Guess we all know what we have to do

Microsoft hate is justified.

I’m in IT, so I don’t really need to handwrite much. Always a computer at the ready.

Thank you for the laugh, I didn’t catch that. Will edit my comment

I am surprised I can even write with pen and paper anymore.

Jokes aside, no. I don’t really handwrite anything anymore.

I didn’t play those more than the first gym. ORAS was infinitely better.

I really stopped caring for Pokemon after X and Y, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The switch games were big misses. I kinda liked Sword and Shield, but they had no lasting power on me. Scarlet and Violet are by far the worst Pokemon games to have ever come out of mainline Pokemon.

I didn’t play through Marcus Arceus at all, even though I own it. Maybe I will give that a shot.

What issues do you have?

I self host as well as use bitwardens service.

I pay $10 a year, and never have I had access issues with it.

My self hosted instance houses everything for my other self hosted services.

I can also have my Bitwarden duplicated to my self hosted instance.

However, the only way to access my Vailtwarden instance is via my network. And for my use case, this is perfect.

Neither of them have I had any downtime; like others have said it’s anecdotal.

I personally love pacman. And of course AUR wrappers like yay.

Pacman is simple and just works. No fuss.

I think one of the biggest hurdles for Linux is that Windows comes preinstalled. People are lazy, and want things to just work.

If companies could sell systems at a reasonable, competitive price, with Linux preinstalled; I do believe we could see folks use it.

The average user does not see a computer the same way a tech-savvy individual does. They want to push the buttons and the computer do the thing.

Sure steam has helped make it more viable for game enjoying folks to hop on board, even if it isn’t just click and play for every game; it has made strides.

We also need support from big entities, but that is likely an uphill battle. For as much as I love open source software, and the entire ecosystem surrounding open software standards; we have players like Microsoft, adobe, and I am sure more that will push back. Including DRM and Anti-Cheat from other companies as well.

The average user isn’t going to know, let alone fight things like kernel level anti-cheat, DRM, and closed standards.

Unfortunately not everyone has the will, the time, or the intelligence to learn something new.

And add in many folks inability to deal with change well.

This is just some of my thoughts on the subject…

For any streaming, Netflix, YouTube, or anything I would always use a computer. Not some awful app on a slow device. No screen of mine needs to be anything besides a screen.

I wouldn’t say this is “better”

I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

I’d ditch Mull, and go IronFox. It’s a fork of Mull that is actively maintained.

Thank you for the info, I may try that out of curiosity

So, I of course rebooted everything i could, the box hosting my DNS/PiHole, VPN, docker box, etc. However, was remote and couldn’t reboot my modem.

I lowered my MTU on my VPN client config after rebooting my modem, and it’s working.

I don’t fully understand why it worked, but it did.

Maybe something on my ISPs end that wasn’t functioning.

I turned on query logging for my PiHole. I chose a random site I don’t typically browse, and confirmed I saw it logged in my PiHole. Though, I am thinking it’s likely DNS that’s causing issues.

I even tried turning off split tunneling, and it does the same thing.

I checked automatic DNS setting on my phone.

I don’t know if it will make a difference but the DNS records for my local services are CNAME records, so I am going to change it to an A/AAAA record on PiHole.

I have these set in PiHole and not my Unbound.

DNS leak test comes back the same mobile data with VPN as it does WiFi with VPN pointing back to DNS reflecting my upstream DNS, Quad9.

Wish I knew how to test/troubleshoot this.

That’s what I was thinking. Thank you