In one description I saw, part of the criterion was algorithmic feeds i.e. viewer manipulation. Lemmy has a fairly wimpy form of that compared to something like Facebook, and it could be shut off entirely without any loss. If it were up to me I’d shut it off either way.

1. I’ve had trouble getting Jami to work at all, I think because of incompatibilities between versions and whatever. You might have better luck with something like Linphone.

2. I haven’t tried a VOIP hardphone but I use Linphone on Android sometimes. I would say call quality is worse than normal cellular voice calls even those are certainly VOIP at some level too.

3. VOIP is more crap to fool around with and periodically troubleshoot, but you can get it to work if you have to. I don’t find landlines to be worth it any more (I just use mobile voice) but they’re probably still the most reliable of the approaches, and I guess it depends somewhat on your family’s discomfort level with technology.

VOIP hardphones are nicer to use than mobiles, but I guess unlike traditional landlines, they don’t work in power outages. All the ones I’ve seen rely on a power cube.

It might be useful as a desperate improvisation but otherwise get a real filter. You want to filter out very fine particles. AQI is measured at 2.5 micron but you want sub micron filtering if you can get it.

I don’t think that would work well. I did a crude thing with a single furnace filter instead of 4 of them and that worked ok though.

This is not anything new or US specific for heavens’ sakes. Socrates was sentenced to death in ancient Greece for “corrupting the minds of youth”, “failing to acknowledge the gods of the city”, and “introducing new deities”.

It never stops.

It was started by a Mexican guy (Miguel de Icaza) who eventually went to work for Microsoft, oops.

Epub is html with some crap wrapping it. Converting it to text follows the html formatting, like using the lynx browser.

Mostly pandoc (for epub to text) and a few stupid python scripts. I’m a luddite and prefer reading text files. I don’t use any particular collection management beyond filenames and grep.

It’s fine, there’s a whole industry trying to turn chess into a spectator sport based on the hopes that viewers will root for their favorite players and buy stuff from the advertisers, or whatever. Compared to competition level players I barely understand the game, but I still enjoy spectating. These days of course everyone roots for the evaluation bar.

There’s a Harry Potter story where he had six pet basilisks called Madonna, Kip, Aqua, Marine, Delphi, and Sang. Maybe that’s a start. He also had a gaboon viper named Kichaka. And there was a mention in a Roald Dahl book about using a viper for something, but “it must be a vindshield viper”. That stayed with me even though I’ve forgotten the rest.

Or maybe Albert Einstein’s layabout brother-in-law who couldn’t even spell his own name.

Heh also https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Susanna_Luchenko

This retired the whole genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ

Sid Vicious’s version of I Did It My Way. I think originally from the 1980s.

I haven’t been paying attention and didn’t realize they had let those guys out of Romania.

Yeah, I guess E2EE usually depicts two clients connected through a server. So the clients (the “ends”) have keys but the server doesn’t. In your picture there’s only one “end”. So it may be better to just say client-side encryption.

When you say E2EE that usually refers to encryption and decryption at each end. So the endpoints see the plaintext but it’s encrypted in transit.

I think you don’t want E2EE in the above sense. You want all the encryption and decryption to be on the client, i.e. you want encrypted remote storage where the server side ONLY sees ciphertext.

Anyway yeah, maybe just SSHFS or NFS to an encrypted disk image on the loopback FS of your local machine. I think the remote side shouldn’t even have a file system (i.e. that exposes metadata like file sizes) rather than just a raw disk-like image. But, it could still be possible for someone monitoring disk activity on the server side to infer some things about that.

How much data are you talking about? What is your budget? You might be better off with a dedicated server, e.g. Hetzner server auction. That would make various active monitoring at the host less likely. You’d still want to encrypt in about the same way as you would a VPS.

You are trying to serve a LAN? You mention you can’t use a local server, but if “can’t” only means it’s inconvenient, it might be worth the effort anyway. Come to think of it, a transatlantic internet connection will also be pretty slow.

I don’t think OP was looking for free hosting. Free software, yes, sure.

Don’t put your Keepass on a remote server! Jeez. For your photos you could run Nextcloud on a VPS with an encrypted file system. That wouldn’t be super duper secure (the host could get the keys out from the running VPS) and you’d have to deal with reloading keys every time you rebooted the VPS for whatever reason, but it’s a pretty simple thing to do. IDK if that would count as E2EE since the VPS does see the plaintext in transit.

Maybe you could do something with SSHFS and an encrypted disk image (all encryption and decryption is on the client side) but that starts getting slow and flaky.

Tbh I don’t bother with anything like that for my own photos. They’re just on my local machine and not on the network. I have some encrypted Borg backups on a remote server but no Nextcloud or anything like that.

This is like those AI slop youtube channels where they make up stories about celebrities with a suspicious lack of details. Sorry this needs names and specifics.

Yes there are lots of brands. The Elipse got a poor review on reddit a while back, but I haven’t tried it myself.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Masks4All/comments/sudju5/recs_for_p100_valveless_ehmr_respirators/hxa3rfn/