Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.

Even if they do get the VBR encoding perfect, you’ll still get people on bad connections that will only have a buffer underrun when a dude shows up in a sparkly suit.

Yep. It’s your car to do with it what you want. The ADRs (Australian Design Rules) only apply at point of sale. Once it’s yours, it merely needs meet roadworthy requirements. As long as you keep a functioning speedo, wipers and lights, you can rip out every bit of electronics in the car.

That’s like, a million people’s wages. Absurd.

The longest outage I’ve had in a decade is when my primary SSD died a 2 months ago and I had to reinstall using config backups. It was down for around a day.

I’ve thrown a UPS on it and flown overseas for a week or two. It’s basically just email for me and the kids.

I’ve had longer outages on hosted services, TBH.

I host my own mail. When it’s down, the mail just gets delivered after I get online again. Almost all mail servers are configured to retry over a period of several days before giving up.

Once my health insurer sent me mail by post to tell me that my mail server was down. That was kinda funny.

TightVNC. Use TightVNC.

I did have LUKS and a USB flash drive with a key to be inserted on boot. It was definitely difficult and caused performance issues. It was particularly difficult to add/remove drives from the array. These days I only encrypt my off-site backups that sit at the office where my coworkers potentially have physical access.

There have been recent advancements in TPM so disk encryption is easier to maintain and doesn’t affect performance. I’ll need to investigate this one day. My server/NAS is a 4th-gen i5, so it may not support the functions I would need. Full disk encryption will land in Ubuntu soon. I’m hanging out for that.

I can vouch for this. I run completely unrooted GrapheneOS and no app has ever failed a safetynet test. Banking apps and Pokemon Go work just fine.

I’ve never had issues with LineageOS either, but this is before the hardware attestation days.

I personally would flick through the OpenWRT supported devices and pick the best supported device with 802.11ax.

Haha that’s what I was poking at. You won’t find it on tap in an Australian pub. I don’t even see it in bottle shops.

I don’t think Fosters is associated with a country. Maybe Japan or England.

My priorities:

1. Blocking ads and protecting privacy.

2. Being able to accomplish the task on my phone.

Literally every phone has its priorities out of whack and I have to fix it myself.

Everything exposed except NFS, CUPS and Samba. They absolutely cannot be exposed.

Like, even my DNS server is public because I use DoT for AdBlock on my phone.

Nextcloud, IMAP, SMTP, Plex, SSH, NTP, WordPress, ZoneMinder are all public facing (and mostly passworded).

A fun note: All of it is dual-stacked except SSH. Fail2Ban comparatively picks up almost zero activity on IPv6.

I’ve got a 6a and I ended up rolling my own DoT server so that it would adblock, but also resolve to servers in my own country.

I also moved to GrapheneOS. The only Google stuff that broke was Google Wallet’s tap payment thing. Reportedly even Android Auto is supported now.

Oh - my kid just got a Motorola G84. It was a very cheap handset for 12GB RAM and no ads so far. Very close to stock Android too.

Testdisk and photorec? It’s saved me heaps of times.

I’m digging it. It reminds of reddit when it was good, which was like digg when it was good, which was like /b/ when… wait, /b/ was never good.

I can handle the Linux fanboys because it’s been my daily driver OS since 2003.

I do miss the driversity of topics. Yeah, I’m mostly about my computers and cars, but I like maintaining a surface knowledge of pretty much everything.

Gmail works with it.

But Gmail could technically pump the same ads over IMAP if they wanted to.

I’m an app developer. My company makes an iOS version, and it’s damn near impossible to deal with Apple’s shit.

Imagine buying a piece of hardware and actually owning it.