

Cheap and more than powerful for opnsense and pi-hole on top.

Home assistant just run the new install script on proxmox to setup a vm. Copy your data over, usb pass through your radio hw and good to go.

Docker on lxc also works and you can probably swarm your containers over.

TP-Link Omada EAP line is rock solid for cheap managed access points. You can even run the controller in an lxc full local.

They can line up along party lines because it spurs controversy, which increases turnout and publicity. There’s plenty of money floating to both sides to balance that out.

Our cowardly, self-serving politicians won’t dare bite the hand that feeds them. The Mossad is our second pair of eyes in the Middle East, and Israeli backed AIPAC money runs deep in American politics.

Would not trust automatically downloading executables unless you have a sandbox.

Does musescore fit your needs? If you want a piano.. you should probably get a midi input keyboard. If you don’t need 88 keys and real-time playing, you can deal with less octaves.

At this point, the initial attack was just an excuse.