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IP whitelisting

How do you do that? I understand how blocklisting would work but how does whitelisting work in practice? How can you know in advance from which IPs you will connect to your home network in the future? That just seems like a recipe for getting stranded in some hotel without a way into your network.

I'm a bit baffled that this hasn't popped up yet: Sell them on eBay.
Mark them as broken goods/scrap and re-iterate that fact very clearly in the product description. Broken drives often sell for up to 1/3 of the value of a working one, no scamming needed.

I cannot tell you why that is, but my theory is that a lot of folk buy up broken drives in private sales in the hopes that the "broken"-diagnosis is just user error and that the drive is actually fine. Knowing my users that might actually be true in many cases.

Edit: I didn't quite catch that you were not able to successfully overwrite your data. I guess that's a point against selling it. Always encrypt your drives, that way you can always sell them when they break!

Unlimited* plans are always sold on the idea that a sizeable part of the user base aren’t going to use an actual unlimited amount of the resource.

Unless there is a contract regarding a fee over a period of time, there isn’t that much that users can do to compel a service to offer a service they no longer want to offer.

Absolutely! But I don't think that's the point of contention here. The problem is the "abuse" rhetoric, since it's not just incorrect but disingenuous to basically claim that the users did anything wrong here. They're imposing limits because they miscalculated how many heavy users they could handle.
Again, that's a completely reasonable move, but framing it as anything but a miscalculation on their part is just a dick move.

Just destroyed everything they built in 1 fell swoop. There’s absolutely no reason to use Jitsi at this point.

They built a great software. The software is still there.
meet.jit.si is just a demo instance for the software, nothing more. You're supposed to use the software yourself.

Solution: Always be connected to your home network via permanent and mandatory VPN uplink.

Do you get a public IP with Starlink?

Aves is great!

Huh, well that sucks.

Firefox with uBlock Origin - works and always has been working on every device that allows you to install 3rd party browsers.

Correct! Is that particularly important?

I originally had ambitions for a Linux phone but after all my waiting and reasearch it seemed to be too much of a hassle and no gain. After all, you can also have a degooglefied experience with a forked android like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. That's what I went with.

I'd agree with Google EARTH being without alternative, but so far I haven't really found any gmaps feature that OrganicMaps/OSM doesn't provide. Maybe I've never gotten full use out of gmaps?

The Bay never went away. It's always been there for you and it will always be there for you.

You've very likely already encountered it if you have a device with a SIM card! Most any mobile provider routes via a CGNAT - it's exceedingly rare for phones to have public IPs.