Apple does extensive audit of mobile apps, including limitations of tracking. So the app cannot spy on something you are not letting it to know. But you are giving it a bunch of info voluntarily.

I’d say using that app on iOS is similar to making a food delivery order using a loyalty member ID. Basically, you are letting the company (McDonald’s) know who you are, what is your phone number, where do you live, and what do you like to eat. And if they wish to, they could use all that to purchase your profile from a data brocker. Or they can sell that info for a few cents to make up on that discount.

I’m probably being overprotective. However, teachers have a lot of kids to watch over. My kid would probably not go adventuring on their own, but we cannot rule out a kidnapper or some natural emergency situation.

This looks interesting. But the only pre-built hardware option they have on the list, Nano G1 Explorer, is way too big for a little kid. But I may get it for adult family members for emergency situations.

I’ve heard good opinions about Garmin before, but that was in context of navigation and fitness tracking. Would it work for my use case, tracking a family member?

I’ll check that one out, thanks!

Do I need to have an iPhone to use an AirTag?

Yes, because 5 year old child is not supposed to venture away from school.

The more the merrier. Yes, there will be more shit content, but there will be more quality content and engagement. Small platforms tend to die or become an echo chamber.

I want Lemmy to replace Reddit completely

Yes, that’s what I meant to say. You put in right words

Depends on what you want exactly. Easy and self-hosted are not usually go well together unless you’ve got enough experience.

Easiest way for blog - use a platform. WordPress.com is great and has free tier.

More involved, but still relatively easy - static site generator. I use Hugo myself, there is Jakyll that is popular too. Host it for free on GitHub or GitLab pages.

I would not self-host a public web site for security reasons. But you can run a static site on some cloud service. A personal blog with small audience should be fine on Oracle free tier.

Some stuff is in Joplin, some stuff is in wiki.js. Joplin lacks organization features. Wiki.js stores stuff in database and has problems with search, both are possible to fix, I believe…

Occasionally I remember about problems with this setup, but I’m too lazy to fix or replace it

You know that placing two charts on each other doesn’t prove a correlation, right? Good unions are probably good for workers though. Is there one for IT guys?

Reddit has a lot of useful content. Keeping a copy of them here makes sense in case:

• OP decides to delete posts from Reddit
• Reddit decides to limit access to registered users only
• Reddit burns down (unlikely tho)

This is really cool! Thanks for posting this. I wonder if Jeff is on Fediverse so I could thank him personally - I have no Twitter account anymore.

Not my solution, but I liked an idea and thinking to use it too - copy backups on external HDD and put it into your car trunk. Maybe have two drives in rotation.

It eliminates a need to drive somewhere for rotation, and any cost of renting a safebox.

Doesn’t protect from a serious disaster like forest fire or earthquake or nuclear war, but I keep the most important data in cloud, and if my house and car burns I would be having other problems than worrying about some homelab snapshots.

First of all, thanks for setting up this instance!

I’d suggest to open some form of paid subscription right now, not waiting for the moment when we’ll need to make hard choices. And don’t bother with asking for single-time donations - it’s not sustainable with so small number of users.