Seems like Garmin fits the bill, I am still figuring out if that’s my future solution for NFC payments.

I use Graphene on a Pixel 6 right now, it’s absolutely amazing and really fast. Support deadline is October 2026 though, so I am already looking for a replacement.

I didn’t want to give google any money, so I am using a Pixel 6 I got for free at this time. Actually moved from an iPhone 15 and it does not feel slower at all with Graphene OS. I’ll have to upgrade in October when support runs out though, so I’ll be eying used Pixel 9a’s in the summer.

It’s the opposite of useful it would break snowflake. You are setting up Snowflake in the first place to give users who have to deal with VPN and IP blocks the opportunity to connect to the onion network through you - if you hide the snowflake relay behind a VPN it is useless to those users.

Look into Pangolin with crowdsec. It’s basically the all in one tested solution for your plans.

Does Lawrence Systems still not publish on peertube?

Never use SMR disks in a RAID/NAS. You’re taking a huge gamble on data loss / disk failures if you do. Also it will be slow as fuck, really fucking slow, often unusable for anything but incredibly slow backups.

CMR disks are the ONLY way to go.

If I see AI slop I downvote. Shouldn’t that generally take care if it if everybody does it?

Look into tractive a tracker for dogs, it’s quite affordable and made in Austria - which means it respects EU privacy regulations.

Didn’t know that, I always read it was American.

Sorry Canadians - my apologies.

My bad, sorry Canadians!

I just read a thread on hackernews where a bunch of Europeans where switching to netbird because of migration away from US tech, so I guess that was a mistake on their part.

Tailscale is american. There are European alternatives like netbird.io or self hosted headscale.

In some places you can still get 32GB DDR4 for a kidney if you‘re lucky.

It’ll die with me. Albeit probably a slow death over a couple months, I have to be realistic here - none of my family members will care enough to keep anything running in the long run.

It’s the same fate your grandma’s unfinished knitted scarves and socks had a couple years ago.

How are you using Signal without a phone number? - asking cause I genuinely would love to do so!

If you wanna conquer other countries you better get to learning the metric system.

The mirror at my brothers is in another European country 400km away. I think that’s a good protection against natural disasters and fire

Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.

Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.

Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.

And Apple Photos!

I finished transferring all my family members from Apple photos/icloud to my NAS (which is mirrored at my brothers place) yesterday.

All together we will save ~40 USD per month.