What does she do for work?

What audio dramas did you like? This is more up my alley than the political stuff.

Infuse has a paid tier but their free tier will satisfy the needs of most people.

I use Jellyfin server with the Infuse app and it works flawlessly.

ETA: I don’t love Jellyfin for music. I use Navidrome for iOS music and Lyrion for home/multiroom music.

I’m not really convinced scientists is a leopards my face moment. Most American scientists would not have voted for the current president.

Corruption.

This includes government officials, private industry and the general mass movement of money from the middle and upper middle classes to the multimillionaire and billionaire classes.

Ultimately, it’s always about money.

You can’t see the video? If you can’t vpn it then I’ll post it elsewhere so you can see it.

You are me, 3 years ago! I'm diagnosed with ADHD and what you described is exactly how I felt when I was starting out. I even bought a RaspberryPi 4B+ CanaKit which sat in the box for over a year, just like you.

3 years later I have the Pihole, OPNsense router & firewall, Jellyfin, Traefik reverse proxy, and a bunch of other stuff too. My advice would be to start super small so you don't feel overwhelmed. It is incredibly easy to get overwhelmed with all of this.

For what it's worth, before I started hosting anything, I started with NextDNS. I just set up my iPhone and computers (then mac, now mostly linux) to use that service. It comes with super easy-to-use instructions and you can start for free. If you don't like it, you can always just delete the account and it'll be like you never used it at all. Very low risk but doing this will teach you about DNS. From there you can begin to move to a Pihole and Docker, if you're comfortable.

Feel free to DM if you want. It's a great community here and we're all a pretty relaxed group.

I can’t even specify the allowed IPs for a connection

Funny. This was the exact use case which cemented my pf/OPN sense decision. I used to use pf, now use OPNsense. And as you probably know, the IP specificity issue is not just regarding Wireguard, it's also regarding your reverse proxy, if you're running one.

As an aside, I have OPNsense handling DHCP which broadcasts two PiHoles (redundancy) as the DNS to my networked machines/devices. Then for upstream DNS, I have those two piholes pointed at a dedicated technitium dns box -- it's it's an authoritative dns server, not just a recursive one like unbound. As I said in my previous comment, there are probably better or fancier setups but this one, for my needs, is sufficient.

I've always been flummoxed by Ubiquity products. I'm no sysadmin but I understand my way around networking and I absolutely agree with your "halfway implemented" critique. I installed Ubiquity at my parents' house so that I could more easily do remote troubleshooting when something their network goes down. But for myself, I just stick with OpnSense at home. It's not perfect but it suits my needs.

This was a fun writeup to read. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

This also made me chuckle. 10/10 comment.