Agreed. Set up tailscale (or wireguard + DDNS) and a pi.hole for ad blocking on your phone and laptop whenever you’re away from home.

That’ll let you shake out the issues with running a home server. Once it feels stable and you have a feel for running things reliably, you can try out a home music/media server with Jellyfin, an RSS reader like freshRSS, run your own private file server with NextCloud, sync private notes with Syncthing and Obsidian, watch TV shows and movies on Kodi, and so much more.

But don’t get carried away with a million services at first. Just getting a home server up and running takes some trial and error and luck!

And the 80s Dungeons and Dragons movie is… well, it has Tim Curry.

152mm tall is larger than the Pixel 4a. Not. Compact.

Is there some kind of alternativeto astroturfing going on today? I see they just rolled out a website redesign, but I literally only know them as a spammy SEO-bait site I wind up clicking accidentally when I look for software recs. Everything on the site is generic and AI-generated as hell. Tons of ads, AI generated images, and dark patterns.

Mods, take note.

Honestly I wish Kagi would build their own full Firefox fork and maintain it independently. I already pay for search, I wouldn’t mind paying for my browser if it actually respected me!

Just a nitpick, while ‘brighter’ belongs in objective Pros (as long as the minimum brightness is as dark or even darker than the last gen), ‘bigger’ isn’t a Pro. People have different size preferences and we have spiralled so far beyond the smaller end of size preferences we’re actually getting into ‘too big for anyone’ screens if we go much larger.

FFS, reduce the bezel and keep the screen the same damn size. I know some people love big screens but it is hardly 100% of customers.

Recently switched from a 4a (literally what you just described – it even actually has an aux port) to an iPhone 13 Mini.

The Mini is a better size. Better build. Better standby battery life. Better performance from the A15. No fingerprint unlock is a loss, but FaceID is… fine.

I would kill for another Mini.

Same. I should really learn to use a simpler one, but I love this model and it still seems rock-solid to me after years of use. The best part is not ending up with sharp, dangerous edges on the lid!