I dunno, all my younger family and their friends are neck deep in the shit, and aren't interested in hearing my "conspiracy theories"...despite them being front page news every day (all the ransomware, hacks, etc).
BearOfaTime
joined 1 year ago
Be the change you want to see.
Since people won't (for example) switch to privacy-respecting comm apps just because I ask them too, I'm building my own self-hosted box that I can duplicate for my family and friends.
My goal is to provide them with a single box solution for DNS filtering (PiHole), media server (including auto disc conversion and sharing between boxes), local backup (which will replicate encrypted backups to the other boxes similar to what Crashplan Personal did), phone backup and management (MDM and file management from PC), image and file sharing (something like Facebook for family only), instant messaging (most likely XMPP), etc, etc.
Yes, it's a pretty bold plan, but my family and friends are tech illiterate, so if I want to see an improvement in privacy for myself and them, it's on me to do it, and make it attractive for them.
And this post is a false dichotomy.
Just because TikTok is being targeted right now, doesn't mean other foreign services are being ignored.
Because what you wrote is unnecessarily convoluted, circular and overly complex.
Going right along with that is your sophist projection of someone "complaining". Nowhere was there a complaint. That was nothing more than an argumentation tactic by you: sophistry.
They said that they try to reserve their spots for people who specifically fall short of other places.
Sounds like bias.
They are crazy fast on their element.
Magisk is the root tool to use today.
Look for it on XDA.
Basic procedure:
Extract boot image from rom or phone
Install Magisk to phone.
Use magisk to patch boot image
Copy boot image to PC
Use PC to flash boot image to phone.
Are those seven separate physical drives?
A reset shouldn't affect them, but if you want to be sure, first you should have backups, like with a cloud provider. For example, my data is replicated in 3 places at home (to protect against drive failure and me being a dumbass), and one online backup.
If it were me, I'd make sure I had a backup, then I'd disconnect those drives just to be sure. Software can't delete a drive that's not connected.
Then I'd do the reset, setup the machine, and then reconnect the drives.
Good point about platform agnostic remote for management stuff. VNC is ideal for this.
And systems like Proxmox use a web GUI for most stuff, it's a touch slow but I think that's mostly just waiting for the system to finish the actual changes I make, and not the UI.
My own contradiction: I feel pretty cynical about it, and yet I'm working on my own solutions for my family and friends. Part of me thinks it's pointless, but I refuse to give in completely.
I already try to use better comms, minimize the data my phone shares (setting up a de-googled pixel now), and have always avoided most social media (never been on FB/Twitter, etc, as in never even gone to the websites).