I was sorting somethingting similar some time ago with https://www.dwarmstrong.org/remote-unlock-dropbear/
Also there is https://github.com/latchset/tang and https://github.com/latchset/clevis
Then I changed it so my server boots and offers basic functionality like DNS and any encrypted data would wait until I unlock it. When I fiddle with it could be annoying, but otherwise works very well considering I need to unlock it just a few times a year.
Out of curiosity why?
It seems like the perfect thing for BFUs…
I’m running it for about a year and I never noticed any instability. To fair Android app did not always work well.
Nevertheless I never had a problem with updating it once every couple of months. Changlog and upgrade instructions always covered everything.
You are not the target audience and yet you will feel effects of it. See what (almost) happened in Romania with presidential elections this year.
At such volume it is difficult to come up a service that does not break a bank. Storage is expensive.
Perhaps immich + monthly backups to S3 glacier. That is if you don’t have a second and third site available
How about something sized as iPhone SE or smaller? This just looks like a mediocre brick that already exists on the market.
If my lab goes down, it sucks, but that’s it. I have no critical service running there.
I have some recoverability, but it requires for the main router to run. If it isn’t running it’s either a HW failure, which I will not fix remotely anyway or power is down. In which case, not much I can do about it neither.
I have router with OpenWRT with Wireguard and main server (NUC) on a smart plug. If the router runs and server is mishaving to the point where I cannot reboot it, I can power cycle it via the smart plug connected to the router.
You mentioned your brother lives 30mins away - well put some tiny server in his house. Having everything at your home is not build for redundancy at all. That’s just the risk management, if you absolutely need access to your server, then 1 site is not going to cut it.
Sure, it won’t beat high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but a decade ago is somewhere between 4-6th gen of Core CPUs.
That’s more than enough for an average user’s Facebook machine (or WeChat probably in this case)
Maybe it isn’t such a bad news. To get ppl hooked on any paid services, they need a good product first.
They can get lost with anything like Kerbal 2. That is if they relese something in pre-alpha state and ask $40 for it.
It’s difficult to understand the move against custom ROMs. Especially considering the size of market for “weridos” that will spend hundreds of dollars on a device and first thing they do with it is unlocking bootloader.
Take that away and you go head to head against Samsung and Apple. And you will not win.
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Hard pass for me.
Well that was a problem in early '00. Lucky to have a PC at all. No internet at home and my freshly installed Mandrake, SUSE or whatever I was messing with booted to a black screen.
I reinstalled Linux a lot back then.
I was running a privacy oriented profiles on FireFox for years and kind of gave up recently.
You lose a lot of functionality and still get singled out because of some random property that is unique to your system.
Just roll it up like kebab
I am on the opposite end with the battery life. When I first had P3a, I was charging it maybe twice a week. Same experience with P6a.
Now on P8, it seems a bit worse, but still I get easily 2 days from 80% battery.
I’m embracing no play services on my main profile. In general I don’t have any addictive apps(redreader was the worst) on the phone, so don’t spend that much time on it.
This. Surely not the fastest way to get content from/to a remote computer, but it just works as soon as you enable sshd.
I used to update my Fenix 3 by downloading BIN files from Garmin website and just dropping it onto the watch’s filesystem.
For EPO I used https://github.com/scrapper/postrunner
First you need to define your requirements.
If it’s 1, then you can get a bunch of used ac routers, something like Archer C5 or C7, flash OpenWRT on it and configure 802.11r within your LAN. This requires some fiddling, but you don’t need to spend a lot of money on a decent mesh.
For 2, well you with with €200 budget it’s going to be trikcy.
Well that settles my idea of entertaining AM5.