Not really, they’ve all had telemetry for probably 20 years.

The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn’t saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)

Jeep/Chrysler have always been banned from my life.

Garbage. Worse than any other American car company. They even managed to screw up cars made for them by Mitsubishi.

Which is why adding Tailscale to this KVM is a killer solution

Excellent, thanks for the link!

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you’ve got a killer remote support solution.

Weird people would downvote this. I usually don’t care (still don’t, lol) but someone downvoted the idea of installing a mesh VPN on this KVM, yet it’s already been done.

Immich is part of FUTO now? Great, congrats!

I look forward to implementing it on my new home box.

Syncthing-Fork has been out for years and has more options too

Right.

Because databases are never “hacked” and exfiltrated.

(By hacked, I mean most of the time it’s social engineering.)

And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

“It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.

Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?

This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.

Add on to that, their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

Some people like to suffer.

I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.

Microsoft published that script to Github.

Calling it piracy to use their openly published script is… I don’t know, incorrect?

And being a Google app, which means it can access everything.

I’d sooner use a regular SMS app, and not reward their behaviour. Which is what I do. You want to use garbage like SMS or RCS? Then you suffer the issues that come with SMS.

What’s infuriating, the stock photo of people touching a whale, which I seriously doubt is happening in Dallas?

Capacity like that is the only reason I could think of.

Why 3.5" drive? (Just curious).

I’ve found prices aren’t necessarily any better at that size.

For anyone who seems uninterested, ask if they’d like to be arrested for murder simply because they biked past a place every day.

For anyone looking for great talking points about this issue, I highly recommend “Taking Control of Your Personal Data” by prof. Jennifer Golbeck, published by The Teaching Company, ISBN:978-1629978390, likely available at your local library as a DVD or streaming.

Ah, yes, the ends justify the means, Dr. Mengele

I could possibly see it being required by a covenant community/HOA, but code? That seems a bit out there.