Syncthing also even has basic version control, just no “web file browsing” interface.

Obviously backed up to the chatGPT overlord!

What if the phone dies?

The answer is always the same.

I have a phone with 128GB of space and an SD card with 256GB. To update to 256GB internal would have cost 250€ because price reductions often only happen on base models.

I have used 86GB of internal with the rest on the SD. That is near-zero photos, a few streaming playlists, 2 game apps, and almost no documents. Apps take up ridiculous amounts of space now because devs don’t give a fuck about space.

On my SD card I have used up 154GB of 256GB.

My music library, all of my photos and videos are stored directly on the SD card, backups from apps, etc…

See how 154 + 86 is way more than 128 and a 256GB SD card cost 30€ while to upgrade to 256GB internal would be more than 800% the cost? And the sum above would be at the limit of 256GB anyway? They didn’t offer a 512GB model.

The added benefit of if my phone dies or gets destroyed, the chance that I can just pull my SD card out and have all of my needed info including backups of my TOTP codes and everything without having to go to a multi-hundred euro recovery service.

This is absolutely so true. All of the “hunting” survivalists don’t realize that you would essentially have 1000 people hunting every 1 deer if you live in the suburbs and not that much better rurally. This isn’t 1800 anymore.

The best thing you can do is have enough land to farm, learn how to farm, and stock the hell up on base ingredients (wheat, rice, dry beans, lentils) and stock up on as many seeds as you know how to grow. Even then; one bad harvest and you starve.

But seriously, I can’t stress dry beans and lentils enough. They last forever, they can be sprouted and replanted, and they have many many times more protein than corn or rice which is very important when you go vegan.

Also getting ducks will give eggs for additional protein and B12 vitamins that you would miss out on otherwise.

Dropping instead of blocking might technically be better because it wastes a bit more bot time and they see it as “it doesn’t exist” rather than an obsticle to try exploits on. Not sure if that is true though.

For me:

• ssh server only with keys

• absolutely no ssh forwarding, only available to local network via firewall rules

• docker socket proxy for everything that needs socket access

• drop non-used ports, limit IPs for local-only services (e.g. paperless)

• crowdsec on traefik for the rest (sadly it blocks my VPN IPs also)

• Authelia over everything that doesn’t break the native apps (jellyfin and home assistant are the two that it breaks so far, and HA was very intermittent so I made a separate authelia rule and mobile DNS entry for slightly reduced rules)

• proper umask rules on all docker directories (or as much as possible)

• main drive FDE with a separate boot drive with FDE keyfile on a dongle that is removed except for updates and booting to make snatch-and-grabs useless and compromising bootloader impractical

• full disk encryption with passworded data drives, so even if a smash and grab happens when I leave the dongle in, the sensitive data is still encrypted and the keys aren’t in memory (makes a startup script with a password needed, so no automated startups for me)

For more info, I followed a lot of stuff on: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

HealthyPi will be a too option too. Much more fitness focused than pinetime or banglejs

I have been happy with PrivateVPN, but I can’t get a read on them.

They say no-log, but many VPNs probably lie about that. Small, based in Sweden.

I just saw on the kumo app literally just now that they got bought out by Miss Group and are no longer independent like when I started with them in 2019.

They have no strikes against them besides the not-disclosed buyout. No idea if I should switch, but they have good prices and port forwarding.

Then the question is: what is being smart or dumb? If acting dumb in 90% of life while having the capability of being smart isn’t “being dumb” then what is?

If someone who has the capability of being 50/100 intelligent and is always acting 50/100, I would argue they are smarter than someone capable of 80/100 intelligence but acts 20/100 intelligence for 90% of their life.

I also use ubiquiti. It is the apple of WiFi systems, for better or worse.

I have yet to be able to find if they are privacy respecting or not. I am leaning more towards no since everything is by default through their cloud (my brand new UCG-ultra wouldn’t even let me set it up locally, it would break when trying to set it up locally via the app and DNS & IPs would be messed up so I couldn’t even contact it to fix it, I had to hard reset it and do it via their cloud)

Multiple, though yt-dlg hasn’t been updated for years.

And then I get down voted for laughing when people say that they use AI for “general research” 🙄🙄🙄

I only partake in the finest carapils

Yeah, they have a spotify connect plugin that works, but chromecast probably will not be supporter because google holds all of the cast keys and esphome/music assistant/ home assistant would have to register with them (and probably play the fees) i think

It’s done for smaller parts with peltiers nowadays. Not that efficient, but there are few options. If you sink it to a large enough surface, it will radiate away.

To be fair though. The experience of google and Microsoft online word/spreadsheets/etc… also sucks ass on a smartphone. Much better, sure, but doing spreadsheets or writing a paper on a phone is a bad experience in general.

But how does this change using VPNs with torrenting? Especially because it seems like the vast majority don’t support ipv6 as well as openvpn often leaking ipv6 IPs.

This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don’t load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.

That is a fantastic idea. Wtf how is this not commonplace? Or am I just way behind 😅

Don’t worry. Companies like Bambu and others are trying to lock down shift their printer business in the style of 2d printer companies. I hope it at least happens very slowly, but the enshittification is happening…