Lka1988

Ahh, gotcha.

My wife and I were on Life360 for a few years, until we decided to drop it because of the data collection and selling that to insurance.

Turns out Home Assistant can do this natively, that is alerting when someone leaves/arrives at a predefined zone. The recent map update really helps. My wife likes it because she gets automatically notified when I’m on my way home from work; she uses that to time dinner for when I walk in the door.

Out of curiosity - as someone who already ditched life360 - what’s keeping you on it?

Pixel 9 Pro XL here, bought it the day it released. Rooted on Day 0 and ran that way until last week when I decided to install Graphene OS. I have no reason to “upgrade”. I also never use wireless charging, so that isn’t a factor in my purchases, but if you’re curious - the 9 Pro can do 23W wireless charging.

FYI - The 9 Pro devices have a periscopic zoom lens.

I recently upgraded my gaming pc from Bookworm to Trixie. It was fairly painless. Had to fiddle with some third party repos, but I anticipated that and read up on them beforehand.

I thoroughly enjoyed that teardown of Trump…'s phone.

Until Tailscale IPOs and starts locking the clients down, like BitWarden is doing right now.

Eweka is ~9 Euros a month:

Not sure where you got pricing for NZBGeek, it’s $12 a year:

According to my bank account:

Eweka runs about $16 USD a month (I also pay for the VPN), and NZBGeek runs about $12 USD a year.

Usenet is still very much a thing.

I use Eweka.nl (Usenet access) and NZBGeek (indexer). Works well.

I find this blurb on Pixels interesting:

OTAConfigNoZeroTouchPrebuilt is an app on Pixels that checks for a carrier lock. When a Pixel first connects to the internet, this system app will immediately check if the device is carrier locked. If it’s not or is locked to a carrier that doesn’t restrict unlocking, it will retrieve a token from Google’s servers which will allow bootloader unlocks. If the token cannot be received, then the bootloader cannot be unlocked. This means if Google’s servers ever go down, you will not be able to unlock your Pixel’s bootloader, as it won’t have the token.

Mostly because unlocking the bootloader and rooting my Pixel 9 Pro was the very first thing I did to it before installing my SIM card (yes, I still use a physical one). I also skipped the wifi setup.

Edit: in all seriousness, this is a handy list.

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Nice

Main services:

• Home Assistant
• Immich
• Pi-Hole (3x, to avoid killing internet if one goes down for whatever reason)
• Plex/JF/*arr stack
• Nextcloud
• Syncthing
• Planka (kanban for keeping track of all my various projects around the house)
• LubeLogger
• Joplin (OneNote replacement)
• Kasm (remote management)
• Mesh Central (local management)
• BeamMP (BeamNG.Drive multiplayer server)
• Crafty (Minecraft server)
• Traccar (location tracking)
• NPM

Infrastructure supporting the above:

• Mac Mini 2014 | some 4th gen i5 | 16GB RAM | 8TB RAID5+1 (OMV NAS)
• Lenovo M710q Tiny | i7-7700T | 8GB RAM (Home Assistant)
• Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF | i7-7700 | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• HP Elitedesk Mini G3 | i7-7700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• HP Elitedesk Mini G4 | i7-8700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• 4x Docker VMs (managed by Dockge)
• 22x active Docker compose stacks
• 5x inactive Docker stacks (testing/tinkering shit)
• 3x not-Docker VMs
• 7x LXCs
• Unifi UDM (the OG trash can model)
• Unifi U7 AP Lite
• 3x Netgear GS308E switches (1x for house distribution, 1x for game consoles, 1x for servers)
• 1x Netgear GS305E switch (for my own PC + U7 AP)

Lmao there it is

Downvoters: You all know just as well as I do that this was no “accident”. Private equity always pulls this shit. Learn how to recognize patterns.