It’s not carpets that I take my shoes off for - it’s so I don’t track public bathroom and outside street debris into my house.

What’s surprising about their stock ROM having tracking and phoning home? Use Grapheneos.

Yep, a bastion is what you’re looking for. I use an rpi + a Dynamic DNS record in a script on the pi to automatically update firewall and ssh rules if my IP updates. Of course, you may need to do some configuration depending on their network setup.

I haven’t used PayPal in ages, I only use Privacy cards.

I would never buy anything made by Meta, even if it was the best around.

My partner’s computer was running bazzite on a 2080 super and it gave her nothing but problems, especially with Wayland. Switching to AMD immediately fixed the Wayland issues, and also completely stabilized her system. It could be that it was a problematic GPU, I suppose. I admit that I haven’t personally used an Nvidia GPU since ~2020, however I did see the issues she had for sure.

Whatever you do, do not get an Nvidia GPU. I’ve only ever had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux. Meanwhile, the AMD drivers (both the ones baked into the kernel and proprietary) work nearly flawlessly.

Intel’s most recent generation of CPUs were also frying themselves and Intel (at least last I checked) were not accepting RMAs from affected customers. Something to consider for your CPU at least.

I want to try it but I’m worried that I’ll get too frustrated and then have (another) expensive keyboard that I don’t use.

I have this level1techs KVM which can drive my 5120x1440 @ 120hz monitor (without DSC) AND my 3840x2160 @ 240hz monitor (also without DSC). It’s $450, but Wendell and level1techs are great and it’s well worth the price.

I’m running Fedora on one host and Ubuntu on the other. With Windows, you can use DSC to drive huge resolutions at 240hz.

They have a doorbell: https://reolink.com/__/product/reolink-video-doorbell/

It doesn’t really get smaller than that.

Someone has serious issues with being wrong. You were the first one to change the subject to say wifi required passwords.

I’m not talking about dishwashers, and only have ever mentioned wifi. I’m talking about how you’re wrong that there can’t be open networks. Don’t change the subject just because you’re wrong. You seem to have an issue with being incorrect. It’s a sad look on you.

Show me where I said anything about a dishwasher. Or defended it in any way. Are you just pissed that you were wrong? That’s pretty pathetic.

Explain the 30+ million open WiFi networks on Wigle if WiFi networks require a password.

https://wigle.net/stats

"Am I wrong?

No, it is everyone else who is wrong."

You’re the meme. No router has ever required it. Yes, it’s an option. But how do you think open networks exist? Do you think that magically the router will know it’s in a residence and suddenly require a password?

How do you explain the 30 million+ open networks on Wigle? https://wigle.net/stats

It as a protocol does not and has never required a password. Nor have routers ever required it.

Both are great options, but KDE/plasma 6 is my pick.

Give me the arsenic because there is no way I’m overcooking my rice to remove it

I use it for powerusers like Pug as well, and then for trolls and for know it alls who like to argue. For each I use an emoji to describe my feelings towards them. So, for example “👎 Disingenuous”, or “👍 {username}”

You’ll need to download the client off-network (have you tried the local library for that?) and put it on your PC. If you know how to use docker, you could set up the client via docker and dockerhub which I doubt is blocked, but you’d need to set docker up on windows which I have no experience with.

You can also try wireguard on a non-standard port if there are further blocks. OVPN can also go over 443 which might help.

Really though, it depends on how they’re blocking them. They could be blocking the protocol based on port or deep packet inspection, or they could just be blocking a list of VPN hosts. They could be doing both.

If they’re just blocking hosts, you could set up a vpn relay on a host somewhere else, but that won’t help if they’re blocking the protocol.