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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It’s not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don’t have any social media there’s no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best secure router for home use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can this work with the “off the shelf” mesh routers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it’s way too much computing power for my self host needs. I’d have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to set up 2FA on my self-hosted services?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re comfortable with using Cloudflare, you can use their zero trust tunneling and setup an application layer that adds auth to those services. I have mine protected by my GitHub login.