Author says "one-time server setup + storage" but there are a few moving parts and always updates to handle so I'm sceptical this could be truly called 'one time' (or any selfhosting). Time will tell I guess. I enjoyed the article though and gave me food for thought.

Fdroid are:

appealing to regulators and competition authorities to scrutinize Google's proposals, and for developers and users to put pressure on politicians.

So I think these are preferred avenues of action right now.

A Short Hike. Lead character is called Claire. No combat, no death, no resets. Just exploring, puzzles and story.

On an unrelated note, Google’s blog post also is soliciting feedback from the public on these changes.

"Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions about the verification requirements."

https://goo.gle/Android-verification-feedback

'Last year, we asked the public for their views on smart products in a series of workshops. People shared concerns that products collect too much personal information, and said that they feel powerless to control how their data is used and shared'

Thank you to these people!

It's not all his fault - the script and plot were dire. Nobody came out of this looking good except for the music, visuals, Jeff Bridges and Depeche Mode.

I'll mention this as no one has yet but you can be your own CA. Tools like mkcert make it easy

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

This is potentially more hassle (than using public DNS) as you have to get your CA certs onto every device. However it may be suitable depending on the situation.

..could it be your phone's storage is failing then?

UK government has been taken over by WhatsApp and Twitter - our official inquiries have to beg for access to WhatsApp to see what's going on in gov. Love to see them switch - they could have more control of data retention and promote innovation.

...it allows users to configure their Ollama server or API key for OpenAI once, and then create many different agents using different models or configuration underneath...we’re also introducing a new integration, OpenRouter, which is a unified LLM interface giving access to over 400 extra LLM models.

I'm not familiar with these but sounds like they are leaving some choice to the admin

I don't see anyone talking about the human side so I'll ask - what is the appetite for change? I can see you yourself are motivated and that's great. How do you feel the attitude is with the others there? Migrating a company that's been working analogue for decades sounds like a big change programme regardless of the tech choices you ultimately make. This sounds like process change as well as technology change and that requires using another set of skills to wrangle the people.

I would advise to pick a small area first that's causing the most pain but also very amenable to common tech most people are already familiar with and is only a small change to existing processes. Get an early visible success.

The photo management might be a good start as we all are used to these apps on our phones and the tech is mature and easy to find in FOSS.

Everyone loves Immich though it has some big warnings on its github page about its own maturity. Maybe something simpler: just file/photo synching and a shared gallery? It can always be upgraded in future. Syncthing is solid, some kind of NAS and one of the older/mature galleries running on top. Get your backup process nailed down and run a real recovery process before too many photos are at stake.

Anyway it sounds exciting and kudos to you for looking to FOSS. Good luck!

Yes it's not too much bother to set this up, it can be put into ansible and once working I've not had to touch it again. Here's another dracut tool using dropbear that works well and has decent instructions on setup: dracut-crypt-ssh

The crypt-ssh dracut module allows remote unlocking of systems with full disk encryption via ssh

I only saw Thin Red Line once and hated it. Stuffed with pointless cameos, an indulgent mess it never gets going, never arrives anywhere. This critic summed it up for me:

The heart-piercing moments that punctuate its rambling are glimpses of what a tighter film might have been

Others rate it highly so its seems very much a matter of individual taste.

There is some distribution of effort/expertise at least:

When an individual researcher or an organization discovers a new bug in some product, a CVE program partner — there are currently a few hundred across 40 countries — is asked to assess the vulnerability report and assign a unique CVE identifier for the flaw if and as necessary.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

Never had this with ZigBee, one hub lots of different devices. Had to switch hub to USB2 at beginning to reduce interference but after that smooth sailing.

Messages are only sent when both online though, thet's the bigger difference (unless using Briar Mailbox). Also it can send over wifi and bluetooth without internet connection i.e. no other devices involved.

I have these:

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Tuya_WSD500A.html

...use 2xaaa batteries. Accurate and reliable, got a bunch around the place.

10Gb is not a big file relatively speaking - both ext4 and btrfs (for example) can handle 16TiB and larger. If this was your only reason for choosing exFAT then you can definately migrate.

I moved to virt manager from boxes as I it let me down too many times with bugs. VMs would not restart and snapshots would fail to launch.

These results may depend on your region, looks like you are both seeing different prices