Yes, exactly what I do except for email, since email from dynamic DNS is killed dead on sight. (Pfsense and I presume opnsense have really good dyndns clients). For email, I ended up proxying it with haproxy through a $5 VPS instance with a static IP to my local email server. It's been very reliable, and far cheaper than a business grade Internet connection with a static IPv4 address (which used to just be handed out for free back in the day).
The static IP is getting really, really hard. I finally canceled the business plan I had which was the lowest cost static IP at home, and got a VPS proxy with one for 1/20th the price.
Yeah I have the same setup, just with pflblocker on pfsense. The Roku (a Roku 3 actually, the old old one) goes BONKERS trying to send data back. Connection attempts every few seconds.
I got a Shield, which isn't any better, and more annoyingly has baked-in default ads if the ad servers are blocked
I've taken them a few times. They've been great. No one in the car, no driver to have to tip, drives perfectly normally if sort of circuitously. The only issue I had was when it didn't want to pass a little girl on a bike in a line-separated bike line, who was wobbling along - it kept pace behind her until I guess the space available widened enough that it felt ok about passing - much wider than I would have done.
I dislike Google's actions and influence extremely so I'm not sure how to feel about this in general, but the tech is really nice.
They give away Prime for a month sometimes, or have it for $2 for a month when you order something and you get free shipping.But you aren't getting much - the 2-day shipping is chancy, prices are almost never better, and not having Prime does curb impulse buying.
You say that but renewables are a big, big share of generation on the ERCOT grid.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmkti...
You see the fossil plants take over at night, but during the days solar and wind shoot wayyyy up - I think I remember 60 or 70%. Wind is big business here.