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My Canadian stepfather died. Family is not close and I’m in the US. The Canadian newspaper where his obit would be doesn’t allow connections from the US.

More than a “small amount of legit pain” was the result.

I use Mycroft with the home assistant vm running on Proxmox. I’m surprised how easily they integrate. And when the internet goes out I can locally control things from a laptop.

Adversarial Wordle 5 years ago

I tried zero guesses but entered “EEEEE”, hit “Give up” and it told me I got it right in one try and the word was “DECAL”!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

I have and sometimes use a 1935 Western Electric phone and it's associated "subscriber set" with my Google Voice account. The phone itself is completely unaltered, as is the subscriber set. Just a plug for a typical phone jack.

I once had a teenager say it was "complicated" to use; dial 9 for and outside line and the number.

I run it at home and have use the dhcp server, too. All the numerous family PCs, Kindles, phone, etc, use it and it works great. For a family of four with two teen-age kids, it blocks about 20% of the DNS traffic we create.

Love it.