MangoPenguin

That web page is 24MB and took over 11s to load on a gigabit connection and fast PC, to show some text with a font that I find very hard to read.

87 individual .js files !

24MB to read some text written by an LLM just makes me sad about the current state of things. Especially since it reads like it was written by one, with the buzzwords and run on sentences that don't always make sense.

I'd rather read someones opinions and thoughts as they wrote them, even if that means it's harder to understand or has less content.

One of the first things I enable, along with blocking location, microphone, and camera.

I doubt it would affect anything, it takes a very large magnet to damage a HDD from outside the casing.

For what it's worth there are smartwatches with good battery life too, my Garmin Venu 2 lasts at least a week with sleep tracking, workout tracking, and some GPS use through the week.

Backblaze B2 for storage, and I host Healthchecks myself at home.

As I understand it you can do USB-C at a basic 5V level with 2 resistors, and for a watch that would be plenty of power.

Referral tracking with the URL is fine IMO, it's useful for someone running a site to see what other sites they are getting traffic from, and it doesn't really affect my privacy.

I have noticed the RSS feed thing, I assume they want to get site traffic and are preventing people from reading with a feed reader or something?

Are you trying to access the domain from inside your own network that it forwards to? If so that may not work due to the way NAT works.

Try from your cellphone data plan to verify.

It's up to the rider to decide on their personal risk tolerance and wear gear or not. I always find it silly when governments try and protect people from themselves.

If someone hops on a scooter with not even a helmet, flies down the road and injures themselves, that's not an issue for the government to get involved in (unless the scooter malfunctioned or something like that).

However people being reckless and injuring others is an issue too.

Opnsense is also great, and has a webUI for easier setup.

Healthchecks is incredibly nice for this kind of thing, it'll notify you if it doesn't receive a 'success' ping on whatever interval you specify.

I use it for all my Restic backups.

So I wouldn't put Pihole on the internet, but instead set up a Wireguard VPN on your devices and access Pihole via that.

Then you can use the dynamic DNS hostname for Wireguard, and a direct IP for Pihole.

Alternatively you could run Adguard Home instead, as it supports being a DoT and DoH server, both of which work over a hostname on your devices (ie; Android uses DoT for its secure DNS option).