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Congratulations on the job, hope you find it tolerable and that it pays well!

Only doing resolution for your own domain and dnssec solve pretty much all those issues and is pretty darn easy.

And I did say that the web gui is what you need to lock down, DNS has no vulnerabilities exploitable through port 53 that lets an attacker take control of the server.

I'd say a few of our largest Cathedrals are good candidates. The Jesus statue in Rio naturally. The problem really is that it's only ceremonial/ornamental buildings that have any likelihood of standing through the rapid modernization of our cities and most we've built in recent years aren't very robust nor interesting since we consider expensive, large, massive ornamental structures a waste of tax payer money these days.

You can setup a tunnel from your Hetzner VPS to your home with say Netbird and then run stuff that would be a bit to expensive to run on rented hardware. Like say Nextcloud, Matrix or game servers, on your RPi while still having them web accessible thanks to the tunnel.

Yeah, much better to, if she protests the money, go "no no but we might need some help in the garden..." And then say she can consider it a down payment on that if that feels better for her but that really it's just that you care for them as you should care for your neighbors.

Worth noting that for new releases far from everything gets released online, and overall the arr focus is on lossless which is the gap in the market. So if you're a (digital) Audiophile with high-end DACs and Headphones then yeah sure, but if you're not and just want to listen to music then no, it's not worth it in my opinion. It's harder to share a banger with a friend, you'll be late to the party when someone new is discovered and you'll need to curate your own playlists all the time. Not to mention filling up your drive with album tracks you're going to listen to once at most.

Rich and famous people always act shocked when the rules apply to them as well...

Lithium is still going to be king in small batteries, i.e. for appliances, laptops, phones, toys etc and those uses are only growing and won't be replaced by Sodium-Ion unless we see even more breakthroughs there and none in Lithium-Ion.

And I explicitly said "unless you want to rely on a big player".

Personally I'm very fed up with AWS, Cloudflare and Google virtually owning the modern Internet. I selfhost to get away from their spying and oligopoly so routing DNS through them is simply out of the question, for me.

And really it's not that hard these days with pre-packaged Docker containers. I have a fairly complex setup and while I have put hours into it it wasn't rocket surgery by any means. It's also quite healthy to understand how DNS actually works if you work with the Web imo.

It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.