Fuck them. Variety of thought is why I'm here. The tankies suck, but I think of them as a palate cleanser after the right wing crap in mainstream media.

You're conflating "Lemmy" with the behavior of a single instance. This is actually the strength of a federated platform; don't like how an instance or community is operating? start your own or move to one more to your way of thinking.

I think 7070s are relatively old, so you should be fine? I've never installed Linux onto an optiplex though.

Depends on your hardware. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 onto an old Dell laptop with zero issues. If you're using new hardware you're more likely to have issues.

Yes Ubuntu can read NTFS. And yes, I've found Plex runs happily on low spec Linux machines. Running mine on an Ubuntu VM with 2GB ram allocated quite happily.

Plex install on Linux is very easy from memory.

Cisco bought OpenDNS a few years ago,

I read that as "meathead" and was about to ask what it referred to... duh.

I've had navidrome setup for a while, but could never find a really good client for my android phone... thanks for the Symfonium link, it looks great. Will definitely give it a go.

Today has been rather tropical.

Good. Fucking banks make enough off the Australian public. Their willful ignorance when people are taken for a ride isn't acceptable.

Minor correction... The Voice doesn't exist between the two houses of government. It will be an advisory body to parliament, thats it.

This is why I don't see the point of the whole thing. If it gives no special powers/rights... whats the point? I'd rather see an official treaty than a powerless voice.