You might want to check out the self-hosted communities on Lemmy for more info.

If you want to use Cockpit, the 45drives Cockpit modules make dealing with SMB easier. I think TrueNAS is a better option. If you want more flexibility, then Proxmox VE is a popular choice.

I think I’ve seen this one before.

Recently? The Peripheral, and Kaos.

Untrusted devices should really be on their own VLAN. You will have much better control over them and their ability to reach out to the net, or gather info on your network and other devices. Some IoT devices have their DNS hardcoded, so they will ignore your Pihole anyway - you will need to redirect the DNS with outbound NAT to combat this.

I can see another John Oliver episode incoming.

I don’t have one myself, but several of the guys on YouTube use them. See “The Home Automation Guy” or “Smart Home Solver“. I can’t remember the brand they use.

If you’re not using a VPN, it’s possible your ISP is throttling your connection when it sees p2p traffic. Just another thing to look into.

And Sweden, just this week.

No, this one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt29233308/ about 87North and making The Fall Guy, John Wick, etc. It’s worth watching.

Did you watch the series ’Action’?

Worth noting that this is from 2016.

The first season left me a little disappointed, but the second season fixed all of my complaints. It is a great combination of comedy and heart.

Good album, so many great tracks.

Excellent news!

I really enjoyed this game, that’s a good deal.

Yep, Aussie here. Not a very good gardener though.

Smarter Every Day, Veritasium

The new Ken Burns doco “Leonardo da Vinci” was good. Finished S2 of “Based on a true story”. Up to date on Silo and Shrinking. Just finished episode 3 of Jackal.

Silo S2, Based On A True Story S2, and just started The Day Of The Jackal.

Before you move to Linux, have you had a look at OpenCore Legacy Patcher? It will allow you to install newer versions of MacOS on your unsupported MBP. Mr Macintosh’s channel on YouTube is a good resource for this.