You can build a simple bed presence sensor using one of those pressure mats used to hook up to alarms in nursing homes and a water/leak detector (I use the aqara detector for this). You just have to strip off the end of the cable from the mat, find the wires that do the circuit inside of the mat (I just used the leak sensor to find them) and wire it up to the sensor. Boom, bed presence sensor! Of course, this doesn’t track your sleep directly.

Graphene can shut it off at the hardware level, or just allow charging. It’s slick.

No, it’s not selfish, although I’m sure that’s what he would want you to think. You should do what is best for you.

Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.

https://grayjay.app/

Signal via Molly seems like the best option at the moment. Molly is a third party client that allows for even more protections like database encryption and getting rid of Google firebase notifications, for example.

Molly is fantastic. Maybe someday I’ll be able to convince people to get on Matrix, but we’re not there yet. Plus there’s all of the metadata that comes along with using Matrix.

Yep, pretty much. It used to be doable, but these days it’s very difficult. It’s certainly not impossible, but one slipup and you could get on the deny list forever. It’s just not worth it, since emails are usually pretty mission critical, imo.

I would buy it. 🐧

Fedora CoreOS is meant to be just for containers if you want to go this route.

Distrobox perhaps? Not sure about the android side of things. For true “sandboxing” something like docker is probably your best bet.

It should be noted that email servers, no matter the setup, require you to follow strict standards to achieve proper delivery. It’s very easy to get blacklisted, and it’s next to impossible to get off of said blacklist once you’re on it.

I used to host my own mail server with this, but it got to be too much to get my emails to actually send. I was always wondering if my email was actually delivered or if it was silently bounced or sent to spam. Email is the only thing I’m not willing to self host.

Both Proton and Tuta have almost all of those except for maps. For maps, just use Organic Maps or OsmAnd.

I use all of mine separately anyway, because I care about my privacy and it works better. Google products have become so enshittified and bloated that most alternatives are faster at this point.

“engage with substance as I post LLM slop with no substance at all”

Why are all of your comments from a bad LLM? Like, nearly all of them.

Step 1: Don’t use Google Calendar

These were also in Amazon’s failed “just walk out” store fronts. Ick.

No

I scrobble to Last.fm for recommendations, but I’m not sure you can get DRM free without maintaining your own library.

It’s still up: https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=7cd300eb-cf3f-47f5-90f1-9e66a8bc8d07

Archive link: https://archive.is/jQz9n

It’s my favorite way to shower. I don’t know if it’s my ADHD or what, but it’s super relaxing, one of the few times I can actually feel that sensation.