Do you have a list of items you’d be willing to share?

I’m currently using an iPhone and I had planned to go back to Android the next time I upgraded because I missed F-Droid, Obtainium, and the choice of different browser engines more than I expected. This kind of throws a wrench into that plan. If my choice is between walled garden and walled garden, why switch?

I’m currently looking into LineageOS to see if the cons of it are something I can tolerate. GrapheneOS seems cool but every pixel I’ve had has been unusable in the summer due to how it heats up and slows down to compensate. This sucks

I agree with you in principle. I just think, for the majority of people, it’s not worth the risk of getting fired and getting set back in life for public comments over a YouTuber’s death. I’m not saying there are no hills to die on, this just doesn’t seem like the one.

I said this in a reply to someone else but my issue here is risk assessment, not whether the comments are abhorrent or not. I’ve read enough accounts regarding different periods of history where citizens turned each other in. If I’m going to get fired, doxxed, turned in, etc., I would want it to be over something that means more than opinions shared of Charlie Kirk.

…should be cancelled?

No. I intended my comment to be more of a statement on risk assessment. Seemingly half the country is on the right. A non-insignificant portion of them would probably be empathetic to Charlie Kirk’s death.

If I’m reading the rest of your comment correctly, I’d say we are in agreement. I don’t condone the right getting people fired over this, I don’t think it’s fair, and I don’t think it’s right of them to do so. But I do think the right trying to get people fired was foreseeable and it surprises me just how many people have attached their names to their comments, especially if they aren’t set up financially to deal with any potential fallout.

I completely agree with you on principle. My problem is that I don’t make “fuck you” money and whether we like it or not, seemingly half the country disagrees with our views. I can’t be starting fights and setting myself back over a YouTuber’s death.

I’m going to get downvoted for this but we on the left get people fired too

No matter how you actually feel about Charlie Kirk’s death, no matter how deserving he was of these comments, posting them with your government name attached to it is a bad move

You’ll have to scroll down a bit and maybe view it in reader mode but NY Times is reporting differently

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news/investigators-eye-a-hunting-rifle-for-clues-to-the-gunmans-identity-and-motive

This isn’t exactly what you asked for but just in case it might interest you; I ordered this Aoostar WTR Pro recently to replace an Odroid that died on me. It has an intel N150 and lets you install whatever OS you want. I’m pretty happy with it so far.

Paperless-ngx - it allows you to upload important documents like receipts, contracts, etc. and uses OCR so you can search them

Agreed. They’ll erode everyone else’s right to privacy in order to “protect children”

Parents are free to restrict the content their children view. If the parents choose not to learn how to set up those restrictions, that’s on them.

Our government is broken. First the House of Representatives have to vote to impeach a president. Then the senate has to vote to remove the president from office.

Trump was impeached by the, at the time, left leaning house of representatives in his first term but the right leaning senate didn’t vote to impeach him so he stayed in office.

At the moment, both the house and senate lean right so they aren’t likely to do anything. The supreme court also basically said the president is above the law so they aren’t likely to do anything either.

To go along with that, Telegram doesn’t make it easy to set up an encrypted chat. First, you have to set up a regular chat, then tap on the profile image of the person you are messaging, then tap the 3 dot menu, and finally tap “secret chat”. It’s there but they clearly don’t want people using it.

I’ll DM you in a bit but real quick I just wanted to say I thought you improved in this episode. Great work

has some basic monitoring on them.

What monitoring software are you using?

I feel like the other measures you talked about (backups, condom of network traffic, etc) I’m doing ok on. Its really just the monitoring where I’m stuck. There’s so many options

I’ve seen a bunch of people recommend Authelia. Do you mind if I ask why you went with it over other software? I only went with authentik because I found a tutorial on it first

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4. I saw someone else recommend crowdsec. I’ll look into it, thanks

if you use one of those 5$/month VPSes, with a VPN tunnel to your backend services, that adds one layer of “if it’s compromised, they’re not in your house”.

I’ve heard this mentioned before but I don’t really understand how this works in practice. If the VPS was compromised, couldn’t they use the VPN to then connect to my home?

Caddy only allows private IP ranges

Do you mind telling me more about this? How does that work; a VPN?

will do, thanks