I ran a relay too way, way back in the day and I remember almost a third of the sites I used blacklisted my IP address within days. It wasn’t cool.
I ended up shutting it down, resetting my cable modem, and spoofing a new MAC address on my router to get a new IP address to get everything working again.
Using a VPN is smarter. I wouldn’t run that on IPv6 whatsoever.
I’m saying split tunnel is very similar to a whitelist and is available to some VPN’s. A split tunnel would also bypass the VPN.
Also, while Android auto is a system app now, it is also identifiable by my VPN software and able to be whitelisted.
Maybe we’re just using VPN’s differently than you’d expect. For example, I use Blokada, a local VPN for reducing ad/tracking services embedded in apps. I don’t actually send my traffic to a remote server.
I can get it to work if I whitelist the android auto app from my VPN.
For me, wireless. Wired still worked through VPN.
I just ran into this too. Had to whitelist the app. Felt dirty and probably is…
Every Plex client is a little different, but there is usually a video details or “playback info” button that will give you stream info such as direct play, transcode, or transcode (HW) for hardware support.
I just did something sort of like what you are doing and after a few hiccups, it’s working great. My Synology just couldn’t handle transcoding with docker containers running in the background.
Couple differences from your plan: I chose a N100 over the N150 because it used less power and I wasn’t loading up CPU dependent tasks on the thing. The N150 is about 30% faster if memory serves, but draws more power. Second, do you really need a second m.2 SSD BTRFS volume? Your Synology is perfectly capable of being the file storage. I’d personally spend the money you’d save buying a smaller N150 device on a tasty drive to expand the existing capacity then start a second pool from scratch.
Finally, I wouldn’t worry about converting media unless you are seriously pinched for space. Every time you do, you lose quality.
Ditto to your comment except power usage. I moved my Plex/Jellyfin (and hopefully Immich soon) docker containers to an N100 for the hardware acceleration. TDP is 6 watts on some of these devices and CPU use sits around 2% unless Plex is doing DB optimizations (about 60% for a bit). I haven’t measured consumption or my older server, but I feel moving some CPU intensive services to hardware GPU is saving a few watts.
There is M.2 on the mobo so I’d probably go with NVMe over SSD.
I second the RAM recommendation. I have 32GB in my Synology and it needed it for all those docker containers and VM’s.
As for the mobo, not thrilling, but could work. If you have to add a PCIe card for more drives, 10G network, or more NVMe, you’ll max out pretty quick with a GPU in there too.
I don’t think purchase info is necessary tied to hardware out of the box beyond asset tracking. That would cause issues with gifting.
The easy answer is if you don’t run the software, it can’t collect data.
However, the firmware is network capable and certain diagnostic tools and recovery modes can call home. I am not familiar to the extent, however.
This also does not stop other devices, Apple included, from detecting the Mac and reporting home hardware/location data.
Totally get it. And if you find a cool solution, let us know.
I’ve been slowly, very slowly, migrating away from Synology stuff, but everything you mentioned are my holdouts because they have been rock solid for decades. Even the cheap used products can swing those apps.
I hate to be the bad influence (no, who am I kidding, not really) and suggest more servers, but if you can find something cheap, I’d maybe give it a try.
The way I read it, “verify your identity” means prove you’re not a bot, not that they had your number to begin with and need it to match.
But Google thanks you for voluntarily providing that data which is now and forever subject to Google’s privacy policy.
I just go idle for a week or two and it works again. It seems like a soft IP block. I use a IPv4 address for yt-dlp so CGNAT sort of works in my favor here.
I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don’t think I did) and it’ll be console and DB queries for a fix.
Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.
If you’re considering life360, you’ve already lost the privacy game.
There are different levels of privacy to consider.
Apps: limit number of apps or essential only. Many have built-in trackers for developer kickbacks. Even developers don’t know the full extent of how the data is used.
Device settings: harden the phone by checking all the privacy settings. Install an ad/tracker blocking VPN app.
Evesdroppers: Your phone is a radio transmitter. Companies know this. Your mobile company may have privacy settings and track phones independently of any device settings or app. Also, bluetooth loggers are placed around high traffic areas, such as stores, to record precise location and movement. Disabling wifi, Bluetooth, or Mobile may be considered depending on level of privacy paranoia*.
There may be some privacy respecting tracking options (well, as a family anyway) over on the selfhosted lemmy community if you’re ready to go down that rabbit hole.
•It’s not paranoia if it’s real.
Seen these. Pretty creepy but some folks don’t mind.
But you said Amazon has access to my fingerprints? Got proof?
Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn’t easy, but at least make them work for it.
Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.
We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it’s highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.
That’s good news! It would be great if relays made it difficult to be targeted. I last tinkered with TOR almost… Jeez!.. 20 years ago haha!