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  • Maybe I can describe my favorite outcome of this:

    The Fritzbox serves as modem and connects to my phone and a nextcloud-server. One LAN-connection is plugged into the 'internet-port' of the openWRT-router.

    The openWRT-router is connecting all my PCs, Smartphones and my home-assistant-Pi. On the OpenWRT-router every connection to the internet is tunneld through NordVPN to hide my location. And every device connected to the OpenWRT-router uses the Pihole as DNS-Server. And I want to be able to use PiVPN (wireguard) to tunnel into my OpenWRT-network to be able to reach the home-assistant-Pi and to enjoy the benefits of the Pihole and NordVPN while I travel.

    Is that even possible? My main concern is the NordVPN-part and if it works together with the Pihole and the PiVPN. I have a very limited understanding of VPNs and DNS-Server and I don't want to make myself vulnerable.

  • Thank you for your answer! I guess you are right, I should connect everything to OpenWRT and use the Fritzbox only as modem. In that case I have to figure out how the pihole, NordVPN on the router level and a piVPN all work together on one router. My head hurts.

  • Turn the living room into a garage. Or the front yard. Parking a car in front of your house isn't a right. In a perfect world: If there is no space for parking, then it should be considered to just not own a car.

  • May I ask what power outlets you are using? I tried to find some with the ability to show me power consumption and where I don't need a Aqara-Bridge or something, just the SkyConnect-Dongle on my Pi.

  • I had fun playing Dink Smallwood (I think the Dink Smallwood HD Version on Android). You run around, solve tasks, and work your way through the story.

    It is, as you described, not actually great, but great in a sense that you can have much fun with it. I especially liked the humor.

  • I agree with you, Apple shouldn't be supported in any way and I think of them as e-waste as well - their repairability is a joke. But before I knew anything about GNU/Linux I bought a Microsoft Surface Book 2. A friend introduced me to Linux and the project linux-surface convinced me to get rid of every Microsoft software I had. Maybe Asahi will do the same for other people.

  • It doesn't suck, it's just different from what you are used to. Especially the compatibility to Excel-Formulars impresses me.

    But of course there are open source alternatives. OnlyOffice is often recommendet if you prefer the Microsoft Office look. I think you could also self host it to make it a real alternative to google docs, but I haven't looked into it.

    Avoid Openoffice, it sounds similar to Onlyoffice. It is the predecessor of libreoffice and deprecated.

  • If you have a nextcloud you can install cospend on it. On your android you can use the app MoneyBuster, it will sync with your nextcloud/cospend. MoneyBuster is available in the F-Droid store.

    It is very usefull if you want to track your own spendings as well as all the spendings of a group when on holiday.

  • Cars make sense if you have to haul a lot of stuff. Craftsmen in the city, firetrucks, ambulances, police, farmers,... The right car for the right job is not the problem of our car dependency and doesn't need a solution.

  • What makes you think that the majority of people noticing the enormous car dependency can't drive? I bet the opposite is true, people driving a lot will notice the lunacy earlier. If they aren't completely stupid and blind.

  • Does it matter if I am Canadian or not? The problem is the same all over the world. But yes, the USA and Canada seem especially fucked.

    Feels like you are repeating what i wrote. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. We need to reduce car dependency everywhere. In some places it will be harder/nearly impossible, in other places it will be easier.

    And I also like what someone else wrote in this thread: we are discussing if we should keep the most terrible consequences of car dependencies. I vote we do not.

  • Of course there are always scenarios where a person needs a car. If you have to live 30 km away from the next city and public transportation isn't an option (maybe a dial-a-bus kinda system) you probably have to take a car.

    If you live 'rural' like me, 4 km away from the next city, there is barely anything you have to take the car for. And if you need to haul something you could rent a car in the city (if you don't have a own car). Still nearly all my neighbours own one car per person, at least two per household.

    People like you amaze me. You take it for granted that everyone is able to afford and maintain a safe car and is able to park it wherever they want to. This is the narrowminded worldview of old, saggy village-dwellers.

    Don't take it too personal, but your and many other peoples inability to understand that there can be a systematic problem with too much car dependency without attacking your individual way of living is quite annoying.