Lock him up!

It's 1984 for sure. Every devices listens.

I'm on the same boat 44" tv, from ages ago. Connected to my linux reinstalled asus chromebox. Freedom baby yeah!

Gray hair and debian on old Dell Latitude, yep that's me.

I have been running GOS for 5 years now on my pixel 4a. Planning to snag a new 9a during black friday sales. Hardware is fine, but I want security updates.

I run my banking through vanadium browser with non-foss 2fa app in a separate profile.

Facebook messenger works, but whatsapp nevers works properly for me. Trying to migrate friends and family to signal.

I mostly use LocalSend to transfer files between my computer and phone. Photos and folders are synced with my synology nas.

Summary: I'm happy with GOS, great battery life and no distracting ad-bloated apps. Can run most apps with google play in separated profiles.

I have the same problem with NixOS and Debian.

Currently every family computer and server in the house runs Debian 12 as a base. But the urge to convert everything to Nix one day still tickles me, who knows someday...

Yeah untrusted devices should run in a client isolated vlan similar to a guest network.

Replying from my pixel 4a with grapheneOS. Phone just works, friendly pocketsize and with proper fingerprint reader.

Our family runs Debian + gnome on all our desktop clients. The kids love minecraft and java version works perfect for their needs. Wife needs Libreoffice, Brave and printing.

That's why I hacked my robot and removed the phone home function. I used https://valetudo.cloud/ custom firmware for mine.

After several years I have landed on Debian with plain old gnome for my whole family. Boring as f***, but it just works. Currently untraining myself from opening my terminal on fresh boot to do pacman -Syu. Flatpacks have solved my need for updated software.

Lock him up!

Exactly my idea aswell. Take your time to optimize and strip down your base install, then it's easy to just clone your base in virt-manager.

Thanks for your experience, it's easy to forget have stable debian really are and glorify nix as the one config to rule them all. Backports and lts kernels vs a four weeks update window are miles apart. I should go back and enjoy all my systemd services and sync/backup scripts instead.

But the urge still tickles, hopefully I can contain it inside a vm :)

Wow a faraday cage is needed then... :(

Yep an isolated vlan with no internet access. Cast your media from a dongel or computer connected via hdmi.

A white, straight, male ofc it will Newsom that runs for dems 2028. Kamala for vp again perhaps?