OpenSUSE is hardly what I would consider noob friendly, but it certainly beats remaining under Microsoft’s oppressing thumb.

Correct.

The op in that post is 14 years old at most. Just look at how that shot is tailored.

Yeah. The solution to that is using WiFi all over, but that’s not feasible for most people. That’s the 1 thing I’m still stuck with. There’s no 2 ways about it. Either you keep feeding your location to your mobile service provider to have internet everywhere, or you sacrifice that convenience and go completely dark. Fortunately the option of VOIP for voice calls instead of a voice Sim is available, which lessens the issue a bit. I use JMP.chat for that. Seriously thinking about getting their data Sim as well.

All too aware of that. Fortunately I use nothing mainstream at all. For example:

Pretty much all of them. If I recall correctly, after the 3rd question everything was AI.

I kind of added that to the free text part.

I believe my company doesn’t, but maybe it’s just that I don’t have Amy which allowed me to live blissfully unaware that they do 😁

I guess that’s the price we pay for living in a mostly capitalist world. It sucks though. At least I’ve been able to keep my kids out of those things for 11 and 9 years. That alone I consider a win.

I know it’s a mess 😅 That NUC holds my Proxmox server.

That box is my 20TB Unraid server exclusively for storage.

I keep pushing as many people as possible in my life away from all these dangers (I genuinely consider them actual dangers) precisely because of that. It’s mind blowing how most people just don’t care, until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

+1 on Grayjay. Also Tubular. FreeTube on PC and SmartTube on TV.

I don’t need any of the games mentioned, but wanted to mention that you are the material heroes are made of. God bless you. This world needs more people like you.

On what exactly?

Precisely my point. That’s the smart stand in my opinion.

Worse was the fact that the entire video felt like they were shilling for Graphene OS; which is known to have a slightly unfriendly maintainer and community surrounding him to say the least.

Correction, the developers, not the community, are flat out pricks (not “slightly unfriendly”), but this does nothing to remove how amazing the OS is for anyone wanting to remove themselves from all the mainstream garbage in the mobile devices scenario while being able to keep productivity with a few workarounds.

Out of personal experience; I’d actually rate a proper Lineage OS install of 4 whole Android versions ago to be more private than stock. Not quite as private as Graphene; but not quite as invasive and much more enforcing of privacy. The debloating provided by a clean AOSP-like ROM, such as Lineage, as opposed to a “Stock Android” configuration from a major OEM is stark.

You will see me speak about Grapheme as if it was the Holly grail of mobile OSs, and that is because I actually move between CalyxOS, stock android, grapheme and Lineage every few months, and the fact remains that you have less than half of the control on your privacy you can get on anything other than Graphene. Additionally, show me one mobile OS that has less bloat then Graphene.

Every time I see posts slamming GrapheneOS over the toxic community (which it is not) or the devs (who are extremely toxic in my opinion), all I see is butthurt overly a sensitive individuals that are looking at the wrong thing. GrapheneOS is what Android should be, it’s that simple. All these rants about how toxic x or y is only serves to keep people starting in the privacy or security (or both) path away from what is effectively a huge leap from being invaded and helpless in the current tech and surveillance scenario to having near-complete control over their digital lives.

That’s not strictly FOSS.

I’m in the (long) process of migrating a mix of PFsense + Tplink switches + Aruba Instant On APs to a fully unifi infrastructure. Even with the mix of devices, my network has been way more solid than ever with a Unifi Gateway Ultra, a few NanoHD APs (still mixed with some Arubas) and 1 unifi switch assisted by the rest of the tplinks.

I should finish the migration next week, no regrets.

The level and ease of control I have now would not have been possible with the previous infrastructure.

If you can still return the Omada devices, I suggest you do and go Unifi.

This is cool. If you’re worried about the safety on their instance, spin your own. They have a very clear and simple docker way to do just that.

It’s a great looking site at first glance (haven’t signed up yet). I just sandboxed a browser and let it run without forcing HTTPS. Funny thing is that it does show it as being https when disabling https enforcement.

I’ll take it for a spin this afternoon when I get back home (or in my phone when I get bores at the recital my wife is forcing me to go to 🤣🤣🤣).