Heck Microsoft doesn't even allow me to use IMAP, and if I want to use a different client (and not the shitty web one), I have to get permission from my IT administrator.
Funnily enough, the same client (Thubderbid) doesn't need any confirmation on Mac or Windows, only Linux.
I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn't even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.
Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.
Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn't need safety features because a sane person doesn't expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.
Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.
With 4, you are correct, I went from top of my head back what we learned in high school 15 or so years ago. 5 is still better than nothing if you don't have the resources to get one more drive for 6. Of course, the best is completely mirroring all stuff to a separate geo location.
It all boils down to willingness of spending money for more durability.
I've edited my comment to scratch R4. But R5 is still great for smaller arrays, and it is possible to, for example, have RAID 5 for movies, and RAID 6 for photos.
There are also combinations of RAID levels, like aforementioned 10. There is a nice comparison table with apparent drive requirements and fault tolerance on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
You'll have to find some kind of balance, ad it js a game of chance. You are always limited by number of slots in your server and current largest drive size. Then you are trying to balance price, speed, and durability.
For exampl, let's say maximum amount of drives is 10, and maximum manufactured size is 50 TB. You probably don't need 500 TB of storage that is in no way durable (if a drive dies, all the data on it is lost) and on a single server.
Death of drives is almost certain, two drives dying at the same time is quite low, so something like RAID 4, 5, 6, or 10 is a great start. Depends on how much storage you want, and then partition it accordingly. If you want 20 TB, you can do 4x 8TB in RAID 5, which yields 3x 8TB (=24) of effective storage.
Adding new drives is easy, and you are are always wasting just one drive. Then it depends if you want to sacrifice more space for more durability and switch to RAID 6 later on.
If you want even more storage, you can buy a micro server like ODROID H4+ and use it as network connected storage.
I've setup Hauk for my dad to broadcast his location while delivering. It is only activated when he activates it, but it also works if you want to share location with a specific group of people. It has an app and a website, and can be password protected. It also records history and speed, but history can be turned off.
It is not very robust or particularly well coded, but it is a nice little FOSS app that works, but has to be self hosted.
First I would try hypnosis, then putting a malware on their computer while muttering "I told you so" while fixing it, and then banning their MAC address if everything else fails.
My whole home automation is using Zigbee devices, they don't even know what internet is, and it doesnt matter which brand it is as longs it is supported by Zigbee2MQTT. Matter is great, so is Thread.
It is always "Look, we are actually trying to help the climate" types of government. Helping to build sustainable shit? Put money towards developing open, essy to implement, and easy to service standards? Nah, we will pay a billion dollars towards some bullshit that will be forgotten in a year and 80% (if not more) of the cash will be pocketed by billionaires (to use towards lobbying either against shit that will lose em money or shit that will make em money) because the contract was overpriced.
Fuck humanity, seriously. I just wish we will get a revolution before we burn to a crisp.
I am not sure how, but my friend who created the family is using a country with better price (I think 10%) because of the currency conversion. Can't remember which, but it is not much anyway.
Kagi also has bangs, I used DDG for a year until I switched to Kagi because it just gives better result. The only issue is searching in my native language and finding Vzech websites, but I can just quickly hop to DDG or Ecosia and try there.
I wouldn't say it is particularly easy to setup, not easier than using a Docker image at least.