This sounds very handy.

Sometimes I don’t want to use command line. Sometimes I just want to use a mouse.

Because like it or not a lot of people still use those services and don’t want messages they previously thought were private showing up on fucking Google.

Tailscale is just wireguard with a central management console.

Yes, and it’s very useful. Cockpit, too.

I would never expose either of them to the internet.

What was that second app?

Both can be true. Every “controversy” that Proton has had ended up being a big ol’ nothingburger that was blown way the fuck out of proportion.

Even better. You supply the phone, they pay for the plan. No more thought involved.

I already run Immich, got 3 years worth of photos on it. I just need to get the rest of my photos out of Google.

The company can give me the SIM and pay the bill but I control what phone I use.

Is it a monthly stipend? If so, and it’s enough to pay for a decent plan, then IMO that is a fair alternative.

I wholly agree with you about not using personal devices for work. I’ve had a work-issued phone for almost 15 years in varying forms. I set up an automation to turn on DND mode 5 minutes after my shift ends.

What I would do is find an older iPhone, like a 15 or something, and use that for your work device. My current work device is an iPhone 17e, and I just got it like a month ago from our IT dept to replace my aging-but-still-perfectly-functional iPhone 12.

Daily reminder for me to pull my data from Google and host it myself.

That’s not what it is, but keep making things up.

Reverse engineering this kind of shit and using it against big tech is like the one use of AI that I fully support. Just not as a permanent solution.

I saw the light once I started moving shit onto my Home Assistant instance. It is vastly superior to anything the big tech companies have shat out. Whenever I buy a “smart” device, I make sure that it’s either 100% hackable (ex.: ESP32-controlled AC or tower fan) or 100% local (ex.: Shelly devices).

I have like 150GB of DDR3 spread over multiple 2/4/8/16GB sticks, I wonder if I can get that working for something like this 🤔

When automated manufacturing systems break, I’m the guy they call to fix it…

strix halo (128GB)

googles

Jesus christ

Edit: I did it. It’s so refreshing. Forcing Google play services to run inside of a sandbox is very clever.

Its basically a one-click web installer. It literally could not be any easier than the early ROM days.

I know. I installed it on my wife’s phone (on her request).

Stop being lazy!

But I don’t wanna 😂

In all seriousness, I just need to go through all my apps and make sure what I need backed up is actually backed up, then I will feel confident enough to take the plunge. I haven’t flashed a ROM on my daily driver device in quite a few years now… That process has come a very long way since 2010 hahaha.

Oh I already have a 9 Pro XL that I bought on release day directly from google. My wife has one as well and she already runs Graphene.

I’m just a lazy ass… 😅

In this day and age, the question should no longer be “will <x> run on Linux?”, rather “what’s the best method for doing <x> on Linux?”

Because - again, in this day and age - Linux is extremely capable and runs damn near the entire internet.