GrapheneOS is the best option that I know of for a phone ROM. LineageOS for MicroG is a decent alternative for de-googled ROMs, and it supports a wider range of devices. It’s not the official LineageOS, but is maintained on a separate site that hosts builds that include MicroG. Official LineageOS does not support MicroG but can be installed without Google crap (and will not work with things that require google play services)
No need to feel powerless - just don’t use the bullshit that you don’t want to use.
I use zero banking apps or payment apps on my phone, because financial stuff is too important to be stored in a pocket-sized device that can be lost or stolen. I have no problem accomplishing payments online or in person, using cards or cash.
But anyway, this new industry plan is good news and they should carry on doing that.
Technically no, because it’s cloud-hosted infrastructure. Businesses usually call this IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service.
But it’s still a good way to build your own services that you can possibly trust more than public cloud services. IMO posts about setting up your own trusted services could be valuable content for the community even if you set it up on the cloud.
I’ve learned a lot from reading RV forums and stuff like that. It’s common to install DC-powered battery heating pads that run on relatively low watts to keep batteries warm enough to charge. I’ll probably do that too.
To keep a person warm, you’d probably need more power like at least 250-700 watts to run a heat lamp or small space heater. But that is easily doable with solar and batteries now.
My Lithium solar batteries can’t charge today while the sun is out shining brightly, because it’s below freezing and I don’t have battery heaters installed. They’re in an outdoor shed so they can’t burn down my house.
Docker compose Nextcloud could allow you to define your standard Nextcloud server in a yml config file that’s reusable.
Example near the bottom of this page - https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/
There is no guarantee unless you could personally audit their facilities and inspect what they did with your account etc. But I would still choose one that states they have a good policy versus one that says nothing on the subject.
What about logging policies? Seems like that would be an important category to visit - which providers store logs or don’t etc. I’ve heard of some that use RAM-only logging that allegedly never gets stored on disk.
Self-hosters are probably the type of people who are interested in getting away from “big tech” corporate solutions for everything, so it makes sense that they would prefer Fediverse versions
You don’t have to host your whole family’s library though. You can start with whatever you want and be on the road to improving your setup.
MP3 players aren’t bad, they’re just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.
I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music at most.
Another thing VLC can do that some might not be aware of is downloading streaming media to file for storage. If you can find the right stream URL, VLC can save whatever that is to MP4 or your format of choice. Save your favorite shows / streams / podcasts to disk and keep them safe in your own personal media server!
That’s true but it’s not in the same ballpark as GPS tracking. The phone company knows what county I’m in but probably not what businesses and municipal buildings I enter on foot unlike GPS location services. Bluetooth and Wifi are also disabled when I leave the house to minimize those being used for device tracking.
It’s just good practice to disable all the unused wireless radios in your pocket computer. Don’t turn them on until you need them on. It saves a lot of battery life too.
My kids don’t even have phones, as they do not need them and they are unhealthy for the young brain’s development.
I also don’t use location services on my phones. Fuck all that tracking bullshit.
Nope, that is not correct. The rights remain in place and may be exercised at will.
The people are armed as well.
That’s not true, because the Constitution applies to the whole place. Americans and non-citizens freely exercise those rights in those areas daily.
If any agent of the government tells you otherwise, you must educate them and enforce the free exercise of your own rights.
1st Amendment protections on freedom of speech apply to everyone in the USA, regardless of citizenship. Frenchman should sue.
Cool, I hadn’t heard of that. So instance admins can access their lists via API I see. Should be possible to “spam filter” federations that way at least.
Maybe this stuff can be expanded to include a spam list of bad users and links too, for Lemmy servers to parse via API and block.
Yep, that checks out, looks like an asteroid