Norway regularly has very high energy prices… in fact, they’re so high they want to cut exports.

The reason they’re high is because of the grid in other countries being hit by low wind or grey sky days, pushing up the minimum pricing that they’re also subjected to by being part of the same grid.

There are other cables as well. One of them runs through the chunnel. The UK regularly gets upto 10% of its supply from France (seasonal, time, cost dependant)

The sun doesn’t shine at night. Have a look when it is daytime there and you’ll see upwards of 60% of their electricity is solar.

Or use the EM site and check for past statistics.

Reverse proxy + LetsEncrypt + DuckDNS + DNS rewrite to point it at local IP is all you need. Works quite well for all my services.

I prefer Keepass as it is less faff as a password manager is too critical to host like this imo.

If you subscribe to their repo in FDroid updates you’ll get automatic updates.

On September 13, 2021, it was reported that ExpressVPN had been acquired by Kape Technologies, an LSE-listed digital privacy and security company

F-Droid can do unattended installs, you just need A13+ and the basic client.

NOTE: The Basic version of F-Droid Client has a reduced feature set (e.g. no nearby share and no panic feature). It targets Android 13 and can do unattended updates without privileged extension or root.

Uptime Kuma and ntfy.

China has surging electric car sales. Almost every city will have wide 4 lane thoroughfares. At least they do have separate bike lanes, but then have pedal and ebikes mixed, with pedestrians for fun!

Even easier: https://web.whatsapp.com/

There’s Finamp. It is quite basic, but does the job.