Separate devices provide reliability and supportability.
If your all-in-one device has issues, you can’t remote in to maintain it.
Take a look at what enterprises do: redundant external interfaces, redundant services internally. You don’t necessarily need all this, but it’s worth considering "how do I ensure uptime and enable supportability and reliability? ".
Also, we always ask “what happens if the lone SME (Subject Matter Expert) is hit by a bus?” (You are that Lone SME).
To be fair, the pro plan is for the non-local stuff, which is at least understandable as domains and resolution services are non-free.
Also ongoing development takes resources. Seems like a reasonable approach.
I say this as someone who absolutely despises subscriptions.
Put it in a VM using any of the current free virtualization products: 86Box, VMware Workstation, etc.
This is the answer.
I’ve used them for close to 10 years. Started because one phone had a touchy port. Glued the adapter in the right position and never had a problem.
Lol, a year!
That’s kind of telling about what it takes to cause a problem.
Im the same, port up so I can pull it out one handed and use it.
My 7 year old Dell SFF idles at marginally higher power than my Pi zero W. I’ll take the trade off.
Or OP could ask Mr. Owl. 😁
I’ve eaten in US restaurants that rival restaurants in Paris.
I’d say the average restaurant in France is definitely better than the average in the US - but this is comparing apples and oranges.
New Yorkers would actually take offense at this question: they believe they have the best restaurants in the world (I don’t agree, but they have an argument given the great variety of immigrants that settled there since before the US existed).
Hahaha, I’d laugh out loud at the nurses station!
You sound angry
You sound confused. You should show this chat to your boss, ask their opinion.
Right?
Drives me nuts that we don’t have a good system for restoring a phone to exactly where it was.
Years ago I would have my phone reboot to TWRP, create an image, then reboot to Android and sync that image to a server (weekly). So app backups daily with Titanium, then full system image weekly.
All you ever wanted to know about washing clothes: https://laundryevangelist.com/
Use less detergent than you think you need
This can’t be said enough. You typically need 1/4 or less than what’s on a measuring cup.
And make sure your water is at least 65°, which is where the detergent becomes more effective.
Also, clothes don’t need to be washed every time they’re worn, depending. Like jeans rarely need washing. Underwear, t-shirts, socks, that sort of thing need to be washed all the time.
All you ever wanted to know about washing clothes: https://laundryevangelist.com/
If you stop using original roms this isn’t an issue as it’s part of Play Services.
Not using Play Services is the key.
Lineage and Graphene don’t have Play Services by default.
That’s the tough part, and why FDroid is pushing hard on this too - basically all phones have Play Services.
Damn few of us flash Lineage or Graphene and run without Play, and damn few phones allow flashing anymore.
Fortunately Graphene is working on their own hardware. Looks like it’s time for me to stock up on every kind of flashable phone I can find.
The lack of backwards compatibility is a major issue too. Many of my apps are fine - I don’t need updated versions despite everyone screaming “you’ll get hacked using old software”. I have some stuff on my phone from 2010, and far older on my PC. This “hack” is just repeating the party line for orgs like Google to keep pushing us to newer devices.
Haha, tell me you bought this!
Give us an example of what you want as the end result - what devices you have, are you sharing calendars with someone else, etc.
My best answer is to run a calendar server on some machine and let your calendar sync to that whenever the devices are online on the same wifi simultaneously. (E.G. Run Owncloud in a docker on your laptop).
Alternatively you could run Tailscale on the devices which would provide a secure mesh network, eliminating the need to be on the same wifi - so long as they’re online they can sync via Tailscale.
Tailscale even has a feature (Funnel) that will route specific internet traffic into your Tailscale net - this would eliminate the need to have Tailscale on every device. You could host a calendar on a laptop (say Nextcloud in Docker with Tailscale), enable Funnel only for the calendar port, and apply security in Tailscale so only you have access.
Crazy but true.
That’s the price of my work laptop from the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
I’ve found VM’s take up less space than a standard install.
My largest Windows VM is currently 73GB, and it has a bunch of stuff installed.
My smallest is 11GB, and that’s Win10Pro.
I just setup a Windows Server VM for testing, and with a base install the VM is 13GB.
Can you virtualize Windows instead of dual boot? KVM is excellent virtualization these days, and my Win 10 Enterprise VM is all of 16gb 26gb. (Typo)
Exactly, keeping components separated, especially the router.
Hardware routers “cost money because they save money” (Sorry, couldn’t resist that movie quote). A purpose-built router will just run and run. I have 20 year old consumer routers that still “just work”. Granted, they don’t have much in the way of capability, but they do provide a stable gateway.
I then use two separate mesh network tools, on multiple systems. The likelihood of both of those failing simultaneously is low. But I still have a single failure point in the router, which I accept - I’ve only had a couple outright fail over 25 years, so I figure it’s a low risk.