It depends on what it is. I generally don’t expect an artist/creator to be what I’d consider a good role model.

Some examples:

Dave Grohl (lead singer/guitarist of Foo Fighters) announced he fathered a child outside of his marriage. I consider this morally wrong, but it has no impact on my enjoyment of the music.

J.K. Rowling being an outspoken transphobe has had an impact on my ability to enjoy Harry Potter. Not that I was ever a super fan, but I enjoyed the movies well enough. But discrimination against an entire group of people is too significant to me to keep the art separate from the artist.

I share your sentiment about MAGA people in general. But in this situation you’re also saying it to a 15 year old kid about their Grandpa. I think it’s a situation that calls for more tact.

Reasonably well traveled American here. 10 countries over 5 continents as of this comment.

You should go and see the world. It’s an amazing experience! I think wanting to learn more languages is commendable and I hope you do. But even if you don’t, don’t let that stop you from traveling. English is widely spoken, especially in the service industry. And translation apps, while clunky, work well enough.

Your Grandpa doesn’t sound like he wants his mind changed. I say that partly from what you said, and partly because I know the type. And it’s hard to convince anyone who isn’t interested in changing their preconceived notions. Which is sad, being stuck in a box of his own making. I can understand you wanting him to see it the way you do. But if you can’t, that’s not your fault. And he can’t hold you back unless you let him.

Lemmy.ml has some pretty active communities on it. Might be worth it for OP to look over their most active communities and see if any interest them. If so, you have the option of blocking communities instead of the whole instance.

Lemmygrad and hexbear pretty much stick to their sociopolitical beliefs. If that’s not your bag, then no real loss in blocking those instances.

As you may have been able to glean from context from the title, this is a thin client used to remote to a cloud hosted Windows (Win$lop, to appease the presumably likeminded audience) desktop.

I imagine a good number of people will fall for this. Tech illiteracy is the norm.

I futzed around with home assistant + meshtastic. It’s dependant on your use case, I suppose, but I found it unreliable.

I have a 5.8DBI Rokland antenna elevated above my home. I live in a suburban area with no significant geographical obstacles for several miles and a fair number of online nodes in my area (low teens). My receiving device… I don’t recall exactly. I want to say it’s a roughly 2 DBI antenna that I found recommended on the meshtastic wiki. I find it to be pretty spotty any more than about 1.5mi (2.5km) away. Though admittedly it sometimes works from much further away.

Point is, meshtastic may not be viable for remote HA administration due to it being a somewhat unreliable at range.

Edit: it occurred to me after commenting that this is a suburban sprawl problem. If you live and work in a small radius such as a walkable city, this is probably perfectly viable.