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  • There is also an aftermarket solution, if you are not on gos, three name is duress on droid.

    If you still want the comfort to open your phone via biometrics plus disable biometrics in emergencies there is private lock (fdroid). It will engage when the phone is shaken, e.g. a thief grabs it from your hand while you are typing, or you shake so nobody can force you to open it by fingerprint. The device will be locked and biometrics disabled until you unlock it again. There is also a recently updated app on fdroid with the same features, but it was not as reliable for me so I went back to using private lock.

  • Openwrt generally works great on x64 PCs. Thiss machine will most likely be more beefy than your home router and could become your main firewall. It can handle adblocking and vpn client for all PCs on the network as well or whatever your need, as openwrt can do many nice things no commercial router can do out of the box. Install openwrt on your home router as well and use that as access point (connected via cable). You will improve your wifi signal as well. If your machine does not come with rj45 lan ports, install usb3 to rj45 adapters to the usb3.0 ports. They will give you the full 1000 mbit speeds.

  • You need to change the nginx config (for the website you will be hosting your services at. /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourdomain.com

    You can reroute all http requests to https in that config.

    Watch a video on how nginx works and how to set it up, and then look for example nginx configs for your services. It's a pretty standard setting nowadays so the syntax should be easy to find.

    I think nginx can be setup to work locally only, but do you even need it for that? It's primary use is to proxy http requests to the different websites running on your server, enable https via letsencryt and so on, I think.

  • 100% Opnsense. I used to run pfsense for a couple of years but there project was bought by a for profit. Enshitification ensued. They still released their code as per open source licence, but it was not up to closer inspection as it could no longer be used to built the distro from source. They banned perfectly fine hardware from using pfsense as it could not provide hardware acceleration for open-vpn (Aes-ni). The fork opnsense is to be preferred.

  • Sure you can play doom 1 and 2 campaigns in co-op. No need for modding. You don't even need a network card. Just buy a cable to connect both serial-ports on the PCs.

    That was my first co-op experience and it still one of the best I've ever had.

  • If you are looking for a future proof, snooping free and secure solution for home routers, there is most likely no way around installing open source firmware like openwrt. I would just pick a device with good openwrt support, some ubiquity models have that, if I remember correctly. But there are many alternatives by different manufacturers. I would just chose one with good hardware specs in your price range, install openwrt and call it a day.

  • You can compare pros and cons of both messengers here: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

    Post quantum encryption will probably be an issue in a couple of years and I think there will be solutions then in many messengers.

    I am not sure what you mean by persistent user ids. How much would it matter if you run your own server line I so with xmpp?

  • I have a setup of about 250 mb worth of blocklists on the home router (openwrt). The adblocker generates a statistic. Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that's my personal traffic saved every day. On mobile your can block traffic systemwide too, so not only your browser but also app based adds.

    On android just go to settings -- network -- private dns and chose one provided by mullvad for example:

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    On ios:

    https://adityarajsingh.com/dns-over-https-ios/

  • Dawn sounds very interesting. It seems to need 802.11k and 802.11v on all AP-nodes, I am not sure they are supported by my hardware though. I've never heard of those standards, so it seems unlikely.

    I also just read about a user complaining about crashes related to dawn. Does it run stable and does it also switch to the 5ghz band or does it seem to prefer 2,4ghz, as another user noted three years ago.

  • If you don't like flatpak there is also firejail which you can run to isolate browsers or many other programmes.

    There is also a programme to run your browser from ram and commit changes to disk when it closes, which I've used for a year or so and can recommend. I have to look up the name later at home, if you are interested.

    Browsers write to disk every couple odd seconds per default settings (I think up to 20gb a day), which eats away on an ssds life cycle. in Firefox this can be changed, but the in ram option makes it smappier as well as a benefit.

  • I am not much into art, but something I read in a Stephen King novel about a painter always resonated with me: You are not selling the picture but the story behind the picture. Whoever is interested in your picture, if you can tell them an inspiring tale about the circumstances it was created in your chance of a sale will increase manifold. Of course this is from a storytellers point out view so you can assume an emphasis on stories, but it kind of makes sense: If you show someone a picture you bought they might appreciate for the arts sake alone, but a good story is a bonus that will make this exact picture stand out. So if you wanna sell pictures, have a good story to tell about each.

  • For me, it's probably Richard Burns Rallye. Some times just everything seems to fall into place as you flow through a stage and the weight of the car transfers just right from one corner to the next. Also the boss fights especially in the souls series...

  • Hmm, it's pretty much the same as 15 years ago if you stay away from the smallest common denominator popular AAA games.

    I've started playing squad again after my last try in 2020. I just favourited a couple of low ping well populated servers and have been playing on the same three or four that are working well.

    War of rights only has around 150 players in the evening on public servers and they all enter the same one as this game is meant to be played in large squads as well.

    Both games are great fun.

  • You have clearly never driven any of those. I s working at a car rental in the early oughts, when these came out. Still one of the most pitiful cars I've ever driven. On par only with three C 300 I think. My god these Chrysler's just hate corners.

  • The Mk II lost all the charm of the original in my opinion. I think there is nothing cooler than going on a road trip with three people in the front (like in a transporter). To have that in a compact car would be a huge selling point for me. Who really cares about looks -- cars are for utility in the first place imho.

    I think old American cars had a couch instead of a front seat, so you would be able to fit an entire family (or one average sized American). How cool was that?