Yeah, it seems that everything has an imperfection, unfortunately. Just gotta choose one. I’d jump on Signal if they remove the phone number, but like you I think it’s the shiniest of the bunch. I just want media with captions, uncompressed uploads, the ability to search messages, full e2ee for calls and messages, the ability to conference call, secure message migration/sync to a new client, emoji/rich text and markdown format support, by a company that promises not to access its users’ messages, location or other identifying information.

How far they have fallen… Which would you recommend, sans self-hosting a service? Signal?

Telegram allegedly complied with a government to give them user data, and their e2e encryption was switched to be off by default. I know because when I started the chat with someone we raved about how it says ‘end to end encrypted’ before sending a message. Well, between then and when I decided to migrate off it, that private one-to-one chat’s encryption was switched off.

I say it’s okay, but only ensure that e2ee is on

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“He left work just one hour before his shift ended”

I know Jellyfin/Emby is compatible with music, but I’m advising you now to not try and cram all your media in one software. I recommend Navidrome as a music hoster. The con is that I haven’t written a guide for it, as I run Proxmox it was almost too easy to need one.

As you’re just starting out I’d recommend picking any Linux distro, putting the ISO on a USB drive and booting the server machine from it to install. Well, you know how to install an OS. Next, install Navidrome (guide) via the Linux or Docker guides, modify the config file to point to your music folder and change any setting you like, for example the port, and run it via systemctl or docker.

After that, login via browser with the given admin creds, make a user account for you and anyone else, install slskd for downloading and beets for correctly organising into the music directory, set up a reverse proxy to point to the Navidrome UI or connect via IP from any Subsonic client or web browser.

If you want you can install Proxmox from the start - I found it incredibly handy to make different containers and VMs to handle different projects, and in terms of Navidrome I got the install script from tteck, ran it, and once done I modified the toml variables to what I wanted and restarted the service. Plug & play.

I can’t believe anyone would think that clickbait is something people want. There is no purpose to it here - no affiliate monetary gain, no cash for clicks - just a Youtube video. Note that my quarrel is with the video uploader, not OP

Holy shit guys NKBTN went back

Build a multinational resistance of ‘extremist terrorists’ willing to kill and be arrested, team with Anonymous, and wait for Luigi Mangione to be ready to join us.

Because, as the US and UK governments would have us believe, the term ‘terrorist’ means someone who threatens not the lives of the innocent, but the possessions of the financially rich, morally corrupt and politically powerful.

Philips Hue are still the best, but I’ve heard IKEA Tradfri are great too. The reasons for Hue bulbs being great are that they are extremely reliable, and their colour frequency range is said to be highest (and if you use a third party controller with their lightstrips the saturation/range isn’t as wide). The cost is worth it. When my router fucks up it’s really nice to have all my motion sensors (Also Hue), quick buttons (SNZB-01P) and lights work together.

A reason for not choosing Hue is they may not be as bright as you hope. As you seem to want white temperatures only and not the full colour spectrum, know that the regular bulbs are 800W and they’ve fairly recently got 1.6KW bulbs. So look for those if you want.

As for a dongle, I bought mine years ago but the Sonoff range is brilliant - their ZigBee USB dongles are very popular and very reliable. Tge one I own is the ‘Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus (CC2652P Coordinator)’, also known as ‘ZBDongle-P’. Many folk warn against the ZBDongle-E.

That’s okay for me, because I don’t use their bridge the Hue Hub, or their app.

I’ve seen a documentary describing in detail the construction of the shelter, as well as a recent video by B1M talking about the damage caused by the drone, and this one. I believe you’re talking about this discussion of the damage by Kyiv Independent?

Ashton fucking Kutcher, huh. Wild timeline.

Github is great but it’s owned by Microsoft. If that alone doesn’t dissuade you, their integration of their Copilot AI to speed up the creation of vibe-coded projects might. This latest change would.

Luckily there is at least one FOSS alternative, codeberg.org. Its base, Forgejo, is self-hostable, therefore security is in your hands.

I recognise that ReMarkable is top tier rn for eReading, but £350 is uncomfortably high for me. Roughly 50 physical books’ worth before buying any books.

Worth it if you have the money to spare.

it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

I was worried some corporation would create a product that does this. The best option then would be to trash it.

Best thing to do is vote with your wallet - don’t buy Amazon e-commerce if you don’t support them. It’s worth noting that the vast majority of their value comes from AWS, but there’s little we can do about that.

It can’t phone home if it isn’t powered, that’s for sure.

You can always set up a PiHole or AdGuard Home instance and route traffic from the doorbell to keep an eye on it, and block any domains it tries to access that you don’t need. Or disable its WAN access entirely. Custom DNS settings in the router would be ideal, just set it to the IP of the instance, but as I’ve discovered some ISPs like to remove that setting as part of their enshittification.

But browsers have a marker for dangerous sites - surely Cloudflare, Amazon or Google should have a report system and deliver warnings at the base

Better dead than Gentile, eh. Fuck Israel