Search around for cheap VPS deals and start from there. That’s what I ended up doing. Yes, if you have the hardware available and lying around, absolutely. However, whatever I ender up hosting I wanted it to be accessible when I’m on the go. There’s always the ability to roll out tailscale or another VPN back to my home network but I rather keep the home network fully inaccessible from the outside. Just personal preference.

Installing a downloaded application.

How difficult was it for you to configure your self-hosted instance of FMD?

I already have a server which I use to self host owntracks. However, I don’t know much about nginx and after using the automated owntracks installer, I can’t seem to properly configure reverse proxy for anything else eg. Linkwarden.

I initially considered that, but in the end I just bit the bullet and got one 2 weeks ago.

My thought is with the current trend of PC hardware prices, I didn’t want to wait to see how it affects phone prices.

At the same time, I do not know if the collaborative phone between GOS and the manufacturer will be something I like. The current Pixel 10 phone is already bigger than what I ultimately prefer and I think it’s more probable the new phone will be phablet sized.

Definitely. It didn’t help that the application I am using doesn’t support having a custom data storage location.

Very interesting. I was cpnsidering using separate profiles, but I read somewhere that google services is sandboxed anyway, so having it all in 1 profile is fine.

What I will need a separate profile for though, is for banking apps. I have one which is adament that I use a keyboard app from the play store and will refuse to function if I have one from F-droid installed.

Congrats. I too also moved to GOS a little over a week ago. Found out a few of the apps fromy old phone no longer work as intended and I’m now discovering the security restrictions of Android 13 is making syncing of files in the Android/data folder very difficult.

I may have nothing to hide, but I have absolutely NOTHING I want any govt to see.

Still too big for me to comfortably use and carry around, unfortunately.

Sad that yet another promising phone is “phablet” sized. :(

Most of the options listed are easy to use. The difficult part is getting enough users to adopt the new system initially to motivate the rest to migrate as well.

Why does every interesting / unique phone have to be phablet sized. ;(

Black mirror is no longer sci-fi. It is slowly becoming a documentary. - Louis Rossman

I may have nothing to hide, but that doesn’t mean I want to share everything with everyone.

I tried several other Google Keep replacements and settled on Joplin as well as the contents are encrypted at rest. I use Foldersync to keep the noted synchronised between my mobile devices.

I use TrackerControl with pribate dns via NextDNS. Seems to work well.

Needs to be root as well :p

The enshittification of life as we know it.

There are 2 types of companies, the ones who have been hacked the the ones which don’t know they’ve already been hacked g about to be hacked.

If you’re curious about the company Clearview AI, check out the book “Your face belongs to us” by Kashmir Hill. It’s an interesting read.