War… War never changes.

He has a point.

Mosh plus tmux is amazing.

The device you’re thinking of has 42 decibels of sound. You should be aware of that, I don’t think it’s actually fanless

Noise is going to be a huge factor for your home lab, so make sure you look at the data sheet for whatever you’re about to buy and check what it’s rated noise level is

Identity is a human right, digital systems should NOT have the power to revoke your identity.

It is of critical importance to design digital identity systems that ensure the privacy of citizens as well as protecting them from issuer corruption. Unfortunately, what Europe’s and USA’s public sectors are currently developing does not offer such basic protections. We aim to solve this issue and propose a method for untraceable selective disclosure and privacy preserving revocation of digital credentials, using the unique homomorphic characteristics of second order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. Our approach ensures that users can selectively reveal only the necessary credentials, while protecting their privacy across multiple presentations. We also aim to protect users from issuer corruption, by making it possible to apply a threshold for revocation to require collective agreement among multiple revocation issuers.

The person your talking with is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

This is a really good review about the actual tradeoffs involved.

It’s like crazy ex syndrome. They block you, but if you block them back in reciprocating fashion now your the bad person.

No, I’m pretty f****** loathe.

Governments dictating technical standards, is fine if it’s a regulatory body that’s dynamic, but bad if the technical standard is encodified in the law itself.

In the United States the American national standards association, as well as other bodies, set standards, and the government can dictate that you need to use a standard for mainstream device. That’s fine

But a lot saying you must use USB-C, that’s crazy. USB-C has a limited lifespan. Plus they’ll be innovation in the future.

Well it’s a good thing at the moment, I am loath for governments to dictate technical specifications. I’d much rather they say electronics devices must adhere to a modern open standard. And if you are introducing your new standard, it has to be patented royalty free for other people to use

Snowblind targets apps that handle sensitive data by injecting a native library which loads before the anti-tampering code, and installs a seccomp filter to intercepts system calls such as the ‘open() syscall,’ commonly used in file access.

When the APK of the target app is checked for tampering, Snowblind’s seccomp filter does not allow the call to proceed and instead triggers a SIGSYS signal indicating that the process sent a bad argument to the system call.

I’m not the OP, but you can get 8TiB SSDs, they are spendy, but doable, no spinning disks required, the benefit of using a nas based solution is you can put a bunch of cheap SSDs in

Not directly an answer, but the CRT guy has a series of industrial computers for different environments, which could provide inspiration.

Some of them have direct DC inputs, some have anti-vibration designs, some have massive passive cooling!

The little guys series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3aKEG79DM&list=PLec1d3OBbZ8LGjvbb0GQwlQxWXmI2PA88

I think a Synology box would work for you, or a TrueNas design - you could just build out one of their motherboards in your own itx case. These are good, robust, anti-vibration, mobile low power cpus, hardware selected for robustness and minimum heat. Stick it in a cupboard and forget about it, they run containers, and vms.

they need some big fans running pushing air north across the border.

Depending on your requirements, you can pick up used gear for quite cheap, set alerts on craigslist/marketplace/kijiji. i.e. one access point for like $30 used, and host your own network controller container to configure it.

If you want a single pane of glass whole network management, its going to be spendy no matter which ecosystem you go with.

Fair enough, can’t go wrong with Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Grandstream for radios.

True, but you can use your gateway to cut off google wifi from google, and still use the radios. No need to buy new hardware.

Heck, you can put openwrt on some google wifi models https://openwrt.org/toh/google/wifi

My advice stays the same, work with what you have first, save your budget, then SLOWLY, after doing research, buy one thing, and fit it in.

Your advice is good if you just want the fastest way to de-google yourself, but i think the OP wants to run a homelab, and learn, and understand.

Do one thing at a time, don’t buy equipment unless you have a actionable use case for it.

Isp cpe in bridge mode

One of the boxes can be your gateway

You can keep using the Google Wi-Fi.

You can play around with proxmox, xen, etc, to run a bunch of containers, or virtual machines, to do different things on your network. I think you can do it all with your current hardware

What’s the name of the game? Where can we learn more about it?

If it’s world war II, and you’re thinking about who to make your overall theater commander, You’re going to put a lot of factors into that, including is this person available.

It wouldn’t make sense to make general Patton your absolute commander, and then have him be unavailable for 3 months.

Double so if they’ve already refused orders