Dave

I was surprised to see that I could see other users’ documents.

TBH this is how I expected it to work. A shared family document repository. I'm not against having more granular permissions, though!

I use Kavita. I have some minor complaints but in general it works.

I haven't tried others though, so can't say if it's the best or not.

Does your ISP sell static IPs? Maybe they are all static?

For an ISP using all public IPs, in the days of dial up they could rent less IPs than customers because people were online at different times. These days the routers are all online 24/7, so it seems odd to me that some ISPs have everyone on public IPs but they aren't static. Probably some technical reason why things don't work how I think they do, but it just feels like a way to sell static IPs as an add-on when it wouldn't cost them anymore to allocate an IP to a customer for the life of the connection.

Dynamic IPs don't change very often. Sometimes you can get a new one by restarting your router, which most people don't do very often. But in my experience they stay the same if you don't restart it.

If you do end up with a new IP occasionally, it's typically not too hard to change things to the new one.

Tailscale requires each person be granted access, I.e. it's private. (Edit:I didn't know about Tailscale Funnel, which is more like Cloudflare tunnel)

Cloudflare Tunnel gives anyone on the internet access, but to my knowledge only covers HTTP traffic. If what you're trying to do requires port numbers then I don't think that will work.

In regards to media traffic, Cloudflare silently removed that section of their Ts & Cs, so hosting Jellyfin, etc should now be OK.

You might be able to use Tailscale on a cheap VPN to forward traffic to your setup, but it might be cheaper and easier to pay your ISP.

It's worth pointing out that port forwarding happens on your router, but if you don't have a public IP then it won't work. Sometimes ISPs will give you a public IP if you just ask, sometimes they tie it to a static IP add-on and charge for it. It sounds like you might be in the latter case. It can vary by ISP, so if you live somewhere where you get a choice, you may find another ISP is a better deal (e.g. where I live some charge $15 a month for a static IP, some charge a one off $40 fee, and some you can just ask and they will give you a public dynamic IP for free. Others will give everyone public dynamic IPs).

I love how Outlook opens your links in Edge and gives you a little message about how it knows it's not your default browser but it thought you'd like to open in Edge anyway.

For the record, you can use justwatch.com and it will tell you exactly where you can watch it, and which seasons. But I'm still not paying for multiple subscriptions.

Email have very much not been replaced. Messengers fit a specific niche. I personally send dozens of emails a day, and receive even more. These aren't chat messages, but more elaborate emails that chat messages just don't suit.

I was joking, but I'm curious what product you think could replace email? It's popular because it's instant (as opposed to phone, fax, email), and most importantly because it's decentralised. There is no one company in control, anyone can run a server on any software so long as it speaks the open standards.

I'm sure there is something that could replace it, but what's your suggestion?

Damn right, long live Google Wave!

This summary article says the board stated:

"Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities," OpenAI's post said. "The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI."

The article also says:

Rumors and speculation swirled on social media, with tech industry heads, reporters, and onlookers trying to make sense of the situation based on what little information was provided in the board's announcement. Tech journalist Kara Swisher quickly reported that based on what information she had from sources, there was a "misalignment" between OpenAI's for-profit side, represented by Altman, and the nonprofit side, which is controlled by the board.

As far as I know the exact issue was not made public, but basically the board is there to make sure the company puts ethics over profits. Altman was hiding stuff from the board (presumably because they would consider it in conflict with their goal), and so the board fired him. But then there was an uproar from the investors, Microsoft almost ended up hiring half the company as they threatened to resign in droves, and in the end the board resigned and was replaced.

Does that answer the question?

I mean, the humans think it's cool to take perfectly good pants, tear holes in them until there are hardly any pants, and wear them like that. Maybe pants are even cooler?