I’d make the guess that a lot of family members that would have been offended because they served or at least remember experiencing WW2 are no longer around Ref. It’s easier to disregard an opinion of someone as an “outsider”, even younger family members. But I’d guess that excluding grandpa/Grandma would be a lot harder when they tell you in vivid detail exactly why they fought what you’re voting to have.

He doesn’t mention it by name.

… they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do…

This isn’t new, Trump spoke about project 2025 at Heritage Foundation’s annual leadership conference on April 21, 2022. Since then he’s continued to backpedal away from it including during the debate.

Source from the speech: https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/0bN1BxuVbsx9zytNq0wIGz8MuzViuIncwa8p1GJ1caSzXVFuwZSpKD2JTWh4rk0lpnQPTG3ygB9Pp4kSLGIU_71kiLc?loadFrom=PastedDeeplink&ts=2784.52

Still vote.

Apparently you can save it to Google drive then download the Google drive program and make that folder available offline so it downloads it to the computer.

1. When you setup the Google Takeout export choose Save in a Google Drive folder

2. Install the Google Drive PC client (Drive for desktop)

3. It will create a new drive (i.e. G:) in your explorer. Right click on the takeout folder and select “Make available offline”. All files in that folder will be downloaded by the Google Drive Desktop in the background, and you will be able to copy to another location, as they will be local files.

Yes but the camera should be in a place that can’t be physically tampered with easily since someone could theoretically unplug the camera and plug into your home network and see all your computers or other devices as if they had stolen your WiFi password. A small risk but it’s better to hardwire it somewhere they would need a ladder to get to or get a camera system that connects to a central box inside the house.

I think that was Edison using AC. Apparently it was not part of the war of the currents. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant

If you haven’t played Enderal it’s worth a playthrough. It’s a free total conversion mod of Skyrim.

I’m using a commercial desktop with an i5 Sandy bridge. I maxed out to 32Gb of ram only because I’m running trueNAS, debian with containers, and home assistant. Most RAM goes to trueNAS and trueNAS doesn’t accurately report ram. For CPU, mostly just task limited but I don’t really think thats a proxmox issue. Obviously it’s not going to support an enterprise or even small business but it works for what I need of less than 4 users on my budget.

Proxmox doesn’t really ask for much but I probably would recommend docker for your arm devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

Should cover any polite web crawlers but it is voluntary.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

Might have to put it behind a captcha or other type to severely limit automated access.

It’s not realistic to assume it won’t get scraped eventually. Such as someone paying people to bypass capatcha or web crawlers that don’t respect robots.txt. I also don’t know if Google and Microsoft bundle their AI data collection that doesn’t also remove your site from web search.

OpenAI may have grown a bit fast in relation to the ai hype craze so I don’t know if it’ll hold much water on an anti trust. Nvidia competes with competitors with things like GPUs but is pretty far ahead with ai chips and some data center ai related products. It will be interesting to see if either will go anywhere.

Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.

I keep everything behind a VPN so I don’t have to worry much about opening things up to the Internet. It’s not necessary about the fact that you’re probably fine but more so what the risk to you is if that device is compromised, ex: a NAS with important documents, or the idea that if that device is infected, what can that device access.

You could expose your media server and not worry too much about that device but having it in a “demilitarized zone”, ensuring all your firewall rules are correct and that that service is always updated is more difficult than just one VPN that is designed to be secure from the ground up.

Have you checked and enabled hardware acceleration?

Support and troubleshooting steps are dependent on your GPU and OS.

I’m happy with proxmox in a non-production environment/homeLab. Stable and straightforward.

Just found out from your comment that windows is shutting the door completely on CPUs that don’t support POPCNT. There’s config settings to install Windows 11 on legacy hardware (old CPU, tpm chips, etc) but who knows when they’ll pull the plug on that.

If space isn’t an issue, getting a cheap office surplus machine like a Dell Optiplex SFF line for ~$100 US vs the USFF so that it supports low profile PCI-E for a hba card for more storage, or nvidia quadro p400 for better encoding at like $30-50.

It will probably use a bit more wattage, especially with more HDDs, but still should be around 50w idle for even the old systems.

On Android and I believe IOS it’s a single connection. I would start with the basic functionality (also don’t create a tailscale account with GitHub bc it does weird things with sharing if you ever want to have multiple users).

Once you’ve got the VPN and storage working I can think of two options to give you the functionality of 2 vpns

1. tasker is an android app that can let you automate a lot. It might let you switch vpns when opening say your storage app and switch back a bit easier than toggling it in settings.
2. setup your lap-server at home with an outgoing public VPN so traffic goes mobile device> tailscale> public VPN. Essentially acting like you’re home using your public VPN. This may take some tinkering to work properly, especially when you’re home on the same network. Plus you would definitely see a Network speed impact on your phone.

Tailscale + truenas is a simple solution that should allow OP access outside the network without any network config. E

As others mentioned, you can probably use a 3 gang standard faceplate.

The other option would be using a Shelly this is wired like a 3-way switch inside the box; the outside will look normal. As long as you have space, I think the mini should work but I’m not super familiar with their models.

I setup openvpn on my network originally + duckdns on a dynamic IP in 2021/2022. It’s an “older” protocol but I felt it was easier to setup since it’s been around longer and the tools just make it easy.

Wireguard has speed advantages but being newer, takes more work to see those speed advantages. There’s a docker container called wg-easy that I’ve heard mixed things about (speed in a docker container vs easy to setup).

I used tail scale when I rebuilt my VPN server because I was originally using Oracle Linux (wanted to learn it more but went back to Ubuntu).

If you can get certificates working, wireguard shouldn’t be too difficult. I prefer VPN over exposing multiple ports/protocols for a family or small userbase. If you’re sharing libraries or other services with extended family, I’d probably expose those to the Internet and work on hardening/having that server in a demilitarized zone + certificate based authentication and MFA on any public admin accounts.

My choices are Verizon FiOS and Xfinity. I’d rather stay with FiOS than move to 5G because I do have some applications that benefit from 1% highs being <20ms ping. Plus when I looked at 5G the pricing was still around that $40-50 range for a decent line of service.

It’s just annoying because FiOS has a “2 year price guarantee” for new subscribers but is shafting my prices after 12 months. Xfinity is ~$5 cheaper but setup fees are ~$200 and I have to buy my own modem if I don’t want to pay the $10-20 rental fee. All that assumes Xfinity doesn’t raise their rates in 2 years.