Yep, highly recommend it. Its easy to setup, especially if you already know a little about self-hosting.

Ironfox as mentioned and also Titanium browser which is built from Vanadium browser if you aren’t on GrapheneOS. Both block ads and allow extensions, especially the ublock origin extension.

You don’t need much at all if you’re asking hardware-wise. Depends on what you want to host but I run jellyfin, searxng, slskd and many other containers on a small Intel CPU and 16 GB of ram. I run all of my containers in docker-compose and have no issues. Storage wise, all of my containers run from a 1 tb ssd, the containers themselves only store your config files, etc so you don’t need much storage for that. If you wanted to run like Jellyfin for media then you would probably want more storage.

If you do any self-hosting, hosting your own instance of SearXNG is a much better way to go. No AI and you actually get results for what you search for. It pulls results from all the other search engines and you can choose which engines you want in settings, and it masks your IP so the other search engines don’t see where the requests actually come from. But even if you don’t self-host, SearXNG is just a much better privacy respecting search engine anyway.

Yes, I said they’re slowly locking down the newer models. And yeah, older pixels still have some time. But is this crisis we are in gonna end by the time those pixels lose support or are these Motorolas going to be our only option. That’s all I’m pointing out. Yeah, still a little early to panic but if how things have been lately, I think this is looking to be bad for the average person who doesn’t have a lot of money. Over $2,000 USD is absolutely insane.

Yeah until those are no longer supported and these expensive ass Motorolas are the only option BC Google is locking down newer models that won’t be able to have GOS installed eventually.

Yep, I’ve been saying this. They are now slowly putting GOS out of reach for many. Pixels are slowly being locked down by Google to where GOS won’t be able to be installed on newer models, so the only option left will be these ridiculously priced Motorola’s or old Pixels that won’t be supported much longer. Really makes you wonder what is truly going on with GOS now.

OK, I will give that a try for now. Sounds a little quicker. Then when I have more time I can go the other route you mentioned. Thanks again.

Whew, OK that’s more involved than I thought it would be. I will try to find time on the weekend to mess with it. Thanks for the info.

Awesome, I will be looking into setting this up tonight. Thanks for the info.

Agreed on all of this. I run docker on one of my PCs and have multiple containers running. But I didn’t know you can cluster multiple PCs to run a copy of the containers and I was just wondering about a week ago if that’s possible. Would you have a resource on how to set up a 2nd PC to do this and cluster with my server?

Give it time and I’m sure we will find out many more CEOs and companies are asses as well. Just hasn’t come out yet. The AI bs, greed, etc is becoming the norm. I agree, I am moving from Proton as well, but it just seems to be the norm and happening more and more. Which company is next?

You’re right, it does. But yes, it does suck much less than discord. Discord is and is becoming more and more of a privacy nightmare.

I argued this with them numerous times. They don’t care. They insist that discord gives them the moderator tools they need to moderate. They hate matrix and want to be done with it. So, that means giving up everyone’s privacy to use a shit platform that does everything it can to collect user data and go against what its all about.

No problem. Thanks for answering. I found something saying that it does work with CoMaps by enabling surveillance poi as a custom overlay in CoMaps and to do that you import that data from openstreetmap. You’re probably right that it was for OSMand. I will try and find out more. Thanks again for answering.

Question, because I’m not finding much information on this. Supposedly we can incorporate overlays from OSM into CoMaps that shows Flock camera locations on our routes. Would you have any information on how to do this or a resource that could show me how? Thanks in advance.

Its just crazy that there are still people that don’t realize this is exactly what’s going to happen when you use this stuff from these sorry corporations, google, amazon, meta, microsoft, etc etc. Stop using this shit!

A second ID from where may I ask?

FUCK indeed. Now I guess I need to find an alternative. Fuck all this id verification bullshit.

Problem is, they’re all going to do it at some point. Its clear this type of shit is becoming the norm with every. single. corporation.