I’m not saying you should trust every VPN provider. Some have shown to be nore trustworthy than others. Police have raided their datacenrers and not gotten anything (no logs). And they have gone to courts and said they don’t keep that info. However if you don’t trust your ISP, and purely use a VPN, the only info your ISP will get is that you use a VPN. Your encrypted bank packet that they saw before is now an encrypted vpn packet. The vpn will see the encrypted bank packet, but youmre right, you have to trust that they have more to gain by not looking and selling than they gain by selling your info and losing customers.

My Honeywell T10 is connected to my wifi, I use the Homekit on it with HA. But I setup a firewall rule in my router to block all outgoing internet traffic to a group if IPs. Then I added my smart vacuum, thermostat, printers, doorbell, etc to the group. It’s a solid setup.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure this just encrypts your dns requests. After DNS resolution, the traffic packet headers still have destination/source ip addresses and they can reverse dns lookup the ip addresses. Might make it require a few extra steps, but they’re the ones routing the traffic. Even your VPN traffic, they can’t decrypt what’s inside the packets, but they can see your traffic going to a known Mullvad vpn address in Norway or whatever.

True, would take a few seconds to switch each time.

Oh, is that why everyone hates matrix so much? I’ve been rocking it for years for me and my wife to communicate. It’s been pretty solid. Calls/video calls are hit and miss, but the chat has been great. I’ve never federated it. Account creation is locked down, local auth, etc.

Eh, it’d be tricky in case of misses. Usually there’s a vol+ and a vol- not really any vol(int) api to set it to a number. You could spam vol+/vol- to get to the right number, but it’d occationally miss one and start drifting.

While your ISP can’t see everything, they can see metadata. They can see which websites you go to, which social media you use the most, where you bank, where you shop, etc. How much do you think it would take for your ISP to sell that data? If you happen to live somewhere there are laws againat that, you are slightly less at risk. Fines are only a deterrant if they’re more than what’s being offered for your data.

That being said, this only protects you against your ISP or other purely ipaddress based info gatherers. Apps/social media/websites don’t purely use ipaddresses to track you.

I love it. Connected to snapper tools and it’s saved me several times. I can boot to any snapshot in grub, and it’s been way more reliable than Window’s Restore Points ever have been.

I think in kde you can right click on the icon in the taskbar and choose ‘show above other windows’ or something similar.

It’s the sale 'ol shit Different day Gotta get up Gotta get up

As former QA I also agree with this chart.

If you don’t shy away from python, I just use the requests library most of the time:

homeserver_url = “XXX”

access_token = “XXX”

room_id = “!XXX”

url = f{homeserver_url}/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/send/m.room.message"

headers = {“Authorization”: f"Bearer {access_token}",“Content-Type”: “application/json”,}

data = “msgtype”: “m.text”,“body”: “Question of the day!”,}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

Alternatively I also have a bot I use in NodeRed connected to Home Assistant.

Double Alternatively, I’ve used AppRise successfully within various tools like ChangeDetection to notify me via matrix.

Was about to watch it, then read “Please watch til the end. I guarantee you will not regret it.”

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been promised that, and regretted it, I’d be a rich man.

Yes for any game without a publisher. Most indie games use publishers so they can get paid while they’re making the game. It’s really only the games made in a basement on weekends that may see a price improvement.

But the customers don’t see this. You buy a $60 brand new game on epic vs steam vs nintendo vs prime vs anywhere else: the game isn’t more expensive on steam because of their fees. The game is still $60, the publisher and studio make less money. In fact steam doesn’t even set prices, the publisher does. Steam takes 30% to use the platform. Is that too much? Maybe, but this doesn’t hurt the customer, this hurts the people wanting the profits, mostly the game publishers.

Taking this down to 10% won’t drop the price of the game, it reduces the amount of money steam gets. The publisher gets more money. That’s what changes. A few small indie games where the studio is also the publisher might drop the price, but they will be few and far between.

Depends on the girl and the number of babies you’ve had. If you’re on your 4th baby people will be able to tell sooner than your first.

For your first baby, generally it’s unnoticeable for everyone in the first trimester including the mom. Second trimester is probably pretty safe too, this is when you might start looking a little fat by the end, but not really pregnant. Third trimester is when the majority of the weight is gained, and the baby grows the fastest. In the last month of the third trimester the baby gains like a pound per week.

If it is, antiperspirant blocks the pores, not deodorant.

What do you want to do with it? If you’re just going to throw linux on it, there’s a ton of older solid pcs out there for cheap on ebay. Bonus you don’t have to mess around with AI prices on the old hardware. Since you mentioned pc building, you can also grab a decent pc, and depending on what you want to do with it, upgrade it. Grab some office pc and slip in a used but decent graphics card. Best part of this tactic is if you mess up something, you’re only out $20-50 for that part max.

I had a cable isp issued modem that did the same thing, except it was closer to every other week. I replaced the modem with a nice arris surfboard. Fixed the problem for me on Spectrum for the last two years. Only needed to reboot once every 6mo or so.

Lately though, they’ve been upgrading the network in my area (gigabit bidirectional cable, yay) but the service has sucked on and off for the past two months. I’ll have bad days where my internet is struggling to hit 20mbps down. Rebooting my hardware rarely helps.

Just search the model#, amazon and others will pop up.