Think of a file system as a book. There is a table of contents, and then all the files are in the subsequent pages. Deleting a file is typically done by removing the entry in the table of contents, the pages are untouched, which means its a very minimal change.

Deleting an app should be fine, but if its an older phone, you may want to look for a migration path, as hardware will fail as it ages. Could be anything, battery, charging ports, buttons. One day it will die.

My purely anecdotal opinion, once you get into university and higher education, everyone is a bit autistic and socially stunted. Its almost a prerequisite.

For openwrt+wireguard, see: https://cameroncros.github.io/wifi-condom.html

Looks like tailscale should work in openwrt: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start

For the wireguard server, I am using firezone, but they have pivoted to being a tailscale clone, so I am on the legacy version, which is unsupported: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start

And leave the laundry vacant? Better get a third.

I can’t remember exactly what its called, but something like router NAT loopback is what you want. I’ll have a look around. But if you set it right, things should work properly. It might be a router setting.

Found it: https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/stories/detail/1726

At 8tb, I can’t find any, but here is a 5tb disk:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-Drive-Factor/dp/B01LXO31IZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_13

Check the thickness though, your device may not accept 15mm disks.

The OPs device can take a nvme SSD and an internal HDD. Unclear if the current SSD is nvme or not though, but I assumed it was nvme.

The USB connection will likely be quite slow, and some external harddisks will power save aggressively.

You could get a largish 2.5" HDD and hook it up internally, might be a middle ground cost-wise?

I think they just advertised how trivial it would be to take their website down…

Homeassistant is another option. Host the server and run the app on your phone. Its not very granular though, and the user interface is not great

She was sustained by eating babies, its an unfair advantage

Here in Aus, this is how the NBN is provided in some areas, there is a NBN coax-to-ethernet box, and then you can plug in your own router.

There is always a chance that your ISP is doing something weird that prevents that working, but I think it should be fine.

Weirdly, i dont think that episode freaked me out, but yeah, in hindsight it probably should have.

Not seasame street, but thomas the tank engine. There was an episode where Thomas got covered in tar and feathers (i think? Was a while ago), and that freaked younger me out. Never watched it again.

I couldnt easily find financial data for Proton AG, but they are still tiny. 100m proton mail users vs 1.5b gmail users. If one of the really big players wanted to, I am sure they could make proton an extremely tempting offer.

Dont forget that 20 years ago, Google/GMail was well trusted as well, once Proton reaches a critical mass with sufficient lock-in, there is nothing stopping them going down the same path Google did.

Not sure I agree with me, but ok :)

Well, yeah, like I said, way to late to change. Programmers are notoriously bad at naming things, but once named, its hard to change.

It might have made the “Which instance do I join?” question a bit more intuitive and self-answerable if it was instead:

Q: Which community do I join? A: Oh, obvious, the one that seems to match my IRL community/values.

(If its not obvious, I am also a programmer, so any opinions on usability and human behaviour are also completely detached from reality 😄)

Its way to late to fix, but instance => community and subreddit => subcommunities would have kept some of the nomenclature similar.

And instances being a community seems to be how beehaw and others want to work anyway.

Its not, but if the value of the data is low, its good enough. There is no point backing up linux isos, but family photos definitely should be properly backed up according to 3-2-1.

It depends on the value of the data. Can you afford to replace them? Is there anything priceless on there (family photos etc)? Will the time to replace them be worth it?

If its not super critical, raid might be good enough, as long as you have some redundancy. Otherwise, categorizing your data into critical/non-critical and back it up the critical stuff first?