BearOfaTime

Circling back around, I do feel like not all hope is currently lost.

My own contradiction: I feel pretty cynical about it, and yet I'm working on my own solutions for my family and friends. Part of me thinks it's pointless, but I refuse to give in completely.

I already try to use better comms, minimize the data my phone shares (setting up a de-googled pixel now), and have always avoided most social media (never been on FB/Twitter, etc, as in never even gone to the websites).

I dunno, all my younger family and their friends are neck deep in the shit, and aren't interested in hearing my "conspiracy theories"...despite them being front page news every day (all the ransomware, hacks, etc).

Be the change you want to see.

Since people won't (for example) switch to privacy-respecting comm apps just because I ask them too, I'm building my own self-hosted box that I can duplicate for my family and friends.

My goal is to provide them with a single box solution for DNS filtering (PiHole), media server (including auto disc conversion and sharing between boxes), local backup (which will replicate encrypted backups to the other boxes similar to what Crashplan Personal did), phone backup and management (MDM and file management from PC), image and file sharing (something like Facebook for family only), instant messaging (most likely XMPP), etc, etc.

Yes, it's a pretty bold plan, but my family and friends are tech illiterate, so if I want to see an improvement in privacy for myself and them, it's on me to do it, and make it attractive for them.

Because what you wrote is unnecessarily convoluted, circular and overly complex.

Going right along with that is your sophist projection of someone "complaining". Nowhere was there a complaint. That was nothing more than an argumentation tactic by you: sophistry.

I don't.

30 years ago

Good point about platform agnostic remote for management stuff. VNC is ideal for this.

And systems like Proxmox use a web GUI for most stuff, it's a touch slow but I think that's mostly just waiting for the system to finish the actual changes I make, and not the UI.

It uses some form of VNC (forget the name). Performance is fine for the VMs for non-video stuff.

You can run whatever you want inside a VM too.

Works for me, but damn it's dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up

Serious question, why not use current wifi for that kind of distance?

I know, it's probably not really easy to make the comparison at this point - power usage is definitely part of that equation. Though the lower bandwidth of this doesn't seem quite enough for video?

Edit: I misread the bandwidth as 347kbit, not Mbit. So yea, this looks very promising for video, especially given the limitations of Wifi, plus using less power.

Wait, provide no feedback?

There was a post recently about ".LAN" recently being added to the DNS spec