I have pfSense as my firewall, running OpenVPN and I just connect when I need to.

Phone’s running trackercontrol all the time to block stuff and I’ve disabled most of google on it, so I’m not too concerned whilst I’m out and about… most apps I use are local-data anyway, ie CoMaps not google maps, etc… so I’m using ~1GB/month.

Syncthing only syncs on known wifi, so when I’m home it updates with a NAS and 2 laptops (and photos with 2 tablets), so there’s always something it’s syncing with.

This is a really good point.

Remember that Microsoft has patch Tuesday… so… it’s now just normal mundane patching. No sensationalism, no logos, no catchy names.

But we don’t know what’s going on in there.

Linux is now getting more news because more people are hammering it with AI, but we should hear that each item is being fixed and / or worked around with open discussions.

Well… if all the AI companies are making massive losses, might as well take some of their money from them and help them along.

And + pfBlockerNG

To help with the overwhelm, If you scanned these important documents then I’m presuming you still have the (paper?) originals?

Treat them as your source of truth and work with them first - some might have superceeded your backups anyway.

Then, as others have said, follow the 3-2-1 principle, but keep one of the backups as plain and simple files (.pdf I presume)

If you lock the files in an app, you’re making it even more difficult to restore them later.

Personally, I put my files (ie. .pdf, .jpg, etc) in encrypted online file storage (Hetzner) and I made sure I keep instructions elsewhere on how to get them back again (in case I’m… not able to)

Keep it simple

I expect OP’s issue came after a recent kernel upgrade

Have a look on the Arch Linux wiki around udev and event debugging (evdev?)

Depending on whether you’re suspending to RAM or disk will affect the time it takes - and of course, how much stuff it has to suspend.

If you’re in the middle of a resource intensive task (which could just be watching a video… all depends…), then whatever is running needs to stop, and possibly has a full buffer which needs processing as suspend could be to the swap file / partition, which may need emptying first.

But, it should all work these days.

If you’re not wanting to customise too much, the Frtizbox equipment is good.

Plenty headroom for normal use.

However if you have 6 people all streaming 4k netflix and need 1mSec ping for gaming over a 10Gb link, you’ll probably need to build something.

Top Tip: open another terminal and kill the task from there

( /s )

Just echo text to create a new file or use sed and awk to edit an existing file.

In reality, I use nano for edits and vimdiff for comparing files (usually a .pacnew after an update on a headless device)

Or the restores… 😉

In theory, someone could fork that and vibe code the missing bits.

For $15/month * X users, that could even pay for a dev to do it properly

What is a round-robin teams meeting anyway? Is that a 1:1 with each member of the team?

Hmmm.

I have an issue with my media PC where if it’s turned on before the HDMI connected TV, then we can’t see the display… I wonder if this will fix that issue too by pretending the TV is always connected…

I listen to a LOT of music - basically most of the day when I’m not on a call.

I don’t follow the mainstream so never had a spotify account, and am really listening either to radio-browser.info or a few channels on youtube that I sponsor, which link to the artists on bandcamp, where I buy the music I like.

To your point on bandwidth, I try to store music at the highest quality I can get, but then transcode to players.

I did try mp3fs to live transcode files to my phone in the past, but didn’t use it much in the end.

I’ve torrented some music in the past, but TBH, I find it in different places easier nowadays.

I used to find some interesting stuff with Napalm FTP indexer - but be very careful with direct connections to random FTP servers.

Is this a specific PC, or a general question?

All spyware needs to get the info to the spy somehow, so as others have said, it’s probably best to watch the network traffic.

But also - not so much for home, more for an office - look out for keyloggers and weird physical devices attached to the PC, they can be sending data via other methods.

And prevention is better than cure, get a good antimalware installed - and perhaps something which only allows known good (allow listing), rather than blocking known bad (block listing).

And reading the blog, I’m happy to read that it’s configurable, not mandatory… nice… like the Linux ecosystem should be

Interesting, I thought that the Ryzens were better than Intel’s offerings?

What were the issues?

So, no weird firmware issues with Framework, like Tuxedo had?

Have you considered any integration with Home Assistant?

I’m tracking my family for automations when they arrive / leave home, so the GPS apps can’t send to 2 different webhooks at the same time.

Either HA could get data from your database, or (preferably for latency of automations) HA passes it’s data on to your database.

Thoughts?

Edit: ah… ok… found your notes on the main website, my bad not reading that first

Thanks for the background on the tiles.

Yeah, from my PoV, I’d like to use the OSM data that’s already on my phone (from other OSM based apps), but I understand your point.

So, where’s your VPS? In EU?

FYI: Got the app installed, followed the instructions (which refers to a Home Assistant template that doesn’t exist on the app?), modified the default custom template with tid set to an identifier and … I appear to be at home 🙂

Thank you