Google's Pixel phones received a new feature that allows you to [limit the battery charge to 80%](https://9to5google.com/2024/09/13/android-15-qpr1-limit-battery-charging/). Currently on Reddit, some are wondering why anyone would purposely handicap their battery capacity. Others say it's useful for daily usage when their phone is always on the charger. For me, the best use case is when driving. My car recently got an update which enables wireless Android Auto. Paired with wireless charging, the phone gets hot during a typical drive. If the phone could maintain an 80% charge for the duration of the drive, I believe it would help the phone keep a cooler temperature and be better overall for the phone's health. However, there's no quick toggle for the 80% charge, and going into the battery settings before each drive is pretty inconvenient.

I started hosting photos on my home server to de-Google. It was an interesting experience overall, which included setting up a DNS server and fiddling with Wake on Wireless LAN. I'll explain the process below, and finally touch upon the fix for an annoying problem I encountered where the server would go to sleep for seemingly no reason. I already had [PIVPN](https://www.pivpn.io/) installed on my Raspberry Pi. From there, I set up a DNS server so I could point photos.local to an IP address within the network. I had a choice between `dnsmasq` and `Bind9` for the server, and I chose `Bind9` because it seemed like the more "correct" choice. Digital Ocean [explains](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-bind-as-a-private-network-dns-server-on-ubuntu-18-04) the setup well.