Something like this happened to me. Change the static IP (configure your NAS to get its IP from DHCP) and fix the IP on the UniFi UI.

As an immigrant that came to the West Coast I appreciate what you say here as it helps me (us) understand better the reasoning behind the banning of religious symbols in Quebec.

Without a doubt, for me it’s Re-animator. This movie also introduced me to HP Lovecraft.

MadAI’s disease.

I guess we didn’t learn when we did it with cows.

Iain Banks. All of his sci-fi books.

I recently saw an article about him on The Guardian that will be more eloquent than I can be.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/29/where-to-start-with-iain-banks

Just be aware that he wrote both fiction and sci-fi. Iain M Banks is how he signed his sci-if ones.

Have you considered installing Proxmox? That way you can then test as many distros as possible and even play a bit with containers. I configured it recently and I’m having a lot of fun being able to take snapshots and then doing crazy things with an easy way to recover from my failed experiments.