wow, this is really weird design. a better ui for about:profiles would have been sufficient, why did they choose to make it this way…?

is the old about:profiles still working? I run ESR so can’t check myself yet…

i believe they started providing binary packages recently, i never tried gentoo properly so not sure though

isn’t it possible to configure it so that only one of my machines is able to connect to the target machine (and not the other way around)? not sure how that’s problematic.

i never used rustdesk so can’t comment on that…

i also use reverse ssh to forward the target machine’s port to mine when i can’t use tailscale.

true, but it’s hard to diagnose chromeos when things go wrong, also can’t use ublock origin or any random ancient windows software one may need. (that usually works fine with wine)

have tailscale installed on their machine, and ssh/vnc(x0vncserver or x11vnc) daemon running on it. when they call you for help you can just login directly and navigate them through stuff.

btw wireproxy also supports http proxy. i’m not sure how efficient it is, but i use it daily for having different vpns on each firefox container tab.

maybe an android phone with usb-c to hdmi? would be very easy to use for non techie family members too.

used android phones are pretty powerful, you may need to adjust graphics quality but it wouldn’t be so noticeable on such small screen imo.

i root with magisk and use afwall and adaway to block stuff. maybe not the most secure but it’s pretty private, at least i know there’s no weird network connection happening without me knowing.

it all depends on your threat model, but IMO your idea is decent. personally i’d rather have another lineageos phone for calls, since the iPhone’s phone app sucks (no call recording) and it being connected to the internet means it can be tracked by apple. also it’s impossible to install any apps on iOS without an apple account. (unless you jailbreak, which is a pretty different story. your iphone 7 can be jailbroken with checkra1n which is good tho)

i mean its great if it works well, but kinda funny we need to run a full distro in a container to run a browser to run an IM program

reinstall lineageos, if it has gapps i consider it compromised

i just use a membrane keyboard, it’s a pretty good one from 1998 i got from the garbage can in pristine condition. (“sejin skr-2233e”) i don’t think i can ever get something similar to this, so i’m seeking replacements.

That’s a very nice machine. How’s the screen nowadays? The one on my T60 is extremely dim and yellowed, seems like your’s is still pretty good?

copyparty is extremely simple to run, no need for docker. just a single python file

on some places everyone including the active seeders have utorrent 2.2.1 (or something similar) so you’ll be missing out sadly.

i have a ‘src’ directory. tho my home directory is extremely messy, ls | wc -l gives me 170 now…

…except its not really communist, like north korea’s no way a proper communist country (not that there’s any that even existed); just some shitty dictatorship

not really, i believe syncthing-fork existed even back when official syncthing supported android.

YAATA is very good, sadly its abandoned and not FOSS. I’ve never seen any network request from it tho I block it these days. This is the most lightweight one I tried, much better than Textra/Chomp/etc.

QKSMS is foss and I saw some suggestions for it, but it was way too complex for my use.

don’t use winamp, use wacup

on linux use audacious