It isn’t a magic solution, no, but you have a lot more control than crummy layer 3 firewall rules and endless lists.

The big players have far more data about what bad looks like. Either we can play whack a mole with outdated tools and techniques or get smart and learn to use what is available.

Self hosting doesn’t mean we go backward in terms of the sophistication and difficulty, it means embracing modern solutions.

In the dinosaur days, we had primitive tools, but so did the attackers. We cannot hope to self host with any measure of security if we bring piss to a shitfight.

Cooool, thanks!

I got some kasA devices on sale, they work fine. I dislike that I have to use their app for initial setup and when I rotate WiFi passwords. Will use them until they fail, then will switch to something else.

Give em to me!

I have a dozen or so, zero issues.

Having said that, I do prefer zwave to WiFi. Glad theyre starting to head in that direction. Just dont understand why zwave gear is always 20% more expensive.

Get a WAF. Sophos firewall is free if you want to diy. If not, use cloudflare.

Opening ports, logging, monitoring, nailing up allow listed IP addresses and dicking around with fail2ban is such a timesuck. None of that crap will stop something from exploiting a vulnerability.

Some things are worth farming out to a 3rd party. Plus, you can just point your DNS entry over and be mostly done. No more dynamic IP bs.

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I’m very well aware, but the apple folks tend to be a LOT more dogmatic and vocal. When people talk shit about android, nobody really cares. Do it to apple? Jfc.

I am pointing this out because the current mess will never change for the better until apple users stop supporting apple. No, you dont have a lot of choices, but stop signaling support for them. Get mad and demand better. Be vocal about THAT.

All the apple fans out down voting today…

FYI this may not be the time to take allegiance with them if you at all understand what is going on.

Not to defend it, but the first time I encountered the term was when BlackBerry released their Playbook tablet. It ran their bbos10 and they created an android emulator so you could run some android apps. The process of installing the apk into the emulator was called sideloading.

I miss BlackBerry is all I really wanted to say.

MOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM! THEY’RE MAKIN DIRTY JOKES AND I DON LIKE EM!!!

Stop that.

You just HAD to wait until the end, didn’t you?

I checked Walmart on Ohio and the most expensive one is $19 for 2.5 lbs of mixed mini chocolate bars.

To be clear, a 2.5 lb bag is pretty damn big. $.47 per oz.

In the photo shown, its the one with the green witch face.

I dunno, sounds like you might actually be pretty capable.

Maybe you just work on the next shitshow on your own. You might surprise yourself.

I kid, I am old enough to have grown up with those.

Well there is something you can do right now. If something else goes wrong, make him help you fix it.

I torture my sons by making them help me as I currently finish up a transmission on their car. One of them made a hole in the wall and I will show them how to make the patch, but they’re sanding it.

They have all been shown how to sweat copper, plunge a toilet and cable a drain.

It is odd that your dad knows how to do to do all this stuff, but doesn’t teach you. When I’m old and crusty, the last thing I want to do is fix everyone’s stuff. He’s just setting himself up for a lot of work in his golden years if he doesn’t.

Wow, thats wild, why would you charge a phone with a weird curly cable?

I’m pretty happy with how I’m adulting. I cook a bunch, I fix just about anything, I am a pretty solid home DIY person, good with plumbing, electrical, cromulent at basic carpentry and drywalling.

My money is OK, could be better, most of my relationships are healthy, I’m doing OK physically.

I read a lot of books, prioritized emotional health and growth, I like a lot of things, I’m pretty bad at the piano, but I try real hard.

I don’t know if I’m pro max but a lot of my friends ask for my advice.

Also, what is that strange curly cord in the picture.

That is by design.

With an actual computer, you have a lot more options in terms of how you can handle the content. They don’t own your PC (yet) but they do own the mobile market and the operating system entirely.

You don’t have any form of root/admin access on a mobile device of any type nor any other device (tv box, game console, tablet, etc). For the handful that have jailbroken or rooted their phones, many apps don’t work (by design of course). You can do it, but you’ll break a ton of stuff in the process. That’s enough to keep causals from doing it and leaves the tiny group of hardcore dorks that are willing to live with the complexities that are required.

I’m going to put on my tinfoil hat and say this is what keeps any real attempt at a Linux phone in the gutter. If people had a choice for their mobile operating system and the freedom to do what they want with it, the big tech companies would shit a brick. They’ve already removed the ability to block ads on mobile devices for the vast majority, they’re finally getting what they wanted (save the handful of Firefox users left).

Linux phones won’t be a thing until there is hardware for them. With apple/google phones, the manufacturers will not release the necessary software so that is needed for a 3rd party OS. Google and Apple will make sure that anyone who makes hardware for them are legally tied to keeping that software tightly closed. Even if someone did manage to reverse engineer it, it would be a herculean effort and would break as soon as a new release is out (or if one of the manufacturers “accidentally” released some exploit code for the reverse engineered drivers).

It’s an ugly world these greedy fucks have made for us.

Its vi. When I use it, I always fuck something up and get tangled up in knots. Best to just bail out and try again later.