Great Scott!

I keep thinking about doing something similar as I have an EV, solar, and batteries and Home Assistant to pull it all together but I just can't seem to make the maths work on sites like Octoprice. No matter how much I tweak things it always comes out more expensive than Intelligent Go.

I do at least have an automation setup to make the most of the 2 hours of free energy tomorrow. Better than nothing!

I can't use these things together.

Oh no.

Two.

Is down.

First one, on the 3DO. Small selection of exotics and sports cars, realistic (for the time) point-to-point road races with no music to obscure the engine noise, and an annoyingly/amusingly sarcastic rival racer that was obviously just one of the devs.

Each car had its own showcase video followed by a detailed specs sheet with a very enthusiastic voiceover explaining why you should be excited to drive this car. Even the courses had the voiceover treatment.

It truly was a love letter to cars and driving that has never been equalled, and is very telling that it's the only one to have had Road & Track branding. Every subsequent NFS game has been so in name only.

These are really cool, thank you. Added Spook and used it to clean up some broken entities.

2. Sure but there's no reason to openly advertise that yours has open services behind it.
3. Absolutely. There are countries that I'm never going to travel there so why would I need to allow access to my stuff from there? If you think it's nonsense then don't use it, but you do you and I'll do me.
4. See point 3.

We all need to decide for ourselves what we're comfortable with and what we're not and then implement appropriate measures to suit. I'm not sure why you're arguing with me over how I setup my own services for my own use.

Yes and no? It's not quite as black and white as that though. Yes, they can technically decrypt anything that's been encrypted with a cert that they've issued. But they can't see through any additional encryption layers applied to that traffic (eg. encrypted password vault blobs) or see any traffic on your LAN that's not specifically passing through the tunnel to or from the outside.

Cloudflare is a massive CDN provider, trusted to do exactly this sort of thing with the private data of equally massive companies, and they're compliant with GDPR and other such regulations. Ultimately, the likelihood that they give the slightest jot about what passes through your tunnel as an individual user is minute, but whether you're comfortable with them handling your data is something only you can decide.

There's a decent question and answer about the same thing here: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/what-data-does-cloudflare-actually-see/28660

Admittedly I'm paranoid, but I'd be looking to:

1. Isolate your personal data from any web facing servers as much as possible. I break my own rule here with Immich, but I also...
2. Use a Cloudflare tunnel instead of opening ports on your router directly. This gets your IP address out of public record.
3. Use Cloudflare's WAF features to limit ingress to trusted countries at a minimum.
4. If you can get your head around it, lock things down more with features like Cloudflare device authentication.
5. Especially if you don't do step 4: Integrate Crowdsec into your Nginx setup to block probes, known bot IPs, and common attack vectors.

All of the above is free, but past step 2 can be difficult to setup. The peace of mind once it is, however, is worth it to me.

Check out Grip: Combat Racing for a modern take on Rollcage. I haven't played it since early access, though, so I've no idea if it's any good.

Dolby Atmos at no extra cost, except the headset is 10 bucks more than the old version. Seems to me like Dolby Atmos support actually costs 10 bucks.

I do that a lot on my phone but keep forgetting it's a thing on desktop for some reason.

Better than using what? All I see is a bunch of stars.

It's quite normal as chip manufacturing improves and die sizes shrink. Smaller dies need less power and therefore run cooler, it's a win-win. It's also how the various slim models of consoles suddenly appear a few years after the regular version came out.

Presumably streamed via xcloud, which previously needed a separate app.

4 dollars

Nah that one attaches to the twisty rod thing that you get on normal blinds. I need something more like this but I can't find a non-Aliexpress version. Not that it matters cos I'd need 5 of them and that puts the idea out of my price range for the foreseeable future.

Normal to get a 50% discount for paying quickly and without appeal. Last I checked you couldn't pay with Nectar points, though.

Yeah that's normal in Britain for council and government fines (as opposed to often unenforceable private parking charges). The shitty part is that if you try to dispute it they don't put the timer on hold so you essentially play double or nothing on how strong you think your case is. Lose and you have to pay the full thing. Not bitter at all.

TIL they're called plantation blinds! The slats swivel open and closed as opposed to the entire thing raising and lowering but I assume that's what you meant. No external rod or handle, all of the slats are linked inside the frame somehow.

Edit: Actually knowing what they are has helped my search massively. Looks like there's options on Aliexpress, albeit not particularly cheap. Thanks!