Dotzip does have default blocks on new accounts iirc, you should check this if it’s of importance to you.

Despite what comes from the mouth of the company, it is made from and run by the people behind it. Funding Mullvad funds him, and in turn that funds something intolerable to me. As long as that link is there, I won’t be.

Separating the people from the company is viable when it’s an inconsequential staffer in question. Not so for a co-founder and co-owner.

There aren’t many things left in life where it’s easy to have scruples, but this absolutely a hill that can be died upon without much inconvenience.

One of the Mullvad founders funds a far right political party.

Thought you should know. It might not bother you, but it bothered me enough to move to an alternate provider.

Love this part of my work. Benefits of small business that’s 90% B2B I suppose.

The phone tree is one level deep by design. You dial, listen to options and then pick one. There’s no bullshit ‘use the website’ or ‘have you considered our other shit?’ The hold music doesn’t suck and it’s only interrupted by an actual person that can help you.

No script when you are put through. Just me, the user, and whatever I can cobble together and cajole into a solution.

And there’s no fucking AI.

They never asked me for that (UK here). Was up and running with just the basics in minutes. Are you on a list? 😅

They do have a waiting/payment cycle period on their server offering before they’ll open mail ports. Once you qualify, you still need to raise a ticket to ask. That was a bit annoying as my new ISP is stricter with the ports than prior, meaning I had to wait before my relay workaround could send mail.

Same setup here, Hetzner/Rclone with enc. Script runs daily on the NAS to beam everything up. Very happy.

Make at least one offline copy of what you need to decrypt and keep separate though. An inaccessible encrypted backup is no backup at all.

The foot in question

Persistence, mostly.

Learning the word ‘in’ and what pointing at the other room/snapping fingers means was the first step. Took a while, but enough picking up/putting down, blocking and gentle scooting got the point home.

After that, get them ‘in’ and start making food on the counter, not direct to bowls on the floor. When a cat crosses the boundary, stop serving up and put them back in either by command or physically. Be belligerent about it if you need to be. Resume/repeat until everyone’s dishes are ready.

When ready, I call the first one in by name and put bowls down. The rest quickly follow.

You may find that the cat with the most bossiness/brains/food drive helps keep the others back on pain of biffing, cause they know intrusion means food delay.

We have a gang of 3 with occasional visitors. They have been taught to wait in the living room while breakfast is prepared, because being mobbed at 5am is a trip hazard.

Still, the orange insists on at least some form of rebellion, and will wait patiently with one foot distinctly over the line between rooms.

Why pick shit out of your cereal, when you can just get the other brand that doesn’t have shit in it?

At least they’ve zapped the acceptable ads out of it :)

Ironfox is my current pref for mobile, backed by uBO & a VPN to a box running pfsense.

ABP hasn’t been relevant for years, because they started on “acceptable ads” back in 2011.

Anyone with sense has long since moved on.

Odd one. Accessible using an app, not on browser though.

Will need an alternative if you need to port forward, but for general use you can’t fault them

UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.

Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.

Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.

I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.

So many varieties, it would be like trying to list “stew”.

Frequently contains garlic, so go with no just to be safe. Our creature (in pfp) loves the smell and always thinks he’s getting some, bless.

It’s not, and it’s the bloody daily heil too.

Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.

For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.

Oh nee :((

It’s a Synology NAS so will work with the Synology DSM integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/synology_dsm

There’s definitely ways to poll the sensors of other devices though. I had some janky sensors set up before for monitoring a standard Linux box.