Right now I’m using a combination of Home Assistant on the server, GrapheneOS on the phones, a pihole set up as a DNS whitelist, and an app that escapes me from F-droid that locks other apps bases on screen time. Took me maybe 10min to find everything and 2 months to set up but that was mostly due to my sheer incompetence when it comes to anything that isn’t physical. Along the way I even got a jellyfin server going age appropriate music and video sectioned off for him. When he’s responsible enough for it I’ll be teaching him how to pirate his own content.

While I’m 100% on your side here and I make a point to champion the actual values of these anxiety riddled glass boxes, I do want to point out that we can do all that without them. My kid didn’t get modern electronics until he was competent with paper books, dictionary, and offline only tech.

That said, the added stance here is that we can have both. My kid’s phone is locked down to the point that he can’t even message contacts that I didn’t approve. It’s all operated in house from his phone, my phone, and the shit box excuse for a server I run. I have a curated plan for how he’ll earn his way up to full access and planned strategies for teaching him the safety and independence he needs. I know exactly fuck all about tech, can’t remember any commands for Linux, struggled to understand Docker, but still managed to make it happen. If I can pull it off, the only thing stopping literally anyone else is the choice not to do it.

Yeah, I may not be the most outwardly punk but I’ve never met a punk that doesn’t live and die by “be cool to each other and fuck the government”

Not by this thing, you’re not.

You know every day I find another thing about me that’s incredibly gay. If I were heterosexual I think I might be concerned…

Here I was hoping it was a normal race but Everyone’s sporting an absolute dump truck.

Ideally with sticks.

Got one as a gag gift at a party, it was called the “she-wee” and its basically a funnel and tube in a little case. Came in handy when I took a friend on a road trip.

Tangentially related, most women can actually learn to pee standing with practice. The common technique is to part the labia, then depress and pull up on the area between the clit and the urethra. This keeps the bits out if the way and angles the urethra to create a controlled arch. As a guy it’s useless information, but it lead me to learning I know more women that know how to than women who don’t.

I actually found it far easier to connect it through cloudflared tunnel service. Grab a cheap domain name through them and then just follow the guide on their website. Took me longer to type this message than it did to get running and I’ve managed to fail at setting up the Arr suite 3 times now despite it basically being copy paste.

I paid maybe 15 bucks total to have someone else doing all the hard work for the next 5 years and all I have to do is go to my website and log in. No VPN, no port forwarding, and it works on every platform.

This is something I’m really confused about myself. Like, of all the places to fanboy a country, why come to a place where everyone universally dislikes nationalism?

This doesn’t at all look like they’re minimizing either side. They very clearly stated that both sides are fucking Africa for their own profit. The emphasis in the question is because no one comes on Lemmy to talk about how great the west is. Rightly so, we’re a shithole with delusions of grandeur, but no one shows up to post unironic memes about the US being wringfully villainized in china.

Know anyone that’s into gaming? Modding old consoles is a great way to get into diagnosing board problems and fixing the crap PCBs in small electronics is fantastic for learning to solder. Two weeks ago I didn’t know shit about the eldrich slab of charms and runes inside electronics. Last week I successfully tested two power units for a playstation 4 and correctly diagnosed that mine has died due to APU overheating. Took about 2 hours, two videos, and a $15 continuity tester.

Unfortunately, mine’s dead in the water until I find someone who can reball the APU for less than the cost of a new system. In the mean time, I’m doing a tear down and mod on my Xbox 360.

Guy is already working on his own Epstein part two, he knows better than to be seen with the lips that sank the last ship.

I second this hard. The first pixel I picked up for this was “unlocked” version which meant it was locked harder than any other device could be. The second was DOA and it wasn’t until the 3rd that I got it to work.

So I’ll take one for the team and be the guy that breaks it to you. If you’re looking for privacy, no. If you’re looking to degoogle as a layman, also no. If you’re looking to degoogle as a fellow poor, even more no. If your phone isn’t listed on the options for Graphene then your just fucked unless you feel comfortable making a fork of an existing OS and doing 100% of the work yourself.

I myself was here asking the same question about 4 months ago and while plenty of people pointed me to maybe options, they all boiled down to "don’t do this unless it’s your passion project and you have a phone to spare. " Ultimately I managed to turn a few old projects around for parts and make enough to get some used pixel 8s off back market for an almost painless price so that I could get my family off the corpo list in one go.

If I come off as bitter or harsh, I apologize. I came into this with the hopes that I could make the leap and found that the leap involved doing literally everything I’ve avoided about the phone market since the galaxy 3 mini. Why the anticapitalist effort for free phones wouldn’t base their system on a reliable and dirt cheap product instead of the branded icon of the enemy is beyond me.

Fuck me, that’s an adventure and a half…

Spouse was at a dentist visit and her blood pressure was so high they threatened to call an ambulance. Has been that high off and on for weeks.

Take her to the doctor, doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced. This lady raw dogs migraines to avoid Ibuprofen.

First words out if doc’s mouth, “BP that high isn’t unheard of in women having their periods. Are you sure it’s not your time of the month?” Followed by, “well I’m sure you’re just nervous around doctors, it will go down when you get home.”

Honey mummy, bread mummy, jerky mummy, if we find ourselves a cheese mummy we’ve got a damn fine sandwich!

Selfcare is as varied and unique as the people that practice it.

Eventually we would finally kill the 1%…