Syncthing is my answer though I appreciate it doesn’t get to the root of your question.

There are local backups that include your system settings, text messages, contacts, call history and (optionally) apps. The one thing I want is the ability to pick a directory for the local backup so I can make it work with syncthing without jumping through hoops.

It’s also compatible with Nextcloud and WebDAV if those are options for you.

I miss my pixel 5 :(

Chiming in to note that GNSS communications are actually receive only. A typical phone can’t physically broadcast a strong enough signal into mid-earth orbit (where most of those satellites typically are) to achieve the “pinging GPS satellites” issue.

Note this only refers to how that signal physically hits your phone. Once your position is deduced and digitized there’s an entirely different attack surface.

The other concerns (especially cell tower data tracking) are valid though.

What would you tout?

Echoing this but change if to since :/

Wild how you happened to have this totally original idea days after this exact diagram structure was in a video posted by a channel with 3M subscribers :) crazy coincidence

My favorite line in the fireship video this is from goes something like “FreeBSD is the real answer but I like being able to Google things”

I was going to say Guix but I’ve always been a little Gentoo curious

There’s something to practicing with the operating system family that most big commercial outfits use. Plus SELinux is neat, and there’s no Canonical ads.

I use Fedora with home-manager, btw. After using Arch and Debian for years I really think Fedora (or adjacent like Nobara) is on its way to being the de facto starter distro.

Wrong™ in 100 seconds

A rich person runs NixOS (for the military contracts apparently)

Avoid AMD? Why do you say that?

To add on to this already good description, wanted to give my $0.02 on the notion of apps.

The only way it might seem like you lose app(lication shortcut)s might be if a tool other than GNOME’s built in search is looking in a different directory, likely based off of an environment variable.

By default, hyprland doesn’t come with an equivalent to GNOME search. I use wofi to get similar functionality, but there are many tools that can do the job. Just make sure they’re looking in the right place or launch things manually from a terminal and you’ll be all set!

Agreed. That said, with a few remotes and a cron job git could facilitate “duct tape and zip ties” federation.

Heh, ligma. Nice.

+1 for this! There’s nothing wrong with just using the nix package manager either. nix-env and nix-shell are awesome tools

You’ve mentioned a few times that a new framework is firmly out of budget.

Might still be worth keeping an eye out though. They had a sale going a while ago for some units that were pulled for QA. If minor defects don’t bother you it’s possible to get a framework 13 for <1000€ if you’re patient and a bit lucky.

Just use Tailscale or something to try it out!

Sunshine on the desktop, moonlight on the client side. You can even stream games to your phone or a tablet of you’re feeling frisky.

I appreciate it too! Subscribed the second I saw this :)

I wish pinephone pro’s weren’t booty. Hardware switches to cut power to everything from the WiFi module to the camera sounds pretty hot in light of this.