Yeah I remember it was not that easy to set up, but it’s gotten a lot easier recently. I switched from the native to the docker install last year and was surprised to have it all back up and running in an afternoon…

I’ve been using jitsi meet for video calls for years now, that should work just fine.

Mumble has a very small footprint and exceptional voice quality. It’s intended to use while gaming as well.

I’ve used jitsi meet (own instance) for this before. OBS might work as well.

When is a door not a door?

There is also an alternate app called paranoids pal on fdroid, that’s new and maintained, it did not work reliable on my phone, maybe it works better for you.

And I’ve used private lock for years and still sometimes lock the phone accidentally, but for me the inconvenience is acceptable because of the security gained.

There is private lock on fdroid, of you shake your phone biometrics get disabled and three phone locks. It’s meant as protection from someone grabbing your phone and running away with it but works fine for other emergencies as well.

There is also an aftermarket solution, if you are not on gos, three name is duress on droid.

If you still want the comfort to open your phone via biometrics plus disable biometrics in emergencies there is private lock (fdroid). It will engage when the phone is shaken, e.g. a thief grabs it from your hand while you are typing, or you shake so nobody can force you to open it by fingerprint. The device will be locked and biometrics disabled until you unlock it again. There is also a recently updated app on fdroid with the same features, but it was not as reliable for me so I went back to using private lock.

100% Opnsense. I used to run pfsense for a couple of years but there project was bought by a for profit. Enshitification ensued. They still released their code as per open source licence, but it was not up to closer inspection as it could no longer be used to built the distro from source. They banned perfectly fine hardware from using pfsense as it could not provide hardware acceleration for open-vpn (Aes-ni). The fork opnsense is to be preferred.

If you are looking for a future proof, snooping free and secure solution for home routers, there is most likely no way around installing open source firmware like openwrt. I would just pick a device with good openwrt support, some ubiquity models have that, if I remember correctly. But there are many alternatives by different manufacturers. I would just chose one with good hardware specs in your price range, install openwrt and call it a day.

I don’t get it either, I don’t see any pictures even when following the link to the original post.

You can compare pros and cons of both messengers here: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

Post quantum encryption will probably be an issue in a couple of years and I think there will be solutions then in many messengers.

I am not sure what you mean by persistent user ids. How much would it matter if you run your own server line I so with xmpp?

I am all for using the true and tested xmpp protocol.

If you don’t like flatpak there is also firejail which you can run to isolate browsers or many other programmes.

There is also a programme to run your browser from ram and commit changes to disk when it closes, which I’ve used for a year or so and can recommend. I have to look up the name later at home, if you are interested.

Browsers write to disk every couple odd seconds per default settings (I think up to 20gb a day), which eats away on an ssds life cycle. in Firefox this can be changed, but the in ram option makes it smappier as well as a benefit.

I recently heard the idea to donate monthly to one project of your choosing so the developers could rely on a steady income. I think that’s a great way of doing it.

I’ve been using docus (izzys fdroid repo) for some time and can recommend it.

Edit: it seems it’s no longer being maintained.

I would switch to jmp immediately if only it were available in Germany.

interesting!

I’ve learned a lot about privacy/security from xmpp chatrooms, especially the room for the conversations client and the divestos chatroom. They both are kind of support chatrooms for the chat client/ android rom but privacy is often a topic and the programmers/ rom maintainers are also present and very knowledgeable. https://search.jabber.network/rooms/1

They use xmpp as their messaging system I think. Xmpp is open source, but I am not sure about the licence used.