For sure, I suppose the point I was making is everyone’s version of the “American Dream” can be different, and people should not feel the need to be always “keeping up with the Joneses” in a sense.

The “American Dream” is propaganda. Typical single family home in the suburbs, and a “traditional family values” family.

What is “The American Dream”?

It always seems to be portrayed idealistically as a single family home in a car dependent suburb. A large driveway, and massive front lawn with a white picket fence. Something like in the image below.

Almost all these similar photos have a “traditional family values vibe”, white family, stay at home mom, two kids of different genders. Honestly it all just screams propaganda to me.

On top of all that when you “zoom out”, that typical “American Dream” becomes a car dependent hellscape ike the one below. With no way to get around.

I don’t know, but not everyone has a wish to live in a place like this. Give me walkable transit oriented mixed use neighborhoods with “missing middle” housing types any day.

Throw in “third-place” public areas where I can hang out with friends and family outside of home and work. Give me regional trains between cities, subways and trams, dedicated bus infrastructure. Give me safe cycling networks and dedicated trails. Give me city parks and fresh produce markets I can walk to.

How trustworthy are those sites? I do use them time to time but always asking this question to myself.

To shreds, you say?

This really depends on your comfort levels TBH. My first NAS was a old motherboard with about 4gb of memory and a old core 2 duo cpu.

If you have any old components such as a old laptop, or a old pc, or maybe some thing like a raspberry pi you can start tinkering with Samba shares.

With a raspberry pi you could run something like HomeAssistant and setup a small smaba share. Plug a hardrive in and you have a network share to store files.

As for older pc components you can start with something like truenas, it’s a little bit of a learning curve but it’s a good way to tinker and slowly start to learn.

For me I run truenas for all my home NAS and media storage. On the side, another pc runs something called Unraid for services like Nextcloud and Immich to keep things separated.

That was hilarious, but I was thinking more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_AClH99tM

To many ICE agents must have been going to the washroom with the gloves still turned on.

I wish there were some viable “fully cooked” alternatives. I won’t touch apple products with a 10 foot poll, and I owned the first and second iPhone.

As for Linux phone i have tinkered with it but its nowhere close to being a daily driver, yet.

Strangely sometimes I wish the Microsoft phone was not a total flop…

I guess the only thing left if a completely dumb phone, but that does not help if you use your phone more as a “pocket computer” then a phone at all.

I’m in the same boat as well, for some reason my music apps can’t seem to see my Google smart speakers, but strangely they can see my Nvidia shield and cast to that.

Looked through my app permissions I honestly can’t see anything out of the ordinary or plainly obvious. Both my speakers and android TV (shield) are on separate segment VLAN.

As for granting the permission, I generally like to grant on a app by app basis, lots of apps ask for internet access as a example but don’t actually require it to function. All my game apps for example are completely offline.

Hey can you let me know where I can find more info on this? I am running GrapheneOS as I was having this exact same issue as OP a few day back.

On my browsers I have network access, but nearby devices was disabled.

I checked my private dns settings and granted nearby devices access to my browsers, which allowed me to hit my local self-hosted services.

Just wondering if there is a better way to achieve the same.

Ran into this issue a few days ago, exactly the same way you described.

I am on GrapheneOS and figured it was something to do with a a setting where it’s blocking network access for my specific browser app. After reading your post I see it’s a android 17 feature.

Checked all the settings in my browsers related to DNS at first and was stumped for a bit, until I flipped on the nearby device setting and everything worked.

I also looked into the DNS settings under Network & Internet > Private DNS. Make sure your phone is using your local networks DNS server. Just make sure to understand the implications of changing this (especially when you disconnect from you’re home networks DNS). Also making sure your home DNS is not defaulting to your ISP DNS.

Two websites that help me sanity check myself

• Dnscheck.tools
• dnsleaktest.com

What brand of keyboard is that in the background, looks comfortable. Also interesting project.

This is great, so far I have only seen hardwired options, never seen someone do a expanded battery mod for their smart lock.

Battery eliminators are the way I hardwired my smart locks. You can find these on amazon in various battery sizes and combinations. Combining this with a Voltmeter Adjustable Boost Modul, doing some wiring, and then plugging all this into the wall means no battery changes every 3-4 months.

Here’s a video of something similar to my setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4GRCACR0sM

Here’s a good starting point, small list of a few items to do after flashing GOS.

What to Actually Do After Flashing:

https://franklinetech.com/first-24-hours-with-grapheneos/

Also look into private space, this allows you to run a “sub profile” in your main profile where you could install your already sandboxed Google play service as needed.

There are 3 main kinds of profiles:

1. User (including Owner)
2. Private Space
3. Work profile

Each have their own apps, app data, profile data including a home directory, their own disk encryption keys and their own VPN configuration.

Private Spaces and work profiles are similar to a user but nested inside of another user for actually usage them.

HAProxy seems like it’s always overlooked. I have been using it for years myself, pretty solid and just works.

If you run pfSense you can also use HAProxy with a GUI.

Nextcloud or immich

Upload your photo backups to your own server. You can also use a app like FolderSync to just upload your photos from your phone to your PC or a home NAS.

I have been slowly getting rid of my dependency on cloud services, things like contacts and calendar are a good way to slowly start.

The request numbers are on the far right, not on the left.

Who’s getting banged?