What about email? Just create a new one just for this stuff. Go back to giving out just an email. Everyone has one of those too and it’s not as ‘archaic’ as a phone#

I don’t understand why you’d install Debian before the hypervisor.

Edit: TiL thx for the replies. I legit didn’t know of these scenarios.

I’m sure the correct answer will surface. But until then: https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lucky.clipeus

Your ‘ingram’ personality will forever live online, like a ghost…in machine…to forever be recommended to new users and great great grandkids.

Same, buts been several years now. Att fiber. Don’t use their modem either (except post power outage to establish coms back then I remove it.) I do use a ddyns service just in case. But it’s been the same ip for years

Mmc dev was doing shady at best stuff.

Pivpn is the package to get. Makes wire guard dead simple to setup. Just have to do a port forward on your router

What hardware do you have already? Is pihole running on a rpi? Look into setting up wire guard or tail scale. Then you can have pihole on your phone while your not at home.

Go old school and setup some basic website with apache2.

It’s not wrong. Not quite as much info as following the average person on socials, but it can be a lot of info at a glance.

Once had a cop show up one day, just asking about something going on in the area, and noticed an empty TV box by my trash can outside. Suggested I uh, don’t do that. Basically a big sign pointing to my house “brand new TV inside!”. Not done that since.

Then they get it through fdroid?

It did change. One of the many changes listed. It’s using a different web server, I forget now, but moved away from the previous one.

I mean, the fastest method is likely to just plug the phone into PC and pretend it’s a flash drive?

Can’t you also attempt exif data?

A sim or cell service has nothing to do with gps. Gps signals arrive from satellites in orbit around the earth…

Iirc any cell phone is still capable of dialing 911(or equivalent) even without a sim. So id imagine carrier towers and gps could still find it. You’d basically have to keep the device in a ferriday bag. Which complicates actually using it.

Binoculars

DNS is handled by my rpi that’s running pi-hole and wireguard. It has static entries for quad nine and it’s secondaries. Router (generic rax10 Netgear, nothing fancy, and it’s not obnoxious like the nighthawks) DNS points to rpi.

So any device, set with dhcp, will use that. One day I’ll have a opnsense or similar box to go even further.

Wireguard has effectively zero impact on my setup.

If it’s just one or two rooms ya need wired up, but don’t wanna run the copper? There are options. If you have any old coax drops in them there’s adapters you can attach and just reuse the old coax. OR you could look into a power line adapter. Basically it uses the house electrical lines (in the wall) to create a connection.

Mostly I just use nextclouds deck extension. It behaves close enough to what I need as a solo operation.