Can't believe no one has mentioned Home Assistant. Automation engine for home and have local control over almost everything "smart" at home.

What dreams may come, 1998 movie with Robin Williams.

I bought some sinopé thermostats and I’m happy with them. The have zigbee versions that I’m using and other than having to resend the time on daylight savings time changes they’ve been solid. I think they have a model that supports a thermocouple for floor applications.

Something like this happened to me. Change the static IP (configure your NAS to get its IP from DHCP) and fix the IP on the UniFi UI.

As an immigrant that came to the West Coast I appreciate what you say here as it helps me (us) understand better the reasoning behind the banning of religious symbols in Quebec.

That’s my take too. I use DoH and to work around this I created a hosts file with some archive sites.

High chances you're using cloudflare dns. Google for cloudflare archive.is to find out more.

Without a doubt, for me it's Re-animator. This movie also introduced me to HP Lovecraft.

MadAI’s disease.

I guess we didn’t learn when we did it with cows.

Iain Banks. All of his sci-fi books.

I recently saw an article about him on The Guardian that will be more eloquent than I can be.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/29/where-to-start-with-iain-banks

Just be aware that he wrote both fiction and sci-fi. Iain M Banks is how he signed his sci-if ones.

Have you considered installing Proxmox? That way you can then test as many distros as possible and even play a bit with containers. I configured it recently and I'm having a lot of fun being able to take snapshots and then doing crazy things with an easy way to recover from my failed experiments.

Thanks both for the explanation.

It would be nice to have a page that shows the connection status between servers; I'll have to look for where to suggest new features, that way people can go to that page to see if something is going on instead of asking like I did.

Growing pains I guess.... after a while we'll be used to this. :)