I think you missed the portion about wire guarding into your home internet. Set up a rule so that whenever off home WiFi activate wireguard and you have your pihole block list wherever you go. Although you may have a decrease in speeds.

Both are correct in this case. As acceptable as smoking. Meaning not acceptable (In a social setting).

Yeah you can make a new group chat that just has the two of you, so it would be separate from your other chat.

I just started using KitchenOwl for this. It can be a little clunky, but it suits my purposes well.
Pros:

• self hostable
• multiple grocery lists
• categories and sorting are customizable (so I can put the categories in the order I shop in)
• sync across devices near instantaneous
• web and desktop interface

Cons:

• can be a little slow to add items. You can’t just add text, you have to wait until the search is complete
• does not automatically combine the same item together
• occasionally when I switch to the app and mark an item complete, it doesn’t take. Only happens on the first item on open and I just click it away again, so not a huge deal.

One would be CG-NAT as you mentioned, and some people want to host for other people too, potentially including too many people/too distant/too tech illiterate to easily set up WG.

Well, I think I know what I will dive into next when my free time opens back up. First things first is rebuilding my homelab after drive failure. Thanks for the tips!

Interesting! I’ll have to check it out. I’m a little wary of immutable distros though. I do a fair amount of tinkering and random package installs. And I dont love flatpak.

The live USB would boot, but the install would fail. It was my only computer at the time, so I needed it up and working and couldn’t really troubleshoot. In fairness, ASUS is not known for it’s Linux support.

I love mint and I’m at least a little technical. Although I’m still mad I couldn’t get fedora working on my laptop.

From what I’ve gathered, needing banking apps to participate in society is growing more common in Europe than the US, but i could be wrong there.