Physical media is still the best quality for those of us that care. I rip it to watch digitally, but I like having the physical backup and option to watch with minimal compression.

Doesn’t need to be the case if you segment your network to protect against ARP.

Don’t have the Wi-Fi network “upstream” of the LAN. You want the connection between the LAN and Wi-Fi to be through the WAN so you get NAT protection.

The risk is the ISP Wi-Fi. As long as you’re using WPA with a good long random passkey, the risk is minimal. However, anyone who had access to your Wi-Fi could initiate an ARP spoof (essentially be a man-in-the-middle)

As an FYI: this set up is vulnerable to ARP spoofing. I personally wouldn’t use any ISP-owned routers other than for NAT.

They’ve been an extremely reputable “record-less” VPN for multiple years now.

Damn it, I chose lemm.ee as my backup account (primary is lemmy.world) as it wasn’t the number two…

I’m happy with my ecobees.

He said you have to pick an instance and the instance likely has upload limits. Each limit is set by the person/people running the instance. Like Lemmy.world and Lemm.me are two separate Lemmy instances.

Peer tube is literally just Mastodon/Lemmy for videos…

Technology is confusing to the masses, which news articles appeal to. They likely know what Twitter is, and that’s the best comparison.

You can see for yourself without creating an account: https://mastodon.social/explore

Twitter has gotten A LOT worse since Musk took over. The blue check brigade is given priority across the entire site, so you’re likely to see all the bigots and qidiots more than those engaging in actual discourse.