I've recently been enjoying https://fnox.jdx.dev/.

The Unifi range is quite definitely optional cloud. Don't turn it on (and don't use a cloud-based controller!), and it won't have any mechanism for control.

You can even use the mobile apps over direct connection, with local auth and no cloudy relay required.

This does depend somewhat on your risk profile. For many folk it's pretty decent: you need to guard against online attacks, so keeping your passwords offline gives them excellent security. If you need to protect yourself against family members, it's not so good — and it also doesn't provide the level of phishing protection that an online password manager offers.

One of types of services Cloudflare provides goes by the name "Warp". Calling it a VPN is only wrong in ways that don't really matter — it has the effect of causing client traffic to appear to originate from a different IP address to the one they're notionally connected to the Internet via.

The problem with asking an LLM for "its reasoning" after the fact, is that any justification it might give is a post-hoc rationalisation rather than a pre-meditated reason.

Agreed, and you could get a completely unrelated LLM to generate a similar apology without any of the real context, it would make up reasoning just as effectively.

You probably don't want to be setting up Maps on either a touch screen or a with keys while driving. But navigation and media selection are the two functions I'm generally happy to interact with via voice.

I have a pre-facelift MB A-class, and I think it's the best car I've driven for controls. You don't have to touch the screen ever if you don't want to: there's a trackpad on the centre console that just works even (most of the time) with Android Auto (and the back/home/map/media/phone buttons will still save you even if Android Auto won't always let you move the cursor to the back arrow in YouTube Music). The steering wheel has two touch-sensitive buttons, one for each screen (duplicating the trackpad, which itself duplicates the media touchscreen). I can't even easily reach either screen when driving, so I don't.

Driving controls are all available on the stalks and wheel, volume is adjustable from the wheel or the centre console, all physical buttons, levers, or scroll inputs, unless you need to change a setting using the trackpad. The only thing that's missing is wheel control for skipping tracks :P.

And then in the facelift they replaced the buttons on the steering wheel with touch sensitive ones and just removed the touch pad and replaced it with nothing. It's still useable and nice, but worse than the older model and there was no need to change anything.

I've used[0] `.local` to achieve something like this, by advertising service endpoints over mDNS.

Exposing random services to your local network is exactly what mDNS is for, I always thought it was a shame more dev tooling didn't do that.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewaylett/mod_bonjour is a fork of Apple's mod_bonjour, very much unloved of late I'm afraid.

That list contains issues with the APIs that Chrome exposes via MV3. Firefox still supports APIs that Chrome removed.

Note that this isn't six weeks of reserve, it's an estimated six weeks of draw-down given what they're still receiving from other sources combined with (I suspect) both known fuel in transit and a reserve that wouldn't last nearly as long as six weeks if it were all they had.

If they can increase supply or reduce demand, the reserve will take longer to draw down.