My Chromecast will ignore my network DNS and use 8.8.8.8.

Google’s services will also ignore the system CA certs and use their own, so it’s really difficult to inspect what it’s transmitting.

My current server is just my previous desktop PC hardware. $0 when you repurpose while upgrading your desktop.

1. It’s 20% higher than it was 8 years ago.
2. It’s China. When I worked in the air quality monitoring industry, we had to develop mechanisms to detect when someone had stuffed a rag in front of the air sensor… because of events that only occurred in China.

We already got that. We just don’t think it should stop there.

It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. https://www.plex.tv/plans/

And after you install your monthy server update, things break because Grandma’s client is suck in the Obama era.

They won’t even get to the login screen.

All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.

But now telling then it’s $3/month to watch my pirated movies? No bueno.

And on topic, I develop a commercial app and there is no way I am dropping a rating or review on it.

So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They’re just gonna stop backing up?

Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s

Android without Google services is basically taking the capitalism away.

Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS without installing Google Play.

Slap on F-Droid for apps and you have a phone that doesn’t talk to Google at all, and is completely beyond their control.

I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.

I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.

The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive. My backup job is just a btrfs snapshot followed by an rsync command.

I don’t trust cloud backups. There was an event at work where Google Cloud accidentally deleted an entire company just as I was about to start a project there.

I have ONE password written down on paper, laminated, and hidden in a spot where only the wife and I know. Can you guess what it’s for?

My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.

Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.

Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.

Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.

I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.

Privacy is not a product you can purchase.

Why would you go to Japan to live like a Muslim? I would imagine most Japanese would rather see their population shrink.

I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app

My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.

I can be absolutely certain no apps can access my mic in the background. Even when in the foreground, there is a hot-mic indicator.

It’s “com.android.calculator2” which suggests it’s the AOSP calculator or a close fork of it.

I have no issues with it. It calculates. That’s all I need it to do.

It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends’ OC (not reshared garbage).

It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.

You’d think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.