Probably better to use them for their screen, firewalled off from everything except whatever is providing a dashboard or info display (e.g., homeassistant).
Jason2357
joined 2 years ago
Anti-capitalism-in-theory, but pro capitalism-in-practice.
Your perspective aligns with a lot of self-hoisters who run things on rpi’s and such, but not the “home labbers”. Also, see the pubnix, tildeverse, smol web, indie web, and to some extent the retro computing communities. You are definitely not alone!
“Vigilance” never worked against measles. It looks like a flu or even a cold in a lot of people. Vaccines worked
Unless a sentence like this uses the word “all” you should default to “some” as the implied qualifier. As in, not “all six future earners are in survival mode, but “some six figure earners are in survival mode.” Even that would have been shocking years ago, but nowadays, a family with a single earner bringing in 100,000 can very much be struggling to make ends meet in a high COL city.
I have never heard of an email provider that will hold your address for you forever, paid or free. This post makes no sense.
Restic is great, and the de-duplication between snapshots is amazingly good. Same content in different files (e.g. tar files of linux systems) take very little space like magic). Backrest is a nice web frontend for it.
Note that you should use some retention features of your provider to manage the risk of ransomware deleting your backups.
I think the strategy used the world-over, is to surveil everyone and build network graphs. You may work extremely hard to secure your device and communications, but the algorithms will build up a dossier on you based on all of the people you associate with who are less capable or motivated. Machine learning is insanely good at filling in missing data in an information rich dataset.
That's not the biggest disadvantage "if used properly." Any account you have should get a passkey on every device you own. Each device has it's own passkey system. If you have an iPhone, yeah, you get an apple passkey, but then if you have a windows laptop, you have a microsoft passkey, a FLOSS system will have it's own, and so on. You are already on whatever system would contain the passkey and can easily add different ones each time you get a new device.
The biggest issue is that most people use a small number of devices (including many who use 1). Passkeys work best if you have many devices, so if you lose one, you just use another to access your services. If you have 1, you need to use recovery codes (and people don't save them).
How many good passwords can you memorize? I can maintain 2-3 in my head long term, especially if only used rarely, and you can be phished if you are typing it in. Not tenable for online accounts. The only real comparison with security parity is a password manager + 2fa generated on-device, compared with passkeys. In both cases, you have "strong" password, no re-use, resiliency to fishing, and requires both "something you know and something you have." I think a password manager is slightly more usable, but I'm not convinced either is a "good" experience yet.
Except, if you chose the wrong 1 of that 10 and your company is the only one down for a day, you get fire-bombed. If "TEH INTERNETS ARE DOWN" and your website is down for a day, no one even calls you.