Because that’s physically impossible for tons of people. CGNATs are very common.

Well nothing is impossible, but it does complicate things very much. Certainly outside “just run a container and call it a day” territory.

That’s… a rather huge drawback. Why even pay for a shield at that point?

Doesn’t explain why we don’t use them to sanitize rooms while we’re not in them.

What does explain it is that UV also damages stuff too. You use it to sanitize your living room, and soon the fabric on your couches will start losing their color. The paint on your walls will start flaking off. The plastic frames of the frames on the wall will start crumbling away or turning sticky. Nobody wants that in their house.

Home assistant usually doesn’t work as a backend for smart appliances like that, just as a frontend that connects to the same stuff that your smartphone app connects to. It communicates with the appliance through the original cloud service, so you can’t take it entirely offline.

? How would that even work? Does openwrt have a feature where it can hack into the ISP’s infrastructure and modify their QoS settings?

Lemmy is not special in that its actively contributing members are a small minority. The majority are, always have been, and always will be occasional participants at best. All social platforms are like that. That’s how reddit works, that’s how archlinux forums work, that’s how your local open mic poetry club works. I’m not going to apologize to anyone for not posting. I’m not interested.

Well I kinda care. Right now lemmy is kinda… boring? The content variety is very limited and the alternatives to the niche communities I enjoy(ed) on reddit are mostly just barren deserts. That’s all because of the rather small and relatively homogenous user base. It’s a bit too echo chamber-y too.

How fast is your storage filling up with 10 active users?

What does it realistically take to host that? Would one of them smaller Digitalocean droplets be enough, for example?