Well, if you have no kids, dont have strong roots and maybe even have saved a bit of money, I don’t see why you shouldn’t look into migrating somewhere else.

This is not about books.

As long as academias obsession with „if you didn’t publish there (for example Nature), your paper is not worth much“ is still going on, nothing will change.

I have a Unifi router (Unifi cloud Gateway Fiber to be precise), which one you could argue is on the higher end of consumer hardware. But there are also more consumer oriented routers with that capability.

I am certainly not an expert by any stretch. But here are my reasons: Ability to isolate some “sketchy” IOT devices into an IOT only vlan, where they are not allowed to access the rest of the network, only the internet and incoming traffic from the other vlans. Having a “clean” vlan/subnet for servers and services where I can give out static IPs without worrying about collisions with client devices

Exactly. You could say it was unnecessary, but I think we have crossed that line a long time ago.

No. But segregation into vlans has advantages. As this comes with new adresses anyway, might as well tidy up the adress space entirely.

In the end 10.20.20.10 feels much neater than 192.168.174.10.

But yes, you are right, technically the 192.168.xx.yy adress space works the same and has plenty of space for home use.

I attempted to move my whole 192.168.x network without vlan to a new 10.x network with vlans. I am still tracking down services and devices where I hardcoded in the old 192.168. ip adresses.

For audiobooks and podcasts, I always recommend audiobookshelf. Although it is a slightly different usecase than this one here.

You can then also add it as a button to control center. Or create a shortcut if you want to have it on your Lockscreen or Home Screen.

Most people still don’t know that their phones most likely already has a noise generator build in without any extra app (at least on iOS)

Man, I really need to learn ansible…

Yep, I trust MAS.

No. I only have a limited amount of time for maintaining my home infrastructure. I chose my battles.

I think music is the one thing you can still buy digitally and get a non drm version.

Movies on the other hand….

In case of an office vending machine, it could even identify you by your ID, check with the HR AI to see how much you make and adjust prices accordingly

There are machines (like the Futro s740) that can be powered by POE as well.

Check out the Futro S740. It is more powerful than the pi, uses comparable power and still quite compact.

They can be found (in Germany at least) for 40€ with 4gb RAM and about 50€ for 8gb of ram. Ram is upgradeble, so is storage.

If you want something (much) more powerful, there is the Lenovo tiny line, for example the m710q or m720q (one cpu generation newer).

Your router has a redundant power supply?

Bluetooth is not a good Standard for speakers. In fact, there ARE open standards for wireless speakers. For example DLNA