+1. Buy an ice cream maker and use these to make sorbet; you’ll never have too many strawberries and raspberries again.

Your approach won’t work if you’re behind carrier grade NAT or you can’t open ports. My landlord provides my internet so I use tailscale (with headscale on my long distance vps) to connect everything and it works great. It uses LAN when I’m home, and NAT punches when I’m elsewhere.

You will be if you call customer support and get an AI that can’t help.

Entirely depends on who’s publishing the image. Many projects publish their own images, in which case you’re running their code regardless.

It’s not even necessarily the ISPs that are doing it. In many cases they don’t like this because their users start getting blocked on websites; it’s bad actors piggy-packing on legitimate users connections without those users’ knowledge.

There are residential IP providers that provide services to scrapers, etc. that involves them having thousands of IPs available from the same IP ranges as real users. They route traffic through these IPs via malware, hacked routers, “free” VPN clients, etc. If you block the IP range for one of these addresses you’ll also block real users.

Yes but there are ways to protect against that. For instance you can configure Tailscale clients to only trust nodes that have been signed by trusted nodes, or something like that.

It’s not soaring demand but cratering supply that’s spiking prices. Millions of chickens were culled due to bird flu and so there’s an egg shortage.

Worth noting the US seems to be harder hit than other countries because of how densely they pack hens together.

I think as a young child I had a banana flavoured oral antibiotic drink drug for an ear infection.

Just going to mention that if you’re okay with non-FOSS office software, I really like Softmaker’s suite (their buy-once non-subscription version).

Only works if your adversaries also cut military spending. Unfortunately countries like Russia have shown that they’ll happily attack those unable to defend themselves. This also means that increased military spending can cause less war if it deters those who would otherwise attack.