Run a noads DNS on the phone, either libredns or mullvaddns, neither outlook or Gmail will show ads.

In fact you won’t have any ads period.

I’m running sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, jellyseer, jellyfin and craftycontroller (minecraft server) all running on CasaOS on Ubuntu server. I also have Twingate connector installed on the host to allow secure access from outside the home.

I have a home media server (which may or may not host an arr stack) running on a 5 year old i5 NUC withb16Gb RAM and two USB external SSDs for storage.

So far it manages for the household (3 users) perfectly fine.

You generally don’t need sudo to install flatpaks and actually pretty sure they advise against it.

https://www.antena3.com/noticias/economia/cni-apunta-ciberataque-como-motivo-apagon-electrico-generalizado-espana_20250428680f78ac5d71dc778a92db60.html

Telecinco Noticias were reporting that.

Spanish news media reporting 6 ton10 hours to fully restore power to all regions.

Also still investigating the cause but suspicion falling on a cyber attack.

Antena3 News If you can read Spanish this is informative but also has videos of various impacts.

I run my home media server ( and intel NUC i5, so nothing super powerful) running Ubuntu with CasaOS.

There’s tons of you tube videos to help with CasaOS for self hosting and not just the media side.

I think I only used the terminal to install CasaOS the rest is done from the web gui

All well and good, but realistically any backdoor can be exploited by unfriendly as well as friendly actors.

Also does this mean government agency communication would also be unencrypted or just Joe schmoe?

VAT is applied to all goods irrelevant of origination. Think of it as a federal sales tax instead of a state sales tax.

There are different rates dependent on the goods and some items are VAT free (again this has nothing to do with origin but to do with the product} i.e. I’m fairly sure that in UK children’s clothes are either exempt or VAt at a lower rate.

My home media server is an old nuc mini pc i5 16Gb RAM with attached usb storage running on a Linux distro, runs Jellyfin and a few other applications for the household.

In short yes, an old pc will work fine.

The only superior Linux distro and DE is the one that works for you and meets your needs.

This is different for each user and, frankly, the joy of Linux that it has such a variety as to be able to meet almost everyone’s needs.

For me , personally, thats Debian/Gnome with minimal tweaks but just because it works for my workflow does not make it superior.

Huawei runs it’s own branch of Android since it lost its ability to offer Google services.

In the case you’re not paying for “Android” but for the tech, whatever you think about it it’s a tech that no-one else is yet doing, least of all Apple which in real terms is still playing catch-up with Android and it’s insistance of a walled garden .

Whilst I agree the technology is awesome, £2,000 for a phone, wow, no thanks.

Let’s hope my doomongering is just that, with other countries in Europe starting to swing that way I hope it’s not sign of the future.

An overwhelming majority by seats but only 33% of the popular vote.

36% voted Tory/Reform so voters have not shifted left but split the more right wing vote

I accidentally watched YouTube the other night without adblock, OMFG what an experience.

If I can’t watch with adblock I’ll just stop using it, it’s only a rabit hole to waste time for me anyway.

Yes bit not yet released and has been in backlog for 2 years, not great for a mainstream browser.

No, i mean like a tab bar like every other android browser and desktop.