Every earbud I had broke at least once during their warranty period. My linkbuds S recently broke the third time. Only one of my issues was battery related, but its still nice to have the option to use them after the warranty ends.

German here. Nobody ever uses SMS, literally nobody. They are only used for 2fa.

They allow you to drive on certain roads in some countries.

Let’s be honest here. The amount of people this applies to is miniscule.

You can add a private DNS in the settings. It’ll allow you to have a dns level ad blocking experience without having to use any of the dubious ad blocking apps. You also don’t need root or a VPN.

I’m using my own dns server, but keep in mind that it needs to support DoT. You can’t just enter any IP, because of the certificate check (the dns requests are encrypted using TLS).

dns.adguard.com works, but as is the case with all dns services, they will be able to see every domain you access. So keep that in mind.

Do you remember what was written here? I have no idea and it seems like it got me banned temporarily. I don’t remember writing a comment in this thread at all.

Cheapest VPS I found (1$ per month):

• Technitium DNS (supports DoH, DoT, DoQ without much hassle)

Proxmox (I want to switch to TrueNas Scale in the future):

Hardware

• 6 Core AMD Ryzen 5 Pro (for ECC support)
  • I used to have a dual xeon setup, but needed to get my power usage down
• 32 GB Ram
• 1TB ssd storage for images, ZFS based
• 32TB usable storage of HDDs, ZFS based
• Nvidia Quadro P400 for h265 transcoding

Software

• Authentik SSO
• Matrix (Synapse)
• Plex (Sonarr Radarr Lidarr Tdarr)
• A fileserver for network access from Windows PCs
• Nextcloud AIO
• A Telegram bot
• uptime kuma
• paperless
• satisfactory game server
• grafana + influx
• home assistant
• a mail server for internal use only