My WH1080 weather station has a USB-A connector on the device side, I assume for the convenience of the slimmer profile.

That’s the only natural occurrence of that cable I’ve ever seen.

The other one was a custom board printed in 2001 at the electronics class, where I was some kind of precursor by powering it with a USB cable rather than a bulky lab power supply. As I did salvage the connector it was a A-A abomination but they had that cable at the supermarket for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If you already own a domain name, you could use Cloudflare tunnels using cloudflared (it’s free).

Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor

I’d just use tmux. Check NetworkChuck’s recent video on the topic

Un-smarting our home is indeed my current concern if I would pass suddenly. It’s mostly usable manually but most switches would continually try to connect to WiFi and mqtt. I rather hope have my teenager son be able to take over if need be. My passwords could be accessed by my wife anytime but I’m not sure she realises it, it would be to be documented.

I’ve been using SMBSync2 for years now. I’m quite happy with it. Even in holidays it can backup over VPN. AndSMB for a while before that, until it schedule functionalities required a subscription.

Why the hell would they ditch the telephoto lens? It’s not the best of the three on my Xperia 5 II, but WTF are you doing Sony ?