Global clipboard synced with the smartphone thanks to KDE connect !

No,

There is all the backup of all my family pictures in the drives.

If something happens to me I want to make due that they will have access to it.

It’s a real story!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

At the beginning of the 20th century Henry Ford’s electrical engineers had issues they could not solve with a gigantic generator. Henry Ford called Steimmetz, a genius mathematician working for GE to help them.

When he arrive at the factory he spent 2 days and night listening to the generator and scribbling on his notebook.

After that he asked for a ladder, climbed on it, put a chalk mark on a specific spot and explain to the engineers that they needed to remove the plate and replace sixteen windings behind the plate. After that the generator worked perfectly and Ford received a $10 000 bill.

Ford asked for an itemized bill and Steinmetz sent this

• Making chalk mark on generator $1.
• Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

I was doing some blacksmithing in high school, mostly knifes.

When reaching 800°C steel is not magnetic anymore, it’s also a good temperature to start forging the steel. So I needed a atrong magnet to know when the steel was hot enough, I used what I have available: a hard drive magnet.

It felt quite “mad-maxy” to disassemble a broken hard drive to use it as a tool to forge knifes

I’ve lost some of my sanity reading this !

Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.

After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.

We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.

Yes, this particular ratio allows the fact that you can fold a A3 paper in two and get two A4 sheet

I’m probably not the beat person to answer to you about the technical aspect and I’m not sure if I fully understand your question.

However I can tell you that there is no need to change anything at network level for tailscale to work.

I’ve installed and used tailscale on desktops, VM, raspberry, NAS or smartphone on plenty of different network, I’ve also remotely guided people to install tailscale on their machine at home and it always just worked. No issue at all and nothing to change on the network for it to work.

What I enjoy with tailscale is that the traffic goes directly from the host to the client.

Since there is no cloud relay I can connect to all my services via tailscale, even on local network and it’s not going to impact the speed.

This way I only have one setup that works the same way on local network or remotely but still have the local network speed when I am at home.

For remote access I would recommend using Tailscale or the self-hosted equivalent Headscale.

It’s extremely easy to set up and much more secure than opening ports.

Here is the instructions to install and setup Tailscale https://tailscale.com/download/

I’m running jellyseerr and jellyfin and it’s running well. I find that it’s less headaches than Plex.

Bitwarden offer the option to set up an emergency contact.

You choose someone to be an emergency contact, it means that if they want they can request access to view your passwords.

When they send a request you receive several emails to warn you and after X (you can choose the amount) days if you don’t do anything they get access to your account.

Bitwarden for me. My password manager is not just for me, it’s also a crucial component of my family life so if something happened to me I want my next of kin to be able to access it

For that it needs to be an easy to access solution.

This is basically what the bank are doing when you get a loan.

When you get a $25k loan from a bank the banker does not take money from somewhere to put it in your bank account. The banker basically just add a +25k in your bank account that comes from nowhere.

I feel like your comment made a better job at selling the project than the whole post.

I read the post and I was thinking meh, bit after reading your comment I’m ready to install it to see if it can replace searXNG

I just it with protonVPN on Linux with no issue.

I don’t know about exit node on Tailscale because I don’t use it but the rest is working absolutely fine.

I’m using it for work.

At first it was just me, I needed a remote access and I was not a big fan of using the chrome remote desktop that was the “solution” by their IT technician.

So I’ve setup tailscale and used it to access the shared folders and Remote Desktop.

After that, with my boss approval, I’ve set it up for several others person in the company and external consultant. Honestly it’s great, it just work, it’s secure and it is so easy to set up. With just few WhatsApp messages I can give instructions to have the remote desktop running, even to people not especially comfortable with computers.

Bitwarden has an option called emergency contact.

The emergency contact can request access to see all the saved passwords. If I don’t deny the request then the request is automatically approved after X days.

I feel like this would cover most of the issues in the article.

I’m curious too. It was a very good service and I’m really sad to see them go.

What made me choose bitwarden is the emergency access feature.

It allows to designate someone as an emergency contact. This person can request access to your vault and if you don’t deny the request then they will have access after x days.

This way, if something happens to me then someone in my close family can still access my account.

I got the case recently with my brother in law who got into an accident and thanks God his laptop was not locked so my sister could access his accounts.

Because if not it can be a nightmare ! Having to deal with all the utilities company, harassing you because you did not pay the bill that arrived on a locked email account, then not being able to pay the bill anyways because you have to connect on they website … on top of getting your husband and the father of your child in the hospital in a coma.