A twas like a collab or rebrand?

To be fair there is a million of these wee units around the place. Probably a lot cheaper too.

You KNOW I want that OpenAI Codex Micro unit to turn into a Home Assistant control unit.

A small, cool unit with buttons and LEDs? Take my money.

Hi there. Yes, you pick one or the other protocol when you are setting up the device, but it won’t run both simultaneously. You could of course have two devices and run one protocol on each…

Quillpad is worth looking into.

Is it possible they are pressure plates for monitoring traffic, with a view to controlling traffic signals etc.

As opposed to the coils (some sort of charging thing for EVs)?

They might if it meant they could text again! 😁

They are using a dialler to phone the OP anyway!

Am I missing something here, couldn’t you install a FOSS dialler instead? Same for messages?

I shall pay it forward.

Good to know, thank you!

Cool. Didnt realise there was an option to buy a degoogled phone until I saw your post! I wish you well with it.

Buy from Murena or where?

I have a Conbee II also, running for about two years. I bought a ZBT 2 months ago with the view to moving to that, but then realised I was insane as I have a rock solid Conbee network with 60 devices and zero issues.

I have set up the ZBT as a Thread router instead to give me another protocol option. Waiting patiently for IKEA to improve their range of products!

I have a couple.of test products on it and all seems good.

That’s what I thought, hence the “I hope…”. I wasn’t hopeful with the “I hope…” 😁.

I just don’t trust nowadays that there are enough or sufficient safeguards for people, regardless of what way their data is stored. OK you might hold out and not give them your encryption key from your head, and on that singular point you technically win, but at what cost with the litany of other things you will be nailed for, as you have outlined. You can think about that win from your prison cell I guess?

Loss is almost predetermined in situations like this.

Most of this seems to relate mainly to the US, and I dont live there, but this shit is still frightening.

Thanks.

If I found myself in a situation where I had a key in my head and it was what they were looking for, I’d worry about what other ways they might screw me if I didnt give it up. They would find a way.

It’s all really bleak at the moment. First time in my 46 years of life that I’ve genuinely worried about how the world is evolving.

Thanks, appreciate the clarity.

I hope its as simple as that.

Exactly. And if the law doesn’t suit their needs, change it until it does.

The rules seem to be so loose and open to interpretation around privacy etc. What makes self hosted data different? Surely that’s not a major barrier to big tech, the government, the lawmakers etc.?

If they really wanted to, I’m sure they could just decide, “as of today we can take your self hosted data, so we will swing by at 4pm to collect it”. 4pm comes, they are at your door, what are you gonna do? They come and take your data, you know it’s wrong, what are you gonna do?

I just worry that even the holy grail of privacy, i.e. self hosted data, is going to be of little consequence to them. If people want your data bad enough, they will do wherever is needed to get it. Change laws? No problem. Reduce rights? Yep we’re in it. And so on.

It seems like the only truly safe way to store your data is by not putting it anywhere other than in your head.

OK thanks for explaining. I’ll do a bit more reading now that I know how to ask the right questions! 👊🏼

Interesting, can you tell me more about the official ADB method? I’m using Canta in conjunction with Shizuku which is using wireless ADB debugging.

They say it cannot be removed, but my Canta screens suggest that it has been removed. Roll on September I guess.

Countdown is on.