I don’t mind paying for software and I regularly donate to open source projects. The problem is that most corporate software is closed and I don’t have the freedom to use it as I wish.

Copyright exists to bully ordinary people. It does not apply to megacorps.

Yet another reminder that Google is an unreliable company. Install Fdroid tonavoid Google’s mistakes.

I think you can have password auth in Samba.

That being said, the more important thing is to protect your VPN network.

Automatic1111 for Stable Diffusion and Ollama for LLMs

You can use Waydroid to run Android apps on Linux.

I just use a Samba server behind wireguard.

for NAS I recommend samba behind a wireguard vpn

thanks, this was very helpful

you lost me at s3 backend

yes, that is pretty much it. all actions, including logins need to be done with 2-factor authentication, which means Google Play Store.

I’m running Android apps on my laptop using Waydroid. Works really well

My bank uses the app to auth logins to website bank.

It soon will

Searching around online, I found NeoLauncher looks pretty good: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

I haven’t tried it though.

My banking apps. They are the only reason I can’t fully de-google myself.

Telegram is pretty good, and has open-source clients.

Moderating AI is dumb. This is the result.

You need to have one member in the vpn that has a public ip address.

Also my internet provider at home gives ip6 addresses that are public.

I also need to plug in the ethernet cable 🤣 I assumed this was a given.