My guess is your heat pump doesn’t have a good dehumidify mode. The thermostat does, but it’s just turning on the A/C. A good dehumidify mode is a very slight A/C and moves a lot of air. So, if your compressor doesn’t handle enough steps down, you’re spending a lot of electricity for not much effect. A dehumidifier with a continuous drain might be a better solution for you.
Seconded obsidian + syncthing. My phone and my wife’s phone sync the obsidian notes folder to each other. We have shopping/grocery lists. So when one of us thinks of something we put it on the list, and when one of us goes to the store we have a combined list. It’s very nice.
Not sure there was anything you could have done differently, but there is plenty that you learned. Don’t give up, think of it like an extended interview process that you got further in, but didn’t work out. If you got one, you can get another. Next time ask for a setup with wifi, preferably a laptop. Most companies do laptops in my experience anyway. The fact that this last company insisted on wired AND blocked your travel router goes to show how incompetent they were. You might have dodged a bullet. If the next company insists on wired, now you can choose to explain your situation or jump straight to the private room for work.
Wasn’t too difficult as they already offered Linux as a supported option. But I had to justify it. I was already using a linux VM for all my actual work. So I complained about all the buggy behavior I had experienced. Didn’t have to exagerate too much. I was properly modivated after IT sent out an email announcing the forced migration to Win11.
I use FireDragon. Not on your list, but it’s yet another Firefox fork to look at.
Yup! Here’s a helpful link in case you feel like spreading the joy.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-use-microsoft-defender-linux/
Microsoft Defender.
I convinced my work to let me use linux on their laptop. They sent me instructions for setup. One of them was to install Microsoft Defender, had a link to the Ubuntu package and everything. Blew my mind.
Disclaimer: I’m not a networking guy, but I’ve worked with them.
If you’re looking for security, you set up vlans. I don’t know enough about your setup to know if you setup a vlan, or just a separate subnet.
The goal is to have separate vlans, to block all traffic between the two networks, and then add exceptions in the ACL. The ACL is essentially a firewall between the two vlans.
With this in place the smart device can’t scan your network to gather info. Also, if it gets infected, it can only attack through the opened routes or the other devices on the vlan.
Does your pc’s mobo have 2 m.2 slots? If so, that’s a great solution. If you do decide to stick with linux, that gives you two hdds. If not, you might want to consider buying a m.2 ssd to usb enclosure too. You can use it to transfer files you want to keep or for ventoy or backups.
Dissolve the HOA.
Just checked my wife’s laptop. Local account, secure boot off, windows 10. It had a message telling me to setup a microsoft account to ‘finish encrypting the device’. I clicked turn off, and it’s currently decrypting the hard drive. Blech.
Cloud-based. If a product won’t work if my internet dies, or I can’t access my data without internet or a subscription, I won’t buy it.
Might need more info about your setup. The reverse proxy probably has some logs you aren’t looking at. Most bots from what I’ve seen do ip:port scans hitting every ip and every port. Nginx reverse proxy manager or something similar isn’t going to forward ip:8123 to home assistant. A straight router port forward will, but the reverse proxy manager will look at the domain GET request for https://ha.hit_the_rails.net to your LAN ip:port. It’s a little security through obscurity as they have to know your sub+domain.
For a time I had port 22 open and forwarded directly to a server. Constant bot traffic. Changed the port, put an ssh honeypot on 22, and it almost completely went away. Sure the bots could be smart enough to scan and find another open ssh port, but they rarely did. I assume because anyone savvy enough to change the ssh port is savvy enough to not allow default logins like ubnt:ubnt and root:1234 which were by far the most common logins I got in the honeypot.
Does it work when you’re booted to a live usb?