My only issue is with banking apps and our national ID app which is very useful. I know some work, but I haven’t seen all that I have listed, so I would have to be the guinea pig :) I actually have an older Pixel phone with a shattered screen, I was planning to have it repaired, so I guess that’s where I can test GrapheneOS safely.
Great idea! However, something bothers me. From F-Droid:
This app relies on catbox.moe to upload images and Google, Bing, Yandex, TinyEye, Perplexcity and ChatGPT for search.
I am not familiar with that service, so I went to the website and looked at FAQ:
How long does Catbox keep files for?
Forever. If you don’t want your file to stick around until the heat death of the universe, use Litterbox.
Are you (F)(L)OSS?
no.
Not sure what it is exactly but having my uploaded files stored in some obscure database until the heat death of the universe does not fill me with trust.
I have a Pixel phone and used the screen scanning tech (forgot how it’s called, but it’s the same feature, I believe) for OCR to copy the WiFi password from a photo of the sticker that’s on the router and of course it immediately sent that password to Google and run the search, ugh. I don’t want to send my WiFi password to some website I never even heard about, either.
Can you explain how it works?
People learn and change. Always better late than never.
I migrated from the US servers to the EU servers and while looking through my settings I noticed that my renewal was $19.80 instead of $12 last year. At first I thought that the EU servers are much more expensive and was upset that support didn’t tell me before migration, but it turns out that’s just the new price.
May I ask which Hetzner VPS did you choose? I wonder if the Cost-Optimized ones are sufficient. I would be using it with max 2 users, same as you.
If I go with the VPS option I’d like to host Immich instead. But it seems to be hungry for memory, especially with the ML features enabled.
I really don’t understand this “Nextcloud does too much” rhetoric, the standard bare metal installation is basically just Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts
That’s just my impression based on their website, it looks like a business suite, but I’m probably looking at it wrong. Thank you, the part about the database is important.
A bonus question regarding the 3-2-1 backup strategy. If my VPS is in Germany, but I spin up a Storage Box in Finland, that falls within the boundaries of “off-site backup”, even if both are managed by Hetzner. What do you think? It’s just easiest to setup, I guess. Otherwise I need another cloud provider (perhaps some S3 object storage).
I was looking at this self-hosting guide and scratching my head in confusion. They say $80 nets you a 4TB HDD. Meanwhile, in my country that costs more like $220+. Yes, for an HDD, not SSD (that would be more like way over $500). I see the guide has been updated this year, so either the US lives in another world or nobody has updated the pricing.
If you’re that paranoid you can host it yourself.
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readme-ov-file
https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/
It’s open source.
Voyager is free.
I meant that I can buy one of those Radeons dedicated to AI work, like the ASRock Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator 32GB GDDR6. If I need to.
Currently my Ryzen iGPU is all I need, because all I need is to see the graphical desktop environment on my screen ;) It does the job well.
I use Claude Code as well and I am slightly concerned with that ID verification news, even more so because of the technology partner that they chose.
Say I have a GPU with 32GB VRAM and I am on Linux, what local LLM would be good for coding?
Currently I just have an iGPU ;) but that’s always an option, albeit a very expensive one.
Weird, my pet said the same. Is your password also ************* ?
As for passwords, well, I wont talk about that. It’s not good but still not worst practices at least.
Paper notebook? ;)
My Bitwarden and Proton Pass also require Yubikey to be present when logging in on a new device.
By “same platform” do you mean keeping them in the same app or the same system (e.g., my Android smartphone)? I used to use Authy, but after I bought the paid subscription for Bitwarden I moved my TOTP codes there (and later to Proton Pass) because it was so convenient.
Thanks for telling me about Betterbird. I see I can run it at the same time as Thunderbird which naturally fits my workflow described above 😅
Not sure if this is helpful or still too technical, but take a look: https://selfhosting.sh/foundations/getting-started/