I have the first one and its good. Could have a bit better range, I suppose that’s where the 2 comes in, but otherwise very stable and easy to use.

Seems like you know what you need to study. I’d suggest searching for the topics and reading. Don’t try to skim, there is a lot to read and learn but it will be worth it, it will open many doors for you. Tutorials in this domain have usually an issue that following a track to achieve something the author can’t really explain everything on the path to the depth because, well, it would be lots of reading anyway and it would end up to be documentation rather than tutorial.

What I tend to do, it may or may not help you, depends on your individual way of learning, is I search for a topic to find some good article. Takes time, but then, usually, after the read I have more things from the article I need to understand more. This sort of branching leads to a good wholesome of a knowledge. In the past I used to skim a lot, which resulted in a lots of trial and error instances, eventually it lead to frustration from not knowing what the heck I was doing. When I realized reading and understanding should not really be skipped/skimmed, I started learning a lot.

Well… Been using Proton since 2020 and ever since that I don’t have spam issues. I am also using aliases, so if somebody sends me way too many newsletters I just disable the alias. This probably won’t help you, but you asked 😀

Cool, I will check it, the more resources on this the better, thanks!

Oh wow, I was looking for this not long time ago and didn’t find it. I will try it 😀 Thanks a lot. I will let you know if I have same problem/manage to solve it somehow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

but provides mechanisms for the companies or the courts to reject or challenge these if they believe the request violates the privacy rights of the foreign country the data is stored in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

require American companies to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking private data.

Again I am not saying US is ok, but for every 1 PRISM in US there is 100 in china.

I saw a tutorial on how to bypass the battery entirely. It was oneplus 6 phone and I definitely want to do it 😀… found it: https://blog.kedio.co/post/how-to-run-a-oneplus-6t-without-battery/

I wish I could install postmarketOS on my Lumia 520 😢 I do have it on my old oneplus though 🥳

I don’t trust the biggest guys on the market… I wouldn’t trust iRobot if Amazon did acquire it. But smaller companies do not have enough leverage on EU (I am from EU). They have to adhere, there are audits that must be made and I somehow trust more in audits and rule adherence on US side rather than the Chinese ones.

It is, but such solutions do not always meet with wife’s approval 😅

I am not fan of America, believe me, but US companies (apart from Zuck and a few others) still have more incentive to adhere to EU rules than the Chinese ones. Also the Chinese companies have to also adhere to Chinese govt rules, that have way more hidden agenda than the US ones (we will see what happens with the trumpette guy…)

Sure, if you want China to have videos of you, your kids and your home. Roomba so far has the “best” privacy policy from all the companies. I am not saying its warranted, it never is with proprietary software/hardware, but Chinese companies are known for ignoring laws regarding privacy.

Not even looking into VPNs in general. He can start by looking into tailscale specifically. But I agree opening ports should be a NO GO, especially for beginners.

I bought used rtx 2060 12 Gigz vram edition for about 150 bucks and it runs pretty well. 4B models run well, I even ran 12B models and while its not the fastest experience, its still decent enough. Sad truth is that nvidia gpus are miles better than any other cards for ai even running linux.

I think that we put too many things into home assistant and it’s becoming the everything app. Personally, I prefer some level of separation. Actually having a separate dashboard, self hosted app for just a gadgetbridge would be nice and there is a potential that in the future it can aggregate from more apps than just the gadgetbridge. Just an example, I am currently using Endurain for my workouts. I use open tracks to record them and then I upload them to Endurain. I do this exactly because I want to have stats on the desktop somewhere and I do care more about workouts than any other stats, but if there were also my sleep stats and steps and stuff that would be really nice.

I have recently moved non-vm truenas to a new hardware and actually it was a breeze. I just created the backup, disconnected the drives, physically put them into the new server, install the truenas, restored the backup, and it was done. I understand that everyone has different preferences. I’m just saying that it’s easy to move truenas without it being the VM as well.

Agreed. Proxmox is not worth the complexity. Install truenas, you can put all the apps on that and you can have home assistant in VM. All you need is one machine. I actually have this setup. I only installed Proxmox on other machine to test it and to install OpenWRT and a bunch of networking software on that. If I feel confident, I will use this as my new router, but that’s long way to go. Oh, and by the way, Truenas in virtual machine is not recommended. I originally thought I will also install Truenas in Proxmox, but after reading plenty resources and things about pass-through I finally decided that I was stick to the recommendation and not use proxmox with truenas. I do not regret the decision.

I can tell you that the best one man projects are those that they do first and foremost for themselves, because a/they enjoy it a lot and b/you see a lots of thought behind the project. So thats what i recommend, start by doing what you need and eventually the project will grow and maybe people will join…

That boy doing so much work for privacy and linux communities. I love it!

You are welcome :) And enjoy! Its really fun 😊