1. Signal
2. SimpleX

Life on earth that only sees in the radio part of the light spectrum is probably extinct now without us ever knowing it existed.

TPM has solved this now for more than a decade.

Verified boot + TPM encryption key storage is a huge layer of protection for the boot process.

Check out the Arch wiki for TPM. It has some good reading.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module

All those backdoors

Its one or the other. Either Google Play Services will push notifications, or the apps have to have the ability to handle push notifications on their own (which isn’t common).

Google Play Services can be sandboxed in GrapheneOS, but there isn’t an open source Google Play Services since its not included in AOSP. It is very much a proprietary blob.

You need VLANs if you want separate networks on the SAME router. But if you have separate routers, then you don’t need VLANs.

You will need two wireless access points. If the router you mentioned has two wireless access points built in, then just set one to connect to the shared network, and the other will act as an AP for your private network. Then the router can be configured to send WAN traffic out of the shared network AP.

If you use a router that only has a single AP built in, then you will need to purchase and additional AP to plug into one of your router’s LAN ports so that it has two total.

Some routers might have the ability to create multiple wireless networks on one router, but be sure the hardware can handle the load. I know my ubiquity UDR can create up to 5 wireless networks on that single device before you run into performance issues.

Honestly, if you’re using your own router, you won’t need to worry about VLANs as long as your router separates your private network from the shared one.

For example, if the shared network is 192.168.0.0/24, you can make your private network 192.168.5.0/24 and have your router’s firewall block incoming traffic from 192.168.0.0/24. Only allow WAN traffic out, and allow return traffic.

Then have your router or connected server act as the authoritative DNS and DHCP servers for the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.

One wireless AP will be used in client mode to connect to the 192.168.0.0/24 shared network. The other wireless AP will be used as an access point for other devices to connect to the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.

Yeah but playing defense on free eaves AI is going to filter this out frontier civilization quack.

Its perfect for a small VPS. Been using it for years.

I do occasionally get places where my email simply will not send to them, even though it follows every email standard properly and isnt blacklisted. For those rare occasions, ill use a third party email address to send, which then forwards everything to my main email.

Nah, you were right. Im just joshin around.

Excuse me, did I put a “/s” in my message?

I love watching sex with my son. This is a great suggestion for OP and their son.

YouTube itself.

I was there before YouTube had ads. And Ive avoided it since they implemented them.

Though I agree with it being a good recommendation, Signal is BY FAR easier to set up and have people use. I think that’s what will help adoption.

Yes, its fine to have your OS on a separate SSD and use your HDD as data storage.

Its also important to maintain your drives. Be sure to have SMART alerts, and do spinrite or badblocks occasionally to let the drive firmware remove bad sectors from use.