Might be a good opportunity to justify buying a Flipper Zero.

But boy, if he does…

I recommend installing calibre web on a home server, installing koreader on the Kobo, and accessing your eBook library over your WiFi and OPDS.

Koreader is such a good reading experience, I never want to go back to stock firmware (well, except for the dictionaries maybe, those are better.)

This looks promising, but I can’t get it to work.

Wireguard, even though they explicitly mention it in their tutorials, doesn’t have an allow/block list for me, so I can’t allow the proxy network bridge. Curious those settings are gone. Too bad!

Thanks, but not an option.

Much obliged.

I agree, it’s a good solution. Just not worth the downsides for my situation currently.

Really? How does that work? Maybe it’s time to look into Tailscale after all…

Thanks for the ideas. I’ll consider it, although my use case doesn’t really warrant carrying a router around.

Having strong opinions is what Graphene does. 😅

And they do seem to be an authority on all things security, so most of the time I like that about them.

Thanks for the link. I am on Graphene, and if a fellow poster in here is correct that doesn’t help. Bummer.

Dang, also on Graphene…

here’s a thread with official Graphene voices saying it won’t happen (and why)

Right, thanks.

“authentication is not security,” can you elaborate on that?

Your statement doesn’t really overlap with my understanding of security, as “just access” seems critically relevant to how secure user data is, for example. Am I missing something?

EU servers might be worth something to some people, depending on where they are in the world. And while 190% is indeed “way more expensive”, relatively speaking, it’s still “well under” your goal of EUR 2 per month.

I’ve read good things about migadu. Haven’t used it myself.

the password game irl

No harm in giving it a try, but I personally wouldn’t bother with a selfhosted solution for it. Especially if you’re not sure it will work out.

Well, paint me green and call me a pickle. More power to you if it works. 😊

Tangent, unsolicited:

Music lessons over video call, that has to be a real pain. I can’t find it now, but there’s an Adam Neely video where he talks about why online recording sessions can’t work, as transmission latency works against the immediacy needed to play music together. He said it better than I can.

Except if your idea is to play in turns, but then capturing the thing you want to show… Can’t you find another teacher closer to you?