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Probably an instant hire from me if it's pulled off in any significant way...

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This sounds like thinking I had as carer for my mother with dementia/Alzheimer's. If so, I found introducing new things to be not useful, it will be soon forgotten, (If not, good, and ignore this, but XY-Problem indeed). What I found actually useful was remote video monitoring on my phone (using a few RasPi's, I'm sure there are better solutions, but I was poor, and it worked) allowing me to go out in necessity. The other thing I wish I'd done earlier is reach out to any and all available support earlier rather than later, it's a marathon and every edge you can get will allow you to do better for all concerned, not least yourself.

That said, watches with automatic fall monitoring, with SMS alert to you would be useful. Ideally, something like Alexa (but preferably not as privacy invading, still, needs must as the devil drives) or whatever allowing her to just call out "help" and get a call to you on a speaker / microphone is probably achievable now, perhaps someone can chime in, or you can go searching. Best of luck!

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In what way are you not re-inventing the gluetun wheel ? Not trying to put you down, just that I'd need a good reason to consider anything less battle hardened.

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Just use its proxy for the host system's needs...

MalReynolds ,
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I don't route all my system's traffic through Gluetun, my threat model doesn't need it, I just route relevant apps, e.g. package management is in the clear but firefox, SearXNG, and nicotine go via gluetun. SSH can look after itself, or I'm in dire trouble. If my threat model did need it, I'd be considering a similar solution to yours, but it'd be heavily cribbed from the known good of gluetun, basically the docker (podman) put to bare metal.

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Radicale has been so good I'd forgotton it existed, carddav and caldav sorted. Unix principle at its best, do one thing well (or microservices for the newbies). Why are you dogwhistling for a closed source marginal replacement for syncthing ?

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I heartily approve, without much help to offer. Points of thought...

-Calibre web server good, mirror Annas Archive best, practically somehow getting everyone's downloaded books into a community Calibre would rock.

  • You're going to need a bigger NAS (Jaws pun, but seriously, this will be at least / more important than your server, redundancy is king)
  • Probably something lighter / easier too maintain than Nextcloud for simple filesharing, Seafile perhaps?
  • Honestly, this is the sort of initiative that could drive local Mesh adoption.
  • What security are you using, most govs/corps don't like private internets, how vulnerable are you to CSAM etc.

I'm aware of a fair amount of local sneaker net approaches (HDD swapping etc), which mostly avoids the security issues. I too would love to hear about successful use cases.

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If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

That's what RAID(5) is for, if a drive craps out you just shrug and get a new one (or warranty), no data loss. Easy enough to cobble together with a PCIe card and 4ish smaller drives, faster too...

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Yep, as can happen easily if you buy in a batch. Just like ransom (related, no?), non-sequential serial numbers please.

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God tier VPN solution (if your provider is covered), have two running, one outs in Singapore for *arrs and a localish one for my SearxNG. So much versatility for something so solid...

MalReynolds ,
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You're right, and it's Stockholm Syndrome from a century of ad psychology refinement.

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If manipulating reddit isn't already a betting sport, it's not far away. Guessing it is in Russia (or at least a drinking game), just like the rest of the big 'social' netwerks. Enjoy your next election. Wherever you are :)

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Look at syncthing, set a directory with your music on your desktop/laptop , sync to phone, profit....

MalReynolds ,
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Laughs in atomic.

But also yes...

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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If you don't care about privacy, you're probably blasé about backup, but if you have backups it's as simple as 3-2-1...

MalReynolds ,
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Route it through a vpn with gluetun and it does...

MalReynolds ,
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I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgements and intentions are. 

Gold!

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Verifiably no logs without court order (I'm guessing canary pages have gone the way of the dodo now, probably boilerplate in the orders, maybe wrong according to the article, perhaps in some jurisdictions) would be awesome. Verified by external audit is about as good as we can get, so proton, tutanota, I think, others muchly appreciated. I think one of them setup their OS in volatile RAM, which is cool, but probably not legally protective.

No, I don't expect you to go to jail for me, but due diligence minimising knowledge will bump you up my list of providers to choose.

One problem here is those that do verify, usually don't allow torrenting ports, so, no ratios for you. Anyone know what the over/under is on lesser tier VPNs that port share vs a VPS (with all its potential, but which country?) vs Usenet? Looking to have a clue when the time comes, knowledge gratefully accepted :)

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Good person. Much like I would like to do. I'd be happy with a VPN for personal use and another one for torrenting (gluetun compatible preferably) Shall look at AirVPN, thanks.

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In this case, you can have a primary user with no google services and a secondary with google services (Play store etc) that you can't live without, until you find FOSS alternatives for your main. You can also revoke network permission on any app, including google's. Rocks.

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So, I'm on a P7 with GOS, and truly it is a brilliant way to divest oneself from google services, alongside being probably the most secure third party ROM. I think, they're certainly very keen on it, and laudably competent, updates are around weekly, sometimes every couple of days, because there are some vulnerable (to state level actors etc.) users. It's been great, I have a primary profile that is google free and a secondary for google stuff that I want, and over time I find, at my own pace, FOSS things to move into my primary, so I don't need my secondary as much, until I didn't need it at all. It's great, and now I can move to any other ROM without google services and be (mostly, except for some bastard in real life requiring an app that I can't install in secondary on Lineage etc, at least last time I used it, which will come up) happy. Thankyou GOS. Also, being able to revoke network permissions on any random app (including google services) via OS is Gold.

That said, P7 has some issues, it runs hot (I recorded via termux), and if you live in a hot humid environ, don't expect longevity near the 5Yr security updates promised. Mine's spicy pillow at 16 months, enough to break the seal and accelerate degeneration. I live in a country with consumer protection for 24 months, so it's not so bad (I hope, batteries are special), but in the rest of the world it would suck. I do not want to replace my phone every year, assholes.

TLDR: Get a second hand Pixel (4-7), hence not giving money to google, replace the battery, install GOS. Learn, live, enjoy, at the end you will have learned to live free (if that's what you want).

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My understanding is that GOS relies on google for security updates (and sometimes the other way around, they've made some flaws known to google). I would trust them to be solid, at least until google drops the P6 security updates, go look up how many years that is. At worst, you can then use LineageOS or something if you need security, hopefully by then you're degoogled. GOS will still work, but to my knowledge, doesn't guarantee updates after google stops updating. It's about as good as you can expect from a ROM, I'm quite happy, personally.

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Fair enough, but P7 has 5 years of security updates, I think P8 gets 7 yrs, FWIW.

MalReynolds ,
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All storage is secure if you encrypt locally first (metadata notwithstanding). Of questionable utility for phone apps (happy to be corrected, some sort of FUSE type filesystem with cached filenames etc. could probably work), but great for offsite backups (preferably using multiple services) of critical data.

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Hence multiple services...

MalReynolds ,
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You, and we, are better off for it.

The issue is that it's been forgot (Remember the 5th of November)

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I have read some headline

Really.

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Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

@privacy

MalReynolds ,
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Shout less, please.

Also, no I won't develop your app. Could (maybe), won't.

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I‘m not shouting. I‘m using proper headlines.

Seen anyone else using them ?

I could also not care less what you would or could do.

But you use social media...

MalReynolds , (edited )
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I have an old, spinning rust WinBlows, easily inserted in the ex-cdrom slot of my bathtub movie lenovo t440p, because once a year or so I need to upgrade the firmware of some crap that has no other option. Wastes about 24 hrs of (annoying but small) power updating each time. May this pass, in time. (like tears in rain :)

I should get around to imaging it onto a SSD, but I don't, due to distaste, and then I need it again. :(.

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F

MalReynolds ,
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Sounds appropriate...

MalReynolds ,
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seems your link has been Lemmy'd (is that a thing now?)

MalReynolds ,
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It's a Heinlein quote.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

I'm on the fence, personally, some to like, some not.

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Good saying...

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

MalReynolds , (edited )
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Seems unlikely if you outright own it, this is for bought on a plan type stuff, no ?

Edit: On further reading, apparently not. WTAF?

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That's deeply disturbing, what else could be hiding next to it? I sort of hope it's somehow being installed by your phone company, as bad as that is, the alternative is worse!

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It's 5 minutes out of your life to try, as an aussie, please do, for charity if nothing else, who knows, you might benefit...

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Got a non-capitalist phone for me?

Sincerely as a hater...

MalReynolds ,
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Fair cop.

MalReynolds ,
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Righteous assumption. That it is not, requires investigation. That's some serious BS.

MalReynolds ,
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Solid.

MalReynolds ,
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Sigh. Way too much freeze in fight, flight or freeze...

MalReynolds ,
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With GrapheneOS, there's dual profile, a main without google, and a secondary profile with all the garbage you don't really need...

MalReynolds ,
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Well, that was depressing (irony intended). Thanks for the thinking...

MalReynolds ,
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Coz we all trust in that...

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Debian in the nineties :) Watched the towers fall on slashdot...

Now on bazzite, it's also glorious.

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Yeah, main is for google-less.

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