starkzarn

I'm not sure you understand what "objectively" actually means... Care to provide your data in support of your objective conclusion?

It's just an NTP pool. The device is trying to update it's time. Likely it made many other requests to other servers when this one didn't work.

Maintaining up to date lists of anything is a game of whack a mole, so you're always going to get weird results.

If you're actually unsure, pcap the traffic on your pfsense box and see for yourself. NTP is an unencrypted protocol, so tshark or Wireshark will have no problem telling you all about it.

That said, I'd still agree with the other poster about local integration with home assistant and just block that sucker from the Internet.

Ran into a similar conundrum. We use mealie for recipe management and occasionally meal planning, but the shopping list is clunky. We resorted to just making a list on a card in Planks. Not purpose-built, but it has worked rather well for us.

I don't know how you got a picture of me, but I demand it is removed!

Agreed. SMD components fail silently.

This is pedantic, but there are indeed capacitors there. They're all surface mount components, so they don't look like the caps that people typically talk about replacing, and they likely aren't what caused it to fail. Anything labeled on the board with a C## is likely a SMD capacitor.

Sure, but no one asked about studies from a specific country, we just got an unsolicited "tut tut" for no reason. I can live in Germany and read Canadian articles all I want. This particular poster just doesn't have an open mind about the world.

Lolwut.

Does your holier-than-thou country not believe in peer reviewed science?

You don't need haproxy on the vps at all, unless I'm misunderstanding you. Just route the traffic using iptables hooks in your wireguard config. This is exactly how I manage my email server and it's entirely transparent.