Whatever https://www.privacyguides.org/ recommends. I am not a big VPN user. I care more about using good apps and prefering the web browser over apps and configuring that.

Same config, I have been using my 8a with graphene since Jan. Works great.

I actually put Google Play and the few apps that use that in the Private Space and just use clean apps in my owner profile. There are a lot of different ways to divide up apps between Owner Profile, Private Space, the 31 separate user profiles, and work profiles.

As for app sources I use mostly Graphene, FDroid, Aurora, and Obtainium stores and tools. I only use Play Store directly in my Private Space. There are pros and cons of course.

Nice detailed log of the author’s experiance.

The one issue I have is the mind set. It seems to be from the point of view that Linux should be just like Windows and use the same software and hardware. If that is what you want run Windows.

On the otherhand if you want to use FOSS apps, use Linux and just dump Windows. My family has used Linux for over 20 years and yes it is fine. But you actually have to want that. And no, I do not use Windows, MS Apps, or Google Chrome at all these days and do not use dual boot.

Also, dual boot gets old pretty fast. Probably best to choose a primary OS and run the other in a VM. Yes, something like 27 years ago I started with dual boot but have not setup that for at least 20 years probably longer.

Wondering same thing. Allowing web interface access via wan has proven to be unwise in general.

Also wondering if DDWRT has the vulnerabilities?

Seems a bit over blown. Looks like firmware update and config reset should close the issue.

I specifically chose a shared hosting situation so they deal with the issues in this case. I do have a VPS and could have placed it there but I did not want the hassle and it is not something my wife could manage if something ever happened to me.

As far as unlimited, they do have such a plan but I do not need it. 30 is infinite in my case.

Depends on your use case. I want partitioning by user and separate credentials by use. So a no for me and catch all.

Yes. I do not use them all, but I can and my cPanel shared hosting only costs $25 per year. I can use web hosting part too if I want. It is all included. The above cost does not include the domain name itself.

See: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/

Edit: Looks like after first year it will be about $50/year.

Your own domain is not great for privacy though like others have said the registrar can hide your info at least from whois. If you already have a domain lookup the whois record and see what it says. Presumably even with whois privacy your identity is probably discoverable.

Custom domains are not great for deliverability too. Though mostly mine is fine. Sometimes Yahoo and ATT manged accounts give me delivery issues.

What your own domain is good for is nice, long term, and portable addresses. Also for many cheap addresses. I get something like 30 email accounts with my basic Namecheap cPanel account for about $25 per year.

Ext4 on LVM can do both volume mirroring and snapshots. The is no COW support with ext4 though.

By the way I use BTRFS with LUKS on my workstation and have for 4 or 5 years. Primarily I like it for the snapshoting. I though I would like COW but frankly very mixed on that especially since there are cases you should not use COW and if you disable COW you loose snapshotting on that file. I have not used the raid capability. One thing I do not like about BTRFS is that I know of no way to track a bad block at the sector level to what file it is in if any. With Ext4 you can.

Another useful backup tool is restic.

This is the way. Use urandom though. Then after that you can just blkdiskard to wipe. I would add sync between the commands.

Seems like one loves vim or one does not. I learned vi back in the mid 80s, hated it then, probablty not going back. These days I thankfully use Geany or nano. Learning vim seems like a right of passage or something.

Even if you say to keep a local copy, I do not think it is truely an independent local copy unless you actually move it to “Local Folders”. Otherwise it is probably just a local replica.

No expert with IMAP, though I have used Thunderbird for decades, I have just switched to IMAP myself in the past year.

POP3 or IMAP? Desktop or Android?

If IMAP, are you sure your local folders are actually local?

Edit: By local I mean in the “Local Folders” tree not under your domain tree where the inbox is.

Peertube is the distributed Fediverse platform. The issue of course is ability to monetize and discoverability, both huge issues for creators. No creators, no content.

I think maybe qemu-img can do that depending on vmdk version. There are otherways too. They are all just disk images. One unknown, will the device drivers match well enought.

Is there a reason not to just convert the VMWare image to qcow2 and use that?

Is there anything different about installing OpenFyde compared to say Linux? If not why not just follow a Linux how to?

Just a couple of ideas.

Ubuntu should be able to. They even have some sort of kernel hot patching service I have not used.

If you do not care about kernal updates then most distros should be fine. Just ignore the reboot suggestions.

Edit: If you do not reboot you might want to make sure critical things are restarted such as you web browser. Or just logout and login again. One hopes the distro appropriately handles service updates but who knows for certain.

Drainage is often done incorrectly in new construction too. Very common to have all the water drop beside the front door and create a pond. Very common to have beds around the house that create little swimming pools. If nothing else the ground will sink around the foundation and have to be filled quite soon.

I am a FOSS guy so I’d just configure Debian or Ubuntu to do most of the server, media center, desktop, and laptop stuff. Smart Phones Google Pixel 8a or another a series flashed with GrapheneOS. For network I would look at PfSense, OPNSense, OpenWrt, or DD-WRT devices. I have DD-WRT devices but have they do not get updates sadly, but there are some vendors that base their devices on DD-WRT. Not sure which ones. ASUS? Buffalo? Is there a list somewhere?

The other direction is to go more commercial which is probably what you want. Lot of people like Synology products. In particular they have nice NAS products (which actually can run other services too) which should be fine if you just run them on the LAN. If you want to connect while traveling, setup some sort of VPN. Do not expose any of this stuff to the WAN. For network devices I would consider Netgate, I think they have some PfSense firewalls. Some people seem to like Ubiquiti stuff.

I personally have generally favored Netgear but as I said, I mostly have just re-flashed with DD-WRT but am thinking of doing something different at least with regard to my boundary router. It has gotten so we all need to have our network devices rapidly updated, especially exposed ones like the boundary router.

Consider low maintenance materials. Simple roof line, with good landscape drainage away from the house. Metal, ideally stainless steel roof. Triple pane metal clad or fiberglass windows choose by the sun exposure in terms of coatings. Heavily insulated. ERV ventilation. Consider commercial grade doors, and hurricane approved windows, etc. Consider unpainted stucco or another low maintenance exterior. Ground loop heat pumps for heating. Enough electrical capacity for all electric house including eV charging, but with backup power source. Design for no maintenance in the first 50 or 100 years. You might consider a safe room.

Edit: Might consider hidden and/or locked storage too, a locked filing cabinet at least, or a safe.

Edit: You might also consider a security, home automation, and house monitoring system but choose carefully. One that you control, not some cloud service.