I use tablets to read things when lying down, so notebooks don’t fit.

Matrix (Element), Signal, Telegram. Other stuff probably requires Google services which I don’t use on the tablet. Phone has Google services, but I don’t really use it for messaging other than Signal.

The endgame is that nobody has money and companies go bankrupt. The end.

I’m on GrapheneOS on tablet/phone for time being, but I’m fine going back to a dumphone and a Linux or BSD tablet or convertible.

Marketing. Fresnel lenses are not going to do well with diffuse light.

Yes, I’ve also gone back to Hacker’s Keyboard on GrapheneOS (been using it on LineageOS for years) after checking out some alternatives. Interestingly enough, my new Pixel Tablet’s screen has less contrast than my trusty old AMOLED on my Samsung Tablet.

Thanks! FYI, I went for Hacker’s Keyboard (apk downloaded from F-Droid since newer version than GitHub) after all. I hope this does not have a severe security impact on my setup.

GitHub blurb mentions “WARNING: This is a rather ancient project that was originally developed back in 2011 based on the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) AOSP keyboard. While it still works as-is for many users, it would need some major rewrites to work with newer APIs, and some features such as language switching or popup keys don’t work right on modern Android systems. I’m not currently planning on significant updates, and it’s possible that it will stop working on modern devices or will no longer be updateable via the Google Play store due to minimum API level requirements. Play Store requires targeting API level 29 (Android 10), while the code was written for API level 9 (Android 2.3) from 2011.” and I thought I saw that the F-Droid package is 7 years old.

Ironfox.

You can orbot all the things, so your endpoint and your exit are not associated. Using a mobile router is a good policy, despite of GrapheneOS good modem isolation.

If you’re always carrying the hotspot device with you, and the sim is nonanonymous (or can be easyly deanonymyzed with correlation), then your position is still traceable.

Pixel 7a and Pixel Tablet since yesterday here.

On Pixel 9 stock they mention you can disable AIcore in the settings, so I would assume GrapheneOS is unaffected.

Great writeup.

How much is a kWh in your parts? Noise, ambient temperature? You can buy very decent refurbished Lenovo tiny PCs with some 16 GB RAM and 6 cores and half a TB SSD which will run Proxmox and are low power and noise. You can go multi-node Proxmox later if you want to expand. k8s and related are also an option.

DIY few kWp solar payback is about 2 years.

In Germany consumer power is something like 0.4 EUR/kWh, so economics of running power-hungry hardware might be different. Solar PV might change the equation once again.

It sound impressive, until you read it’s Las Vegas. In places like Germany you have several weeks per year with neither enough sun nor wind. With backup power like gas turbines which run few weeks per year you have to subsidize the operators. And if you want run them on green hydrogen, massively overbuild the renewable capacity so that you can fill up gas storage during summertime.

Gmail is way more reliable than anything I could self-host. It’s a huge pile of unsorted junk that is only usable with search.