powermaker450

joined 1 year ago

who let the magic mouse engineers loose

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal uses AWS.

I tried both MQTT and just the plain HTTP variant, and I couldn't get either to work. I've fully settled on the latter you mentioned, Traccar. it's pretty much what I've wanted: self-hosted, easy to set up, beautiful web interface. Thanks for the suggestions!

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

for two reasons, I can't use this.

  1. Android. Me, my family. Our past phones were, our current phones are, and future phones will be Android phones.
  2. I'm looking for whatever it may be to be OSS and self-hostable (if the community name didn't give that implication away)
[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OwnTracks setup was a bit confusing to me and I never got it working. traccar looks pretty nice though, I'll check it out!

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Alternative to Life360? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I want to set up location sharing for my family/friends, but

  • without having a closed source app having access to my location/sensors all the time
  • be able to choose when I want to share

Any recommendations?

Edit for those who find this later: I ended up choosing Traccar suggested by @mbirth@lemmy.ml, but big thanks to everyone who brought some ideas to the table! I'll leave my configs here.

My Docker Compose file

My traccar.xml

Mint is lovely! I started out with it years ago and still use it today.

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The best part about FreeTube unlike other Third-Party clients is that it retains a better YouTube-like suggestions system for any videos you wanna watch next. Discoverability is still a very important thing for me

T-Mobile offers the basic edition (with ads) for free on my plan at least. knowing Netflix though, that probably won't last much longer. oh well, I'll still have the high seas.

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 4 months ago

this just in: google is still spying on you in every way possible

usually in your router settings you can change local DNS settings. you can set your domains and subdomains to point to your server's local IP.

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

then remove that "colossal attack surface" by compiling a custom kernel and utilities that only includes the features the product needs. create a system tuned to the exact product to make it extremely reliable. almost everything electronic you see in commercial use is Linux because of this very fact.

Many medical devices run Linux.

Toyota, Tesla, Audi, Mercedes, and Hyundai vehicles use Linux.

you certainly can rely on it for your life and nearly every electronic device you use will use some derivative of it.

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