I liked when we had swoop. Vancouver or Abbotsford to London was $69. And once I had a Toronto to Vancouver for $15+50 YYZ airport improvement fee.
We see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same
It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
Wireguard might be what you want. You connect to your remote machine ( assume it is at home). You can setup what traffic goes over wireguard (some or all). On your home machine you can run port forward command and masquerading command once connected on home machine so that you have full lan access too. It is described in the wireguard setup docs.
We are lucky, we get two free. Technically they aren't true static, its tied to MAC of your modem, or your router(s) -- with ISP modem in bridge mode. You can pay for true static, but I have probably had the same IP for 5 years, and same with the modem/routerbeforre this one.
We selfhost a lot for work. Was paid services before but cost kept creeping up. Companies have IT anyway, so it is really not a huge expense to manage your own services.
Which is cheap. You can run a lot on a pi these days. Or setup a higher powered nuc. MS chargers for server and now named user licenses.
Many of the things you listed are available as free software through opensource projects. Microsoft just bundles it all making it easy.
Some places issues buy Canada only, so there may be an uptick for certain Canadian manufacturers
It is a well done series. Can't talk about content because of spoilers. But the single take from start of the episode to end is an amazing accomplishment-with all the camera movements.
Have you seen Point Roberts though. School kids have to take a 40 min bus ride through Canada to get to their school in Washington.
Slow day here, finally had time to clean 30 years of oil and dirt off my sockets
Many thanks to all those that maintain FOSS. i had setup a pi4 running 32 bit Debian Buster years ago (pandemic days) with OpenMediaVault 5. With the OMV docker and portainer plugin I had various dockers running, but found some dockerhub images weren't supporting 32bit. I had thought ubout updating to 64 bit install but thought I might have headaches, so just blocked the pi from accessing the internet and sidelined the update. Since it is the holidays I figured I would tackle an update.
Scope:
Step 1 add "arm_64bit=1" in the config.txt file of /boot and reboot. Took a while to boot with lots of drive activity but 64 kernel worked perfectly.
Step 2: run sudo omv-release-upgrade
That is it. Two commands and everything updated perfectly. Nothing to fix.
To me that is an amazing testament to the work put in by everyone for Linux kernel, the OS, OMV devs, and Applications maintainers. Amazing.
Same, I'm on OpenSUSE, nVidia hosts its own OpenSUSE repo. As far back as 8 years(for me) you add the repo and add the driver. Everything works.