I know, and I fully understand if you stay far away from PIA for those reasons. But like I said, PIA has proven (in court) that they actually provide anonymity.

I know this was all a big deal when PIA was taken over, and everybody was afraid PIA would be ruined. But none of that happened. Maybe it’s just a matter of time, who knows.

PIA has port forwarding and have proven not to log user data too.

My Plex server is nothing more than a Raspberry Pi tied to a SSD.

I use both and let the “arr suite” decide which one to chose. I mainly use torrents for international stuff like movies, usenet for local (Dutch) stuff like TV series.

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Why don’t you host your own server? You need as much as NUC or Raspberry Pi even combined with a couple of harddisks or SSD’S.

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Glasses

Guess I’m not traveling to Japan then

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I feel your pain, I wish pi’s could be powered with PoE without modifications.

Yes I think you’ll need Home Assistant for that. You can add any Zigbee device to Homekit if it’s connected to Home Assistant; that’ll bypass the Hue account requirement.

Unfortunately I cannot answer that question. Opticians don’t use alcohol to clean glasses, they often use white spirit to clean lenses. Alcohol can potentially damage your frame (if it’s a ‘plastic’ one).

Just buy a Zigbee stick and you don’t have to change all your existing hardware.

Shelly works with Wi-Fi which I don’t prefer personally.

Hot water can damage your anti reflective coating. It can cause it to come ‘loose’.

The rinsing is indeed done to get rid of sand or dirt particles which is the main cause of scratches.