Terramaster F6-424. Most of the non-Synology NASes let you install whatever OS you want (but, don't provide any support other than "here's how you install it"). Unraid, TrueNAS Scale, and Open Media Vault are popular OS choices.

You can get two (lightly) used Model Ys with money left over for that price, or a lightly used Model Y and a slightly older, lightly used F150 as a backup car for when you need a truck and/or need to be off charging infra (e.x. towing a boat or RV long-range).

Don't get the value proposition at all.

Or, like, an actual truck.

Right. If you want to go EV for your daily driver, you can buy a myriad of good choices (including from Tesla) *AND* a whole actual gas truck (say an F150 or a Taco) for what they are asking for this thing.

It’s too bad there’s not like... Uber Truck. If you need a truck only say, every few months, you’ll never come out ahead by owning a separate vehicle for that, but the overhead of renting a truck via traditional means is really a disincentive to doing so.

Very afraid we will get to the point where new TVs will refuse to boot and let you use external inputs unless they have network connection.

I’ll live with watching Plex on my phone before I buy a TV like that.

You mean on Apple's/Goole's/Samsung's phone that you're renting, right?

Nothing stops you from opening signal in a bar and having a guy sitting behind you from the KGB reading the texts. Or say, adding a rando to the group. In their context, that means it’s unsecure.

The cryptography of Signal is not the issue.

Think of the risk of getting caught in gun violence like the risk of mass stabbings or vehicles being driven into crowds. It can and has happened, but the odds are staggeringly low.

Most gun violence is between people who are known to each other (gangs, suicide, domestic violence). As a random person, you are very unlikely to have problems.

Exactly the same experience. My AP Physics teacher in high school was incredibly better than university.

UT is research focused. Depending on the department, they make the professors teach classes, which is often not aligned with their interests at all. Sometimes I think they are actively trying for bad reviews from students to incentivize the university from making them take on course load.

The cloud is just someone else’s computer. If you really, really care about privacy, self host.

That works for nerds like us. But my sister or my non tech friends don't have knowledge to self host. It is like asking a person to do a surgery on themselves when they don't have medical knowledge. E2E services are very crucial for such normal people.

How long do you think for governments to make it illegal to self host or backdoor Linux builds? They have already went too far by just asking backdoor to data of every single person on the planet. We should oppose such unethical laws rather than finding workarounds.

> How long do you think for governments to make it illegal to self host or backdoor Linux builds?

Probably never, it won't be worth the trouble because it's always going to be a fringe thing for the reasons you say :). One can hope anyways.

Also, if the government decides I'm a baddie, they can always just show probable cause to a judge and come physically get my hardware, so they have a more traditional path there to handle weirdos like me already :).

FWIW, I agree completely strong encryption in SAAS is necessary for privacy. But pragmatically, there's little hope laws like this won't eventually take root in more places. So the statement stands irregardless of the challenges: the cloud is just someone else's computer.

One final note: I don't think E2E means what most people think it means unfortunately - lots of companies imply that you're the only one with access to the encryption keys when E2E is on, but if you read the fine print, it often really just says is the data is encrypted in flight, not what the policy is for protecting the data on the other "end."

This is the awesome thing about ADP - they spell out the full policy in glorious detail.

For those to whom that sounds scary: buy a regular consumer NAS. They run quite a few applications nowadays (besides being file storage as a base feature) and are meant to be setuppable by an average person

Behind the scenes, it'd probably decrypt it locally piece-by-piece with the key in the Secure Enclave, and then reencrypt it with a new key that Apple has a copy of when you disable ADP.

I just use tiered notifications. Messaging apps or things I should respond to immediately have push notifications on (interrupts). Things I don’t need to reply to urgently like email only have badge icons (red counter) (so, polled). I go zero inbox and clean until the badges are all gone at least once a day. Most apps have notifications disabled.

I really can’t stand any social media stuff giving notifications. It should never ever rise to “interrupt” priority. For me.