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  Private DNS for this who are new or maybe unfamiliar I responded to someone in comments on a post that may not get as much visibility, and wanted to share something that might help some others sail the seas but also while not sailing, too. I referenced Quad9 DNS as probably one of the best private DNS you can use, Swiss based, no log, no tracking, no data to sell, etc. They also implement DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, QUIC, ECS (which you may or may bot want), malware blocking, content filtering, and may...

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  I love homelabbing as much as the next guy… But at my current job, i get enough fix to not do so much at home. And work sort of acts like my Dev environment and home is my production anymore. I want to run something? I stand up a test at work and often implement it. Once familiar, now it’s faster to setup something similar at home instead of eating precious family or me time. Having said that. I have NUT servers on every UPS/IDF (about 14) and it’s helped numerous times when power is lost. I...

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  Bitdefender has a good free version, and so does Sophos (or at least they used to)

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  Time to start disabling updates and packages for a bunch of devices. I’m redoing my laptop back up Windows 8.1 just to have it (lightweight and enshitter-free) and then dual booting Linux on there. Desktop already Linux but may download even more ISOs just to have them handy. Will eventually setup p2p for anyone who wants them. I’ve got close to 200tb.

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  Thank you, this looks very interesting and useful! I'm going to set this up and test it out with a couple friends.

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  I once had a fortune cookie that read something like this, *"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want"*. And let me tell you, I have a lot of experience! That cookie made me OK with learning the "hard" way.

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  Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!

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  I used Copilot to tell me how to create a GPO to uninstall and block Copilot from getting reinstalled on our domain PCs. Windows periodically reinstalls it through updates 🤔 we'll see if it works.