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Flash drive hidden under the carpet and connected via a USB extension, holding the decryption keys - threat model is a robber making off with the hard drives and gear, where the data just needs to be useless or inaccessible to others.

There’s a script in the initramfs which looks for the flash drive, and passes the decryption key on it to cryptsetup, which then kicks off the rest of the boot mounting the filesystems underneath the luks

I could technically remove the flash drive after boot as the system is on a UPS, but I like the ability to reboot remotely without too much hassle.

What I’d like to do in future would be to implement something more robust with a hardware device requiring 2FA. I’m not familiar with low level hardware security at all though, so the current setup will do fine for the time being!

Edit: sorry, I may have misunderstood your post - free email != email masking.

My original post below…

Curious why you consider email address masking services as for those with “drastic anonymity” requirements?

I personally don’t think so: they are pretty much just a digital P.O. box, and are typically not anonymous in any way (subpoena/court order to the provider). They are built-in to Firefox too, it will automatically create new ones OOTB as you sign up on websites, if you click the autofill.

They are however IMO one effective tool out of many to restrict the ability of data brokers and hacking groups (aggregated breach datasets) alike from making money from your online presence without your consent.

In almost all cases this data is freely searchable for law enforcement and private investigators, allowing them to avoid going through the legal system to investigate and possibly detain you for things you’re not guilty of

If they’re easy to get, why not have them 😉

This is how I do it 👌 no need to install another when the pi already comes with one OOTB.

If OP is looking for VNC clients for zorin OS, there’s an app called “Connections” in the store which works great

Ooh interesting, never knew they started a rewrite!

The reports of poor performance with the PHP version was one of the things that pushed me towards using Syncthing instead when I was looking for a solution to view my documents and files from various devices

Sending files from my phone to my laptop - just copy them to a special folder and boom, sent 😁

Neat bot!

Plexamp was launched twice, first as a Plex Labs desktop-only app, then completely overhauled as a cross-platform app with 'droid and iOS releases.

It has changed a lot since, the UX is much smoother now, with tons of new settings + features implemented. There’s no other selfhosted solution that comes close IMO

throwing SMART pre-fail warnings 30 seconds after your warranty expires

WD does something very similar to this for its Red SATA drives 🥲

Ouch 😅 did you manage to recover the instance?

Edit: wow i’m blind just re-read top comment lol

Probably not stable lol, a message on the matrix said it should be dropping officially near end of next month due to testing

Ohh I was referring to the pic posted behind the “No problem” link in that user’s comment lol

I can hear the case vibration in that picture lol

This would be viable for users who don’t use smart/programmable/dynamic playlists, and the various features backed by a track analysis ML model in plexamp

Backblaze recently revised B2 storage, it’s gone up by $1 and they offer free egress equal to I believe 2x or 3x the data you have stored with them. Let me try find a link to this…

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2023-product-announcement/

Outside of Plexamp, I’m not sure of any self hosted music solutions that can generate random & context-aware playlists, most of the ones I’m aware of (Navidrome and the various apps that support it) appear to be mostly classic media players as you mentioned. There’s also Funkwhale, but that’s more of a self hosted, federated SoundCloud alternative I think.

Music discoverability is something I kind of stuggle with when looking to expand my library, so I tend to rely on apps to do this. I personally use Newpipe, as it works for YouTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp, allowing me to jump between the platforms looking for remixes and the like.

For a more spotify-like discovery experience, the Spotube app combines Spotify’s API with YouTube Music to play spotify-suggested playlists, and there’s another app SimpMusic that does the same for YouTube music

I’m worried about if/how Wayland is going to affect X11 forwarding TBH… It’s a really useful linux feature that i’m susprised gets very little use

Someone else here mentioned not running "pictrs” at all

You don’t, those are the collateral damage.

IMO it’s better to just nuke every image from the last 24 hours than to subject yourself to that kind of heinous, disgusting content

Ugh .dev domain costs are ridiculous