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  How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? It took me a while to figure out why many of my self-hosted services were intermittently failing to connect on my phone after updating to Android 17. I eventually figured out there’s a new ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK permission which means the “Nearby devices” permission is now required to access devices on the same network subnet. For an avid self-hoster, this can be quite a bit. I had my DNS configured so my public-fa...

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  Host all the things! Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT... I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven't even realised it yet.

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  A “per user” graph is not indiciative of the number of users, or any change in that metric. You cannot use this graph to determine any effect of the total user count.

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  I'm in my 40s, and have only ever dated within 1 month of my age.

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  GrapheneOS and LineageOS don't ship with any Google services at all, so Google's policies shouldn't affect them.

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  I haven't heard the song "Cream" by Prince in over 30 years, but my brain DJ just started spinning it as I woke up. It's on loop. Tomorrow will be a different song.

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  Not the strongest name. Sounds kinda weak. Maybe "Photographic Image Manipulation Program"?

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  They didn't look all that advanced... 

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  That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services. NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control....

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  Run a Win11 debloat script. It will remove a lot of privacy-invading windows components. Apart from that, install a browser that isn't Chrome, and use an ad blocker. Don't install any garbage that gives the Uni IT department any control over the device.

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  Motorola will probably want to ship a compliant* device in those regions. "So be it" may mean you'll just buy the device with stock AOSP, and a warranty condition that allows flashing GrapheneOS. Hell, you'd slip a piece of paper in the box with flashing instructions.

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  Okta Verify works fine on mine, if that helps. The only permissions are network, notifications and sensors.