Ah, I can see the appeal but it’s not for me then. :)

What is the gain compared to running something battle tested like zfs or mdraid?

I’ve never used it, but bookmarked the github. Cheers. :)

22 out of 22 books i checked at Kobo had Adobe DRM. :(

That was an interesting read.

If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

Eh, go for something simple like Fedora KDE and teach them how to update and install stuff through Discover - it’s like App/Play/Microsoft store + the System update all in one.
I imagine Linux Mint and OpenSUSE has similar GUIs to introduce if that’s more up your alley.

They have a couple of good pages where they define solarpunk, I’ll share a few quotes below too.
https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:whatissolarpunk
https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:manifesto

Solarpunk is a rebellion against the structural pessimism in our late visions of how the future will be.
Not to say it replaces pessimism with Pollyanna-ish optimism, but with a cautious hopefulness and a daring to tease out the positive potentials in bad situations.
Hope that perhaps the grounds of an apocalypse (revelation) might also contain the seeds of something better; something more ecological, liberatory, egalitarian, and vibrant than what came before, if we work hard at cultivating those seeds.

Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” […]

1. We are solarpunks because optimism has been taken away from us and we are trying to take it back.
2. We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.
3. At its core, Solarpunk is a vision of a future that embodies the best of what humanity can achieve: a post-scarcity, post-hierarchy, post-capitalistic world where humanity sees itself as part of nature and clean energy replaces fossil fuels.
4. The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in a scary direction.

I don’t know of any good way to view that for all instances at the same time but /instances have a Blocked instances tab you can look through for each and every instance, f.e.
https://lemmy.world/instances

mander.xyz states that the main focus of the instance is the natural sciences, and the scope encompasses all of the STEM fields but do already have !philosophy@mander.xyz, !history@mander.xyz and !linguistics@mander.xyz (although those comms aren’t very active) so I agree it seems to be a good fit.

You can always check lemmyverse, you can see the size of an instance blocklist and how many instances block it here:
https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month

Started with Windows 7 I’d say.
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/11/blocking-telemetry-in-windows-7-and-8-1/

Update 22:51h: The vote originally scheduled for 14 October will not take place because there is no majority for the proposal. It is likely that the EU Commission will now propose to extend the Chat Control 1.0 regulation currently in force that permits providers to scan our messages (if they choose). An extension of this indiscriminate bulk scanning regime is not acceptable. Scanning under this regulation needs to be targeted and limited to suspects where requested by a judicial authority.

• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/

Made a screenshot of https://app.smartdraw.com/editor.aspx?templateId=384d7d86-2472-4f4d-b80f-224189376dc3&flags=128

Those two concerns has been fixed last year.

Does this example match your network?

From your description it already sounds like all of it is in the same network?
That cabling you have in the house doesn’t split your network, Router -> CAT6 - CAT6 - CAT6 -> Switch is the same as Router -> CAT6 -> Switch as far as your equipment is concerned.

This is oversimplified but catches most network topologies (including yours it seems):
Internet -> Router -> Switches -> Client Devices

That and also man hour costs versus hardware costs. It’s often cheaper to buy some extra ram than it is to pay someone to make the code more efficient.

Isnt opnsense only for bsd? I am running linux.

opnsense is bsd based yes, you can either run it on it’s own hardware in front of your server or you can run it as a virtual machine and passthrough your hosts network ports to it for WAN/LAN.

When using a vpn server, only I could access the services right?

You can easily setup vpn users for friends/family but a random person on the internet won’t reach your services if you block access from WAN and forces everyone to go through the vpn server.

Your services would first of all need some sort of integration to report failed authentication attempts to your firewall or you wouldn’t have anything to act on to start the block. Sounds complicated edit: and also what fail2ban does by reading logs it seems.

If I were you I would ponder if it wouldn’t be easier to just setup a headscale/wireguard/openvpn server and connect to your other services through that.

My favourite home firewall right now would be opnsense