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The big advantage of RSS and Youtube is you do not have to login to follow you channels. Your only touching what you need and soyour footprint is a lot smaller. I just started using RSS for youtube a few months ago and like it much better.

Actually I use Ting Mobile and like it. I thought they were bought out by Dish or something? Or have they changed hands again?

I did not see: Do not publish your IP address. Do not run servicies on it. Do not point DNS to it. Prefer dynamic IP that changes overtime. Encourage it to change periodically for example reboot your boundary router periodically.

Also did not see: Do not present any open ports on the internet side of your boundary router especially no administrative ones.

Edit: Disable dynamic UPNP port forwarding too.

It did not see only use routers and other network devices with auto or at least easy regular updates.

Choose a standard domain to get best delivery. Either org. com, or net. I went for short and speakble and spellable, Then sort but not quessable names to prevent spam. For my main names I chose ones that someone that knows my name would recognice but not the other way around. This was not about privacy in my case.

If I wanted more privacy I would choose one or more random other domains for that using fairly random names. Or better yet I would choose a common mail proviider and use one of their popular domains.

Also consider how your going to host. Deciding on domain is only part of the problem.

No idea.

Obtainium.

Backup. Seedvault can backup to Nexcloud though it is experimental. I use that too but do not fully trust it.

I dump apps that allow that to main storage and just plugin my phone to my laptop and archive main storage. Then I sync apps that incude sync to Nextcloud directly. This is what I have always done even before GrapheneOS. Never used Google Drive.

Keep mind the owner profile also has a work profile too and a private space. Might run in one of those.

The are also 31 user profiles like the owner profile but they do not have private spaces.

I run Grapheneos, just been through the setup. Out of about 100 aps 7 needed play. I only actually needed 3 of those. Uber and Lyft in particular and they ran fine with it. The other was my banking app which would not work. For now I will just use my old phone on wifi to deposit checks. After that I will either put it on my wife’s phone or switch institutions.

Play services my understanding is not privilaged on GrapheneOS. Usually it is.

By the way Signal does not need Play Services but it will use them if they are available.

Phone. Look at all the Google phones and divide price by years of support remaining. Best will probably a later a-series phone.

Integrity api. Graphene passes except for highest level. Who knows the future.

Kind of depends. The one thing that an untrusted network may be able to do is adjust routing tables. Some systems and some VPNs may be protected from this, some may not. At least the https connections should be secure but where you’re connecting can be trracked. DNS is vunerable too unless you set your browser system to use a secure connection to DNS server you trust.

Yes. I remember seeing the notifications. I then went to Obtainium and updated. What I do not know is if these were signal or obtainium notifications. It did seem odd at the time.

My Signal auto updates via Obtainium. That is outside of a store. I think I remember the two updates your talking about.

I envy you. The US is often terrible when it comes to individual rights and protections.

On the other hand, the stupid cookie notices triggered by EU regs are aweful. What a blunder.

I guess it can go both ways.

Is there a typical process you used to request deletion when there is no obvious way?

I am in the US and my state does not have rules that require it anyway so I am not certain if I can make them do it anyway?

What brings this up for me is I am changing my email address. Some places do not even offer that. Plus good time to clean up.

Consider one that supports MTA-STS. DANE is a plus but not widely deployed.

If EU, you have a lot of good choices. US providers are limited.

Drainage is often done incorrectly in new construction too. Very common to have all the water drop beside the front door and create a pond. Very common to have beds around the house that create little swimming pools. If nothing else the ground will sink around the foundation and have to be filled quite soon.

I am a FOSS guy so I’d just configure Debian or Ubuntu to do most of the server, media center, desktop, and laptop stuff. Smart Phones Google Pixel 8a or another a series flashed with GrapheneOS. For network I would look at PfSense, OPNSense, OpenWrt, or DD-WRT devices. I have DD-WRT devices but have they do not get updates sadly, but there are some vendors that base their devices on DD-WRT. Not sure which ones. ASUS? Buffalo? Is there a list somewhere?

The other direction is to go more commercial which is probably what you want. Lot of people like Synology products. In particular they have nice NAS products (which actually can run other services too) which should be fine if you just run them on the LAN. If you want to connect while traveling, setup some sort of VPN. Do not expose any of this stuff to the WAN. For network devices I would consider Netgate, I think they have some PfSense firewalls. Some people seem to like Ubiquiti stuff.

I personally have generally favored Netgear but as I said, I mostly have just re-flashed with DD-WRT but am thinking of doing something different at least with regard to my boundary router. It has gotten so we all need to have our network devices rapidly updated, especially exposed ones like the boundary router.

Consider low maintenance materials. Simple roof line, with good landscape drainage away from the house. Metal, ideally stainless steel roof. Triple pane metal clad or fiberglass windows choose by the sun exposure in terms of coatings. Heavily insulated. ERV ventilation. Consider commercial grade doors, and hurricane approved windows, etc. Consider unpainted stucco or another low maintenance exterior. Ground loop heat pumps for heating. Enough electrical capacity for all electric house including eV charging, but with backup power source. Design for no maintenance in the first 50 or 100 years. You might consider a safe room.

Edit: Might consider hidden and/or locked storage too, a locked filing cabinet at least, or a safe.

Edit: You might also consider a security, home automation, and house monitoring system but choose carefully. One that you control, not some cloud service.