Air cooling is really quite good unless you're running a monster CPU with like 200W+ of TDP.

Anything Firefox based with uBlock origin. Don't see a single ad or anything on mine.

Basically everything. Self hosting doesn't rely on public access.

Larger drives, because less power consumption.

Also less overall failures to deal with, if you have 10 drives vs 2 drives the chance of failure is higher.

Especially with 12TB drives being under $100 now for refurbs.

KVM also allows access if the machine isn't booted up, so like mounting remote recovery images, re-installing an OS, and changing BIOS settings and that kind of thing.

I just watched this a few hours ago and it's really cool! I never thought something of this speed would be possible in a garage with $1k or so in parts.

Bluesky is a lot easier to use vs fediverse stuff, discovering stuff is also easier in my experience vs mastodon.

Passkeys are also weirdly complex for the end user too, you can't just share passkey between your devices like you can with a password, there's very little to no documentation about what you do if you lose access to the passkeys too.

By default it should be configured to allow all outgoing, and block all incoming. That's perfectly fine for a desktop/laptop and you don't need to mess with it.

You can't really do that much outgoing filtering with a firewall that will be useful, because basically everything operates on port 80/443, and often connects to the same CDNs or datacenter IPs for multiple services.

Instead DNS blocking is a much more effective way to handle it, plus uBlock Origin in your browser.

I imagine trustpilot is where people go to vent about bad service because it'll come up when you search for cloudflare reviews.

GPS is one-way receive only, so just using GPS and the others doesn't compromise privacy.

Have you tried bookmarking things instead of leaving them open as tabs?