A Synology NAS would be a good shout if you don't mind the self hosting and maintenance route. That said, I also have an Infomaniak kDrive setup for my cloud backup. With that I have my email, calendar, drive space and it even offers an office suite in the cloud.

It may not have all the bells and whistles you get with Microsoft Office but, for me, it certainly does the trick.

The first one is definately the best one in terms of the overall feel of the game and storyline. Both the 2nd and 3rd games are good and have elements of story continuation in them. On the 3rd one though, parts of the story did not keep me hooked and I did not feel invested in the character arch as much as the others. For me, great games, new and old, must have:

• A compelling storyline
• A believable or even relatable character arch
• Consistency throughout so the story flows

Graphics are not the most important thing in any way. I want to feel immersed.

Feel that went on a little tangent them but you get what I mean (hopefully).

Hi, my bad on the 'family' reference. It is the 'teams' package that I use, I just use it for my family. Like I mentioned before though, it is far more cost effective than the kSuite, which is targeted at businesses.

As for the transferring for data, this is possible via a feature in kDrive. It is capable of transferring from a number of cloud storage services, including OneDrive. You can get more info on that here: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2406/import-external-data-to-kdrive

I still have my OneDrive at the moment but aim to close this down. I use my Synology to synchronise the data between kDrive, OneDrive and my Synology for data safety. (Yes, this is overkill) I will eventually remove OneDrive from that as I get a better home cloud setup in place.

Not quite. They are network linked through Tailscale but typically running through a Mullvad VPN exit node. The NextDNS is baked into Tailscale too.

This gives me access to my home devices (including self hosted services, etc.) from out and about on the secure Tailscale network and connect to the Internet through a Mullvad VPN connection but that is further supported by the NextDNS which ensure devices are blocked from ads, trackers, telemetry, etc.

I only chose this route because I want an easy way to manage my whole network of connected devices without having to do a setup on each one individually.

Don't get me wrong, there may be a better way but this has just worked well for me.

I did the classic, jump in at the deep end approach, and ended up with some distro hoping for a while. I then settled on Fedora.

Why? It did everything I wanted to do and did it well. I found some distro so easy to setup but harder to maintain, some really slick but problematic with updates and apps. Fedora, for me, just worked.

All that said, there are various factors to consider, including your hardware configuration. Some distro just happen to work better on some hardware specs, especially when considering your graphics.

I have a similar usage to you, covering a little bit of everything including gaming and dev and, so far, everything continues to work. So much so, I am thinking of switching my gaming rig over to Fedora in the coming weeks.

Wow... so many choices. Skyrim is a great shout.

I remember hearing the Halo soundtrack for the first time was incredible so feel I have to go with that.

Other worthy mentions:

• Street Fighter II
• Civilization (theme tune to be fair)
• Horizon

I certainly take the comedic value from this. My dad is a classic technophobe. He believes the phone is there for emergencies only, and if a call between him and me needs to happen, he will get my mum to phone. With that, the two times in the past 8 years I have got a call, it has been an emergency... I dread the day he might phone and just go, "Just checking in to see how you are."

So yeah, there is a comical side to this, which I certainly see.

Hard to choose but, if there are any that stand out it would be...

• Frank Turner in Leeds (2019). I had seen him for the very first time, supporting Blick-182 a couple of years before. He is an entertainer for sure and paying to see him as the main act just made it way better. Would definately go to see him again!
• While vastly different in genre, one of the best experiences would be when I went to see Andrea Bocelli (Leeds). My mum had always wanted to see him and I like classical music so it was win-win. I was never expecting the spectacular evening I was in for! Yeah, tickets were not cheap but it was worth it, if nothing more than to see my mum clearly experince a once in a lifetime evening.

My tenure in attending gigs is short as was never really in to gigs when growing up. It has only been the past 8 years or so I have attended them. Prior to that it was purely stage shows.

Cheers. I thought I had seen mention of banner sizes somewhere but could not remember where. Hopefully this does come in handy.

Well fingers crossed we get the absolute downpour we keep being promised. So far it has been quite sporadic. Well apart from the 15 minute downpour on Sunday while I was painting a fence (like it waited for me to do that).

Classic! Glad we found the culprit! Always the case though. Plan for a BBQ... Rain. Plan a day at the beach... Rain. Buy a fan... Rain.

I could not agree more. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the sunny climates but sometimes that break is just needed. Plus, sounding really old now, my garden needed the rain!