The little red flag thing is kind of cool.

I don’t have any bulbs from them, but I did just recently get a smart plug from third reality. And so far I like it, although I’ve only had it a couple of days.

That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.

That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.

Edit: Not having those is basically an immunization against crappy apps that want to steal your data and mine you for profit.

GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.

I intend to go with Reolink. The recorder can support up to 8 cameras per recorder and it publishes an RTSP stream. The only downside appears as though you need the app to set it up originally, but I don’t think it requires any kind of cloud account from everything I can tell, which was my biggest requirement, but I think it is Chinese.

Please keep in mind that this is after tax incentives. So let’s just assume the tax incentives are zero and call it 27,000 just to be on the safe side.

Oh, your computer is just a baby. I’m running a third generation Intel Core i7 in my laptop running Linux Mint. LOL.

As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.

Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome

This was an interesting read. Also, if you’re willing to put up with some sacrifices, disabling Google Play services on your Android phone, or installing Lineage OS without Google services at all, will make your phone both run faster and have way better battery life. As an example, I own the Oneplus Nord N20 5G, and when I pulled it out of the box, it was super laggy and awful. And by installing Lineage OS on it with no Google Play services, it works fabulous.

Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know

I do believe it does have a desktop client.

Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy

True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.

Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.

Hmmm. Good point. I dont really see a way around that one though.

If the living room has smart lights you could turn them to red if a person was detected at midnight

Thats true.

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