Not that I was buying a Porsche anyway, but I wouldn’t buy any car with built in Google apps.

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.

Ad revenue in August was down 60% year over year, the report said.

Good

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.

Clickbaity title.

Mozilla has provided an update to Firefox version 118.0.1 to close a vulnerability that is already being used to attack Chrome users.

For the second time this month, Mozilla has to patch a 0-day vulnerability in Firefox that initially seemed to affect only Chrome and its derivatives.

Yes it’s being exploited, yes you should update, but the vulnerability is not actively exploited in Firefox as far as we (they) know of.

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.

Glasses

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.

Optometrist here; rinse with cold or ambient temperature tap water (don’t use hot water!), use dishwashing soap without citric acid if the glasses are really dirty, dry with a clean cotton cloth.

Lost lemmings

Who would have expected that?!

In other words, this only affects Chromium based browsers.

Maybe this would be a great addition to their HR or management department.

Not with updating the OS, but you said “updating their Pixel line” which is exactly what this is.