Not trying to go down a rabbit hole, nor invade your teen’s privacy, but have you done any kind of packet inspection on what’s going out/in? Teens can surprise you with the kind of stuff they’re up to sometimes.

I’m not sure why your resolver started acting up but what you’re describing doesn’t sound like normal cause/effect. Four people on a residential connection, even if you throw in a ton of electronic devices and iot/crap that calls home constantly shouldn’t cause any kind of ISP engagement.

Not like it really matters, for 99.9% of people having a forwarder is easy and just fine and there isn’t good reason to troubleshoot it if there’s a working solution. I’m pretty privacy conscious and I don’t even think having my own forwarder is worth the hassle, I am just choosy about my upstream.

My theory at this point is that it’s the equivalent of an audio editing meme. I think they just want to see how often they can get it into a final cut, for the lulz.

If pi hole is configured to use another DNS it will still forward your request, just not to your ISP DNS server. Essentially you’re providing your DNS requests to a 3rd party, for a slight boost to performance (because they’ll have tons of stuff cached and can do recursive queries faster if you’re requesting a site not in their cache.) Your web pages will load faster because you don’t have an SBC trying to manually figure out what’s the IP for bigfuckdaddyhairbrushemporium.net

The downside is you’re exposing your DNS queries to a 3rd party and it’s a bit of a privacy hit, as the upstream DNS server you select has your public IP correlated with your DNS requests. Doesn’t really matter to most, but it does for some.

Even if your ISP did have something in place to try and prevent abuse I find it unlikely it would trigger over normal traffic. Do you have a huge network/many hosts/exposed services?

And if that didn’t terrify you, I also prefer touchpads now. 🙃

Yep, really only use them at home

-Native desktop is for random shit

-“Fun” is for games, and… Fun stuff

-“Work Shit” is work shit

-“Bidness” is for home stuff that’s not necessarily mindless entertainment. Banking, home projects, etc

“Schoo” is for college

Bidness desktop is the only one that’s a giant beast. So many windows and tabs, each FF instance is relating to a home project with a ton of tabs, can be car shit, electronics, networking, whatever. So much shit. It’s like having too many tabs open but exponentially bad.

You haven’t really given enough information about your config to diagnose.

If you’re able to access it from your local network but not your outside network it’s a port forwarding/firewall or routing issue. My guess is it’s a firewall issue either on your network edge (likely integrated into your router) or on your server that’s hosting immich.

Unless you do one of the following you won’t be able to access it from outside your network:

-set up a VPN and tunnel into your network. Wireguard or tailscale/zerotier will be easiest.

-set up port forwarding correctly. Not my first choice, best to VPN in rather than poke holes in your firewall, especially if you’re a noob.

-set up a reverse proxy. This is a bit more complicated than a VPN or overlay VPN (tail scale etc), but it works fine and will be secure as well.

If you haven’t done one of those three things then you won’t be able to access anything from outside your network, for good reason - your firewall is by default set up to deny connections that are initiated from outside your network, so when you’re trying to connect from the outside it looks at your traffic trying to start a connection to your server and naw dawg’s it.

Edit: just saw from another comment you’re not able to connect from your home Wi-Fi. If that’s the case, are you running a VPN on your phone? That can cause problems. Have you tried using the server’s local IP instead of your external IP? 192.168.x.x most likely. You can try to disable the server’s firewall and see if that lets you connect as well. Is your server on the same subnet as your phone? 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x won’t talk unless you set your router up correctly.

Just shooting in the dark here without more info

Edit2: if you’re running inmich in a container or VM your configs on that might not be set up correctly to allow you to reach it as well. It can be a lot of things but my money is on firewall/routing somewhere. Start by making sure you’re trying to connect to the local IP of the server, then try to disable server firewall (don’t forget to enable it again whether that solves it or not), and see if that works.

Um, TPMs for sure provide meaningful security. Maybe their use is implemented poorly a lot of the time, AND they can be abused to hold control over hardware you’ve purchased, but low level exploits are for sure a thing and TPMs and other dedicated hardware security modules (for enterprise) most definitely serve a purpose.

They’re a response to the ever evolving advancement of cyber exploits. Don’t knock them on principle, take affront to when they’re used poorly.

I haven’t, but it’s easier to divide things cleanly and quickly into 3rds when you don’t have to go down to 1/10000 of the whole length to translate it effectively.

It’s why standard metric sheets of plywood (that I’ve seen - probably varies from country to country but when I was in Southeast Asia and Europe) come in 1200mm x 2400mm, because 12 and 24 are more easily divisible into equal sections than 10.

This is the same advantage that the foot/yard have over the meter.

A supervisor introducing their people works, but giving people the chance to introduce themselves sends a signal from the outset that they’re invited to speak at the meeting. Usually that’s my preference, but it depends on the meeting.

A good example of when I think a supervisor should introduce everyone is a meeting where a team lead is presenting a plan to a director that doesn’t know everyone - the team lead introduces their people, and does the majority of the speaking, but can turn to a technician or an area subject expert to field a specific question that comes up.

To me generally, my people are at a meeting because their input is valued. I want them to speak for themselves, and that begins with them introducing themselves. If you’re there to observe I’ll introduce you, otherwise I want them to know they’re there to listen AND speak.

Isn’t that because a driver will instinctively pull left (instinct to protect their own body) when facing a head on collision in many cases? Also the rate of being thrown from the vehicle, being pierced by objects from outside the vehicle, and the risk of unsecured things (including passengers not belted in - wear your goddamn seatbelt!) flying forward from the back all being higher?

Not sure how the saying still works if those types of things are the main causes for passengers riding shotgun being statistically higher to get fatally injured

Yes. Shmoozing during official meeting time is a waste of everyone’s time. Keep it for before/after, it serves its purpose, but once the meeting starts it should be business oriented.

Respect people’s time.

As another poster said, sometimes it’s useful and sometimes it’s a waste of time.

I frequently encounter meetings with outside entities for a bunch of stuff related to various large projects/initiatives and the outside entity will bring anywhere from 3-8 random people I’ve never heard of, and in turn we bring a similar number of people they haven’t met or interacted with directly (a good example is a logistics director or facilities manager for a building).

Introductions to go around the room in the format “hello, I’m ________ and I’m the ________, I do the __________ for _________” are good to just be like “oh ok you’re the ______ person, got it”

Going around the room and asking everyone to say where they’re from and their favorite food and least favorite movie, ALWAYS a waste of time unless you’re a grade schooler.

Edit: ignore the italics, not sure why they’re there and I don’t really care to figure it out

Sure, but that doesn’t translate into real world as well, it doesn’t cleanly divide on a tape/calculator, which is what I was saying is an advantage.

I’ve done years of construction with metric. I’m very familiar with it.

I would counter your point that you are the one who is unfamiliar with imperial measures if it sounds like goobledigook to you. Yeah, it’s weird if you’re unfamiliar with it. But in practice it is easier to work with for many day to day applications for humans.

You have to get used to it, same as folks that are familiar with imperial have to get used to metric. I would never say that metric is bad and if I had to choose one until I die I would probably choose metric due to the ways the different volume/length/mass measures align together, but they’re both fine. Even the advantage of the alignment in different areas practically never affects anyone in day to day living, even if it’s more elegant.

This is a dumb hill for you to die on when you haven’t demonstrated actual experience to back your opinion, and I attribute it more to a superiority complex of some sort than a good argument.

Metric has its advantages but imperial does as well, primarily that the units of measure that humans generally interact with have more whole number factors than in metric, making it very easy to “work with.”

A foot is 12 inches, which has whole number factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A yard is three feet.

So, it’s really easy to divide things into half, quarters, thirds, etc. Great for construction math, great for a lot of stuff.

I’m not saying that you can’t achieve the same end with metric. I’ve lived in many countries and I’m very familiar with both, and I know 333mm is pretty dang accurate if you want to divide a meter in thirds, but it’s not an exact measurement.

For most use I don’t think it really matters. Metric is a much “cleaner” system but imperial does have its advantages.

They both work. Nobody quibbles about which version of an oz you’re using in daily life. I bet most people don’t even know there’s different versions because it doesn’t make a difference in 99.9% of situations, and in situations where it does people know the differences.

I’ll caveat this by saying that I detest gerrymandering and think it’s one of the roots of the decline of the US political systems.

That being said, I’m going to answer a question you might not have even asked with a bunch of information that doesn’t answer things better than “it’s complicated.”

The easiest “fair” way to divide up districts is based on equal polygons (say squares that are XX miles/km on an edge, for simplicity’s sake). The issue is that this doesn’t take into account population gradients due to terrain and zoning, or cultural/ethnic clusters. So, on its face it looks reasonable but you’ll end up with districts that cover a city with 1 million people of diverse cultural makeup standing equal with a district of 1000 people that are culturally/ethnically homogenous. Not actually fair.

So, you can try to draw irregular shapes and the next “fair” way to try and do that is to equalize population. Now you quickly devolve into a ton of questions about HOW to draw the districts to be inclusive and representative of the people in the overall area you’re trying to subdivide.

Imagine a fictional city with a cultural cluster (Chinatown in many American cities for example), a river, a wealthy area, a low income area, and industrial/commercial areas with large land mass and low resident populations.

How do you fairly draw those lines? You don’t want to disenfranchise an ethnic minority by subdividing them into several districts, you might have wealthier living on the river, you might have residents with business oriented interests in the industrial areas AND low income… It quickly becomes a mess.

A “fair” districting can look gerrymandered if you’re trying to enfranchise separate voting blocs in proportion to their actual population.

The problem is that politicians play this song and dance where they claim they’re trying to be fair (until recently in Texas where GOP said the quiet part out loud and just said they want to redraw lines to get more seats) but in reality they are setting up districts that subdivide minority blocs into several districts that disenfranchise their voting interests.

It’s disgusting, it’s a clown show. But none of OPs photos are representative of what a good district looks like, because every location is different and there’s likely an incredibly small number of locations that would divide that cleanly, if any.

So, it’s complicated. Needs to be independently managed outside politics as best as possible and staffed by smart people and backed up by good data.

Yeah, I read a couple books a month. Not interested in playing one disguised as a video game. They serve different purposes.

Reading goes at my pace which is way, way faster than a game. Story-based games are way too slow and not nearly rich enough to replace a book.

Cool if people like it, obviously there’s something there that clicks with people. But I think it’s boring AF.

I listen to podcasts to get to sleep. I have some earbuds that I can use single-sided, and either of the sides can connect on their own (doesn’t have a master/slave connection where only one actually connects to phone and slave connects to master)

I go to bed with one or the other. During the night I might switch the bud to the other side, both sides can fit in either ear falling out and the sound is fine, even though they’re designed for only one ear. YMMV with that.

But this is the best way I’ve found.

There’s little Bluetooth speakers or vibrator bars that are designed to sit underneath your pillow and they’re quiet enough that a partner won’t hear it, but you can. I’ve tried those as well but you have to have your head on the pillow in a specific way for them to work and I don’t like being “confined” to that specific position.

I lay on my back and both sides so this works best for me.