Ntfy is a good lightweight option indeed.

Yes

And are you selfhosting and have them join you or how and where do they get their accounts? When the encryption keys don’t sync, who’s doing tech support?

I mean, my mother is 78. It’s all kind of challenging.

Better at connecting with the people in my life, the people that I want to stay in touch with on a regular basis.

Why?

Your mom uses Matrix? You could set up something with random people you just met? Because we’re at that stage with Signal. It’s private and convenient. If I want to have some soort of anonimity I’ll use different platforms, indeed.

My contact coulds find me by phone number. I changes my status on WhatsApp and half of the regular contacts decided to use Signal. If I want to use SimpleX I would have to invite them all and just hope they’ll adopt.

I don’t need my phone number to be private. I want my communication to be private.

They offer encrypted messaging, not anonimity. They offer a way to keep your conversations private. It’s not an opsec tool, it’s not a tool to be used by the military. It’s a platform for regular people that don’t want to get spyed on or don’t want their conversations to be used agains them when legislation changes.

"Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege’’

Some youtubers like Networkchuck and Chris from BigBearTechWorld. Especially the last one convinced me with his structured and kind style. His Discourse forum is really helpful.

Legendary. Love what they are doing. I have issues with getting people on their platform because of the cartoonish style.

Globally? Have they read GDPR?

So, i don’t need much from a launcher but gestures, custom icons and folders have been apart of my smartphone for so many year they’re a must.

Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?

Finamp whips the lamas’ ass?

I’m running Home Assistant on mine at the moment. It’s amazing. Really. Apart from being an great smart home solution I’ve found it a good solution to create dashboards for life.

I have set up our family calendar, train schedules that change routes depending on the time. Waste collection notifications. It warns me to get a raincoat and umbrella in the morning. I get news headlines for my interests…

Before that I’ve tried a lot. It was my first step into home labbing 2 years ago. It brought me back to my youth. Breaking the family computer and trying to fix it before anyone noticing it.

Most of the stuff I ran used Docker.

• Joplin notes
• Mealie
• Immich
• Authentic
• Wanderer
• Homarr
• pihole
• portainer

Within a year I grew out of my pi setup and bought a second hand mini Lenovo that now runs Proxmox. Minor investment, huge upgrade. Moved away from dockers also.

The pi is a fun gateway drug.

Yes, by name. And that name has to be verified. They know everything else by default.

Ask them to hand over their unlocked phone so you can read their messaged.

Every EU phone number has to be connected to an identifiable person or company.

That’s crap. They’ve loaded their stock on a certain price and they want to surf the high wave while they can.

How?

Every major sports team has accomplishments that another team doesn’t have. That a team won the Superbowl in 1970 doesn’t give them a reason to claim that all other teams are trailing them.

If a company claims to have 50 patents they still don’t get to claim to be market leader if you don’t compare them to others.