*gestures at everything.

On an individual basis when wages don’t keep up with inflation, it feels like a recession. When retail sales are down, services spending is down and business spending is down, except for ai, it feels like a recession.

Yep, like floating spacex and making it be part of index funds against the rules.

And property prices in Sydney and Melbourne are much higher than a USA or Europe equivalent.

My local store does that with online shopping. You just add to the cart one of their recipes, then they add those ingredients to your shopping cart and send you a link to the recipe. Only a small range of recipes, though.

Harris farms in Sydney if anyone is interested.

While I get the desire to degoogle and only use open source, it’s a pretty tough journey with a relatively steep learning curve, depending on your technical skill and knowledge. I would suggest looking at the pre-made and keeping their proprietary software as your starting point. Get your docker apps going, with everything backed up and degoogled and your own personal cloud. Then in the future, you can just transfer the data to a more open version.

I use synology and have been really happy with it. Haven’t been so happy with them, trying to force the use of verified drives only, but they backed down. They have a lot of functionality built in and their modified version of Linux works well and offers a lot of the google type cloud functionality out of the box, I haven’t used terramaster or ugreen. My understanding is their software and particularly docker support is poorer, it that was a few years ago. You’ll find devolving is a process, so don’t feel a need to do it all at once.

Just moving from windows to Linux made impromenets for me in terms of connecting to my nas, as nags rather than samba was automatically an option. Synologynhas built in remote access for a bunch of apps through their dynamic dns services, with easy letsencrypt workflows with wizards. Wireguard allows similar access to any docker apps. However, I’ve found it useful to be able to log in and download files from computers not in my wireguard network.

If you have an old laptop, or PC you could start out using it instead of a dedicated nas, which is just a stripped down pc. You would then just put true as or media vault on it.

Everyone has things to hide. It’s why we close the door when we poop. Just because your data is less valuable to a foreign government doesn’t make it better for you that they have or, nor better that you lose your privacy. Unless we demand open source and privacy first, without tracking and data sharing, we’re all screwed in the long run.

Yes, clearly an effective communicator and bright. A pity the brightness was only on the outside.

Ok, here’s another one from Netherlands. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-claims-123456-password-let-them-breach-the-danish-national-registry-accessing-8-8-million-records-it-and-data-services-company-with-weak-passwords-linked-source-of-the-hack

If the people with access to your data have weak passwords, then so do you.

I’m saying that bad user passwords allow data to be hacked. When it’s the credentials of someone with access, like an employee of companies with your data, then that data is more easily compromised if they have crappy passwords. It’s harder to compromise with passkeys. It is not just your password hygiene that protects your data.

Here is a recent example in Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/asos-app-users-sent-hacked-message/107236520

But most people don’t have well managed passwords. And me having good password hygiene doesn’t stop my data being hacked when someone working at a subcontracting firm to a company I use leaks all my data.

It also is annoying to have to log in over many steps with 2fa, often forced to email or SMS.

Collectively improving security benefits us all.

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