Is there any technical reason it cannot be done in a privacy respecting manner? It should be possible to collect a location and speed from a phone with absolutely no other data attached from the device and store this in a database. This would provide a database of anonymous traffic density in a state of flux. You cannot see which phone is which data point, where it is coming from or where it is going to.

The only real reason I can see this is not done is surveillance capitalism.

Nothing man, and he’s all out of ideas!

Amazfit watches are a nightmare to pair with gadgetbridge, getting the auth key necessary to pair them is a completely ridiculous process.

I think I would go for refurbished/used 12tb drives or bigger if money allows. I put 3x12tb in my server 2 years ago and thought I would have more than enough space for a long time…I did not.

What would USB stand for in this? Under Sheets Buddy?

I’ve already looked into gadgetbridge, but all supported devices unfortunately have fairly limited functionality. I get that it’s the premise with the reverse engineering they do to make things almost work.

The bangle.js models are a fucking ugly apple watch clone, I’d never wear that thing. And I’m not looking to get an actual smartwatch, I have no need for any of that clutter or a desire to charge my watch daily or every other day.

I’ve used a coros pace 2 for a long time, definitely not private but very limited smartwatch bullshit and >week of battery with +1h of daily GPS tracked running. Not supported by gadgetbridge though.

To sum up, 70k euros a month is a lot.

Even 10k euro per month is a lot and will be far better than most other people in Europe and allow you to live more than comfortably.

They do not track/log anything on their VPN servers, at least not according the the audits I’ve heard about.

It doesn’t track with GNSS, I don’t run with my phone.

And all of them are limited or require official app alongside of it. I repeat myself; there are no good open source (or just privacy respecting) HW solutions available.

That’s not HW, I need the bloody HW to do any actual HR tracking. GNSS without HR is not worth much to me. There are no good HW solutions on the market, they either violate privacy or suck on a functional level.

A good, no fuss, simple open source GNSS tracker with HR that is compatible with gadget bridge would go a long way. I just want something like a classic casio digital watch that tracks my runs and forwards the raw data for analysis on my phone or a self hosted service.

Tdarr can distribute compute to other nodes, so you could set it up on your server and have your workstation do the actual transcoding.

GPS is not the technology, it is only the US implementation of the technology which is called GNSS.

The key here being that you actually remember the file exists, because it’s important. Some other random spreadsheet you don’t even remember exists because you haven’t needed it since forever is probably not all that important to backup.

If you loose something without ever realizing you lost it, it was not important so there would be no reason to make a backup.

I recently bought a Brume 2 from Gl.Inet, on sale I think it cost me 60€, it runs openWRT and works really well. It has the added bonus of providing a built-in wireguard server (and also client) so I can easily access my home network from anywhere.

If you can spare 130€ the Brume 3 is now out and quite a bit better.

You’d be surprised. If you have ever ordered, or booked, something online, they will absolutely have something to connect that to and from there they keep pulling.

I meant I don’t give it to companies, because I know that’s why they want it.

If you have given it to a person who has any account anywhere that has anything remotely to do with meta-owned entities, and they did not explicitly say no to sharing contacts info (basically just one person giving FB messenger access to their phone contacts), then meta has your phone number, name and a whole bunch of scarily accurate extrapolated data on you and other sources they correlate that with.

Yep, Western Digital said they were sold out of drives for all of 2026. Since 2026 is just starting, they haven’t actually produced those drives or gotten actual money for them.

This is exceedingly normal procedure for manufacturing companies, and not limited to tech industry by any means. They know how much they can potentially produce on their lines, if they have predicted customers to fulfill the capacity for a full year they are basically sold out despite not having produced most of it yet.

The company I work for also has “sold out” for several of our factories because we have orders for 110% production capacity on them. Orders are not paid up front, they never are in any industry, it’s always paid after delivery usually with a 30-90 days delay (and even more in some cases).

There is nothing spectacularly weird or out of place in the announcement they’ve made, it’s basically standard procedure.

If the uplink bandwidth is more than sufficient for users in Europe, and it doesn’t degrade over distance, then why is the same uplink not enough for the exact same thing in Asia?