This is indeed sad news. I’ll forever be grateful to him. He made the door that got me through into Proxmox. God rest his soul.

On what exactly?

Precisely my point. That’s the smart stand in my opinion.

Worse was the fact that the entire video felt like they were shilling for Graphene OS; which is known to have a slightly unfriendly maintainer and community surrounding him to say the least.

Correction, the developers, not the community, are flat out pricks (not “slightly unfriendly”), but this does nothing to remove how amazing the OS is for anyone wanting to remove themselves from all the mainstream garbage in the mobile devices scenario while being able to keep productivity with a few workarounds.

Out of personal experience; I’d actually rate a proper Lineage OS install of 4 whole Android versions ago to be more private than stock. Not quite as private as Graphene; but not quite as invasive and much more enforcing of privacy. The debloating provided by a clean AOSP-like ROM, such as Lineage, as opposed to a “Stock Android” configuration from a major OEM is stark.

You will see me speak about Grapheme as if it was the Holly grail of mobile OSs, and that is because I actually move between CalyxOS, stock android, grapheme and Lineage every few months, and the fact remains that you have less than half of the control on your privacy you can get on anything other than Graphene. Additionally, show me one mobile OS that has less bloat then Graphene.

Every time I see posts slamming GrapheneOS over the toxic community (which it is not) or the devs (who are extremely toxic in my opinion), all I see is butthurt overly a sensitive individuals that are looking at the wrong thing. GrapheneOS is what Android should be, it’s that simple. All these rants about how toxic x or y is only serves to keep people starting in the privacy or security (or both) path away from what is effectively a huge leap from being invaded and helpless in the current tech and surveillance scenario to having near-complete control over their digital lives.

Grapheneos has some unique features that simply no other mobile OS has. It is insane solid for security, but that does not make it lose anything in terms of privacy.

Starting with the fact that it comes with only the bare minimum of apps necessary for a functional mobile device (anything else you have to find, choose and install yourself).

Without digging too deep into the technical details of the software itself, the first "shit, I love this” factor for me begins with the storage scope and contacts scope. This is one thing I’m not willing to live without anymore. Pretty much every app, proprietary or otherwise, will ask for access to storage. With scopes you can provide access to a folder of your choice,even create a folder for each app if you want, effectively blocking every other app from potentially snooping into other apps storage.

The same holds true for contacts. Signal (Molly in my case) asks for access to contacts, but I have no need for that, as everyone I talk with over Signal is already there. But if someone new comes around, I give Molly access to that one contact and add them to Molly. My jmp.chat runs on Cheogram, and I only use it for my US and Canada contacts, so I don’t have to provide Cheogram access to anyone outside North America. Same thing with my VOIP service for work and so on.

The level of granularity achieved on permissions is just epic. I even tried to use stock pixel 4 days ago, kept it for 3 days, and had to roll back to Graphene last night because I couldn’t stand the constant nagging on the phone (and I disabled everything Google in it except the Play Store, for which I did disable everything but network).

I have no respect for Micay and his band of narcissistic developers with a god complex, but that doesn’t remove the fact that GrapheneOS is light years ahead of any mobile OS out there in terms of user control for privacy.

You are a man of culture. Great choice.

I did too, but never cared again after my wife finally switched over to Fedora. I have nobody else that I care about enough using windows.

Yeah, when forced to use Windows it’s way worse because we know the other end of the spectrum.

I know, the irony.

You have the option to get a solid hardware that you can install openwrt on, and then use the Deco mesh just for the Wifi. That’ll give you similar, if not the same results, and save you a few bucks in the process.

I just started migrating my network from PFSense, a bunch of tplink switches and Aruba InstantOn APs to unifi. I’m almost done (just missing a couple of APs more and 1 more switch), and I honestly am extremely happy with the decision. The Unifi APs are not as powerful as the Arubas, but the improvements to the performance of my network more than makes up for that.

I apologize. I misunderstood that you were looking for a mesh system that would work with an existing openwrt router. Seems what you’re looking for is a mesh system that can be flashed with openwrt.

For that I can only suggest that you look at the supported hardware table and see if you can find what you need.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Editing my previous comment for my mistake.

That’s not strictly FOSS.

If you’re not looking to segregate your network or any other “advanced” network feature, you can’t really get better value that Tplink Deco.

Edit: I misunderstood what the op was asking for. This answer is not valid for that.

Lol

⏫ That!

Unfortunately this is basically every country, democratic or otherwise.

I self host Freshrss and have a PWA for it. I also have Feeder in my Obtainium just in case, but it’s not currently installed.

Never used ansible before. All I know is that it seems to work with Ubiquiti edge switches.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/network/edgeswitch_vlan_module.html

I’ve only had it for about 4 months, but no annoyances so far. It did crash once, and it takes (in my opinion) ridiculous amounts of time to fail over a Vlan when one of my Lans goes down (upwards of 5 minutes, when my PFSense was almost instant), but other than that, it’s been super solid.