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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Of you already have a will the most secure, proof idiot way I’d to add that key + instructions to the will. Get some lawyers on board for that and it will work.

    If you still have concerns about having the full key on a single place, add a topt or second way of identification and distribute it between your heirs.

    Sometime, the old fahion way is the best one by far.




  • Fritzbox boxes.

    They tick all the checkboxes

    • good standards support (including dect protocol if you want to have an ip phone or even iot protocols)
    • fast wifi speeds
    • cheap (at least for the second hand in ebay)
    • super stable, never had a problem with them in 5 years or more
    • fast roaming support out of the box

    It is a well known brand in Germany but pretty unknown outside that country. Honestly it is the best bang for buck I was able to get.

    Honestly, I would spend 10 minutes checking on them





  • Yes, it will be enough if your services are not exposed via port forwarding , tailscale / zerotier are super convenient for this.

    Honestly, if I were you I would start thinking in having a small computer just to act like a proxy / firewall of you synology, or even better, just run the applications on that computer and let the nas only serve files and data.

    It is much easier to support, maintain and hardening a debain with a minimal intallation than nay synology box just because the amount of resources available to do so. In this easy way you could extent the life of your nas far beyond the end of life of the Sw






  • Even if you have a valid point, modern fingerprinting technics usually is done through your data and the connection dependencies of them (which accounts are activated from the sane computer and so on).

    Selfhosting remove some links between your data set like the files you store in drive, the people who appear in your photos, your contact list, to whom you email… Etc etc

    Suddenly all this data is vanishing from the big techs, so, in theory it would be possible to make that association process more difficult