Those are some peak water polo nails.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone wearing cycling specific clothes for normal commuter trips. Other than maybe putting on a rain coat/pants over their normal clothing.

If it’s only you (or your household) that is accessing the services then something like hosting a tailscale VPN is a relatively user friendly and safe way to set-up remote access.

If not, then you’d probably want to either use the aforementioned Cloudflare tunnels, or set up a reverse proxy container (nginx proxy manager is quite nice for this as it also handles certs and stuff for you). Then port forward ports 80 and 443 to the server (or container if you give it a separate IP). This can be done in your router.

In terms of domain set-up. I’ve always found subdomains (homeassistant.domain.com) to be way less of a hassle compared to directories (domain.com/homeassistant) since the latter may need additional config on the application end.

Get a cheap domain at like Cloudflare and use CNAME records that point domain.com and *.domain.com to your dyndns host. Iirc there’s also some routers/containers that can do ddns with Cloudflare directly, so that might be worth a quick check too.

HEVC actually requires a $1 license you can get from the ms store. It’s a royalty thing. OEMs often ship PCs with that license already enabled.

There are more applications than just windows Media Player that won’t play hevc files/streams without that license installed.

VLC doesn’t really seem to care about those things though and it’s better than the default anyways.

If you have an HBA I would indeed suggest running truenas in proxmox and passing through the HBA to the VM. Truenas/ZFS really likes raw disk access and passing through an HBA is the easiest way to guarantee that. If everything is connected to motherboard sata ports you’re probably better of running truenas scale on bare metal instead.

Truenas has a hypervisor (KVM, just like proxmox). For a VM or two it’s perfect and it even supports GPU passthrough as a gui option, but anything over that and I’d rather use the proxmox management layer instead.

I’m running both Unraid and Truenas (freenas rebranded). Truenas is absolutely my preferred choice IF you either buy all your drives in one go, or can expand drives in batches. The performance difference between Unraid and truenas is pretty large. Which is especially noticeable when using a 2.5g+ connection.

You do, however lose the ability to just throw in a bunch of random drives like Unraid. This is the primary reason one of my systems is running it.

The app/VM experience is better on Unraid, but Truenas (scale) isn’t too far behind. For the average plexarr stack both work just fine.

Making a typo in the BGP config is the internet’s version of nuclear Armageddon

A lot of sensors/gauges in industrial applications are retrofitted with lorawan or similar remote readout capabilities right now. Battery life for these devices is already a big design consideration, especially since not all locations are easily accessible.

With a power source like this you would essentially charge a capacitor, use the stored charge to do a sensor read and short data burst, and then wait for the next charge.

It does exist, its called 801.11ah or wifi HaLow

That standard is mainly designed for things like IOT and wireless security cameras, but nothing stops you from getting an HaLow access point and network adapter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0BHnmi9j8

They’re called digital signage displays. Those module slots are usually in the intel SDM form factor.

This stuff is expensive as these displays and modules are rated for 24/7 operation and the software they ship with by default is specifically made to manage content on a large fleet of them.

You’re honestly gonna get a way better experience for cheaper by getting a normal TV + a NUC/Nvidia shield and just not connecting the TV to a network ever.

People have done it on M1’s at least. You’ll need a well equipped rework station to do it though, especially since the NAND is essentially glued to the motherboard in addition to solder.

One of the good things valve has been doing recently is cracking down hard on smurfs/alts. I started league last year and was often the only actual new player in the game. Imagine the amount of toxicity I got when people found out there was an actual noob in their new Smurf’s matchmaking.

Bad play doesn’t matter as much if everyone is actually on the same level. If everybody is bad, nobody is.

We have a bunch of torrent compacts at work and they’re honestly great cases too. Also very good at keeping high end parts cool at a low noise level.

I’ve always been a fan of closed Fractal cases. They do no-non sense right.

Nog defending this practice at all, but a fun little fact is that if you get a Mac instance on AWS (and other cloud providers) It’s literally a normal mac mini in a rack enclosure.

They feed the fungus leaves, which then provides the ants with honeydew in turn.

Iirc the fungus even excretes certain pheromones telling the ants what type of leaves to get.

They did have some programs to try and push more apps, but dropped the ball far too quickly for it to gain traction.

Microsoft essentially shipped free phones out to everyone that wanted to make or port a windows phone app. Heck, I got one just to port over the schedule app I made for my small high school at the time and had maybe 300 installs.

The dev environment was actually a lot nicer to work with than the android one at the time as well.

Yes we do,

However they don’t hold much power over the day to day workings of the country.

The current monarch is essentially an ambassador that travels around the world for state visits and diplomatic talks. Similar to what a president and foreign minister would do.

I doubt support for the royals would be so high if not for all the national and international PR work that they do.