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First I’ve heard of Virpus but thanks for the heads up. More than 50% packet loss does not sound like a working infrastructure, much less one that should be marketed to consumers.

You could check out HTML5UP for some simple, well designed site templates. For your needs, maybe something like the Astral template will do?

Agreed. Most people online think having a personal website on their own domain is too much of a hassle, they won’t have the knowledge or time to setup a homelab server.

We need more of the nice people you mention — with the tech knowhow and surplus of time — to maintain community services as alternatives to corporate platforms. I see a few co-op services around where member-owners pay a fee to have access to cloud storage and social platforms; that is one way to ensure the basic upkeep of such a community. I’m not sure how Chatons is financed but they certainly have a wide range of libre and private offerings!

You say that with such certainty, as if proof of stake schemes won’t simply be a greenwashing alibi for accelerating validation of currencies using them, to the point of the same carbon footprint as POW.

You’re simply wrong to say that POS is without environmental impact, even Ethereum’s carbon reductions were only that (and not nearly as high as they claimed).

Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. I think there is a certain overlap in the language used around general privacy principles and the more… out there, political anti-society movements.

Sometimes it’s innocent and random but when I see somebody putting cryptocurrency up front in their project and using “sovereign computing” as a tagline, my internal crackpot detector goes nuts. I’m fairly sure that deep down these people would want to see the world burn to stay warm toward the end.

The title literally says “Sovereign computing”. Are you okay? I do recommend reading from the top down, for more information please re-read.

It’s been a buzzword among the ultra-libertarian, anti-government, tinfoil hat wearing set for decades.

True. Tipi, Umbrel and CasaOS are savvy enough to do this. But do you really want to teach more cryptobros to slip their message under the threshold? I’m fine that they show their true goals front and centre, it’s like a note saying “hit me” taped to their backs.

“Sovereignty”, that big white whale of the dysfunctional far right?

I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it’s flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can’t use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.

BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING

LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.

I used to have an old laptop stuck in a corner just running Transmission. I called that Seed because that was its sole purpose. Its replacement is fully automated *arr and media server, making it both seed and vault, so I had to call it Spitsbergen (reference)

Hmmm, so DivestOS supports bootloader relocking, huh? I’ll have to give that a look.

Oh, good catch! They have their own repository that can easily be added to the F-droid app. I think repos deserve special mention, editing my op.

That would be in your phone main settings I guess, and specific to your device? In no Android stock or custom ROM I’ve used have I seen a “photos button (bottom right)”.

Completely agree about Nextcloud. The project rose to fame on selfhosters beta testing it, then buddied up to enterprise users and ditched the initial user base.

If you want to scale way down, Sabre develops the very lightweight Baïkal. I’ve been using it for a couple of years, and it’s worked without a hitch. Just sits there and does its thing.

Ooh, good one! I’ll try to stick to the very basics that I’ve installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.

• MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
• DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
• ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
• Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
• KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
• Fossify apps. There’s a whole suite but I only use
  • Fossify calendar,
  • Fossify contacts,
  • Fossify SMS messenger.
• Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
• K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
• Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
• Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it’s called “Pro”, it’s not like there’s a paid tier)
• Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn’t on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.

Edited to add:

• NewPipe! — third party YouTube player that puts a stick in Google’s tracking and profiling.

Additional repositories

F-droid is great and all but its best feature really is that you can add other app repositories alongside the flagship one. IMO you absolutely need to add the following repos for the best selection (ie., adapted to my list above 😉)

• IzzyOnDroid
• MicroG
• NewPipe

Suggestions for more repos?

It is federated, but no, it isn’t connected to Solid pods. Pods are just the term for flocks of whales 🙂

Use Gluetun. Love Gluetun. Gluetun is the answer.

Alright, alright Hypno-toad, you got me! 😅

Jokes aside, this is probably the most convincing writeup I’ve seen in favour of Gluetun. Thanks, will give it a go!