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  • Having worked in insurance before, I’ve had numerous officers stop in to our office to validate insurance cards because they’ve been doctored.

    How that works: person A signs up for a policy, pays the minimum pymt. Gets ID cards, stops paying after first payment. Policy is canceled but ID cards show valid date for 6-12 months. Person A then edits the document with new dates to show future proof of insurance without spending money. Might trick some initially unless you get into an accident.

    However, not everyone is so skillful at matching fonts or size, so often it’ll look like shit and be obvious its fake. Maybe the officer thought some database was surely more accurate, but should’ve done a little research first before issuing a ticket.








  • Waterfox browser, Privacy Badger, Port Authority. Usually private tabs, always-on VPN with Quad9 DNS.

    It rarely breaks sites, but occasionally captcha doesn’t work. That’s a privacy Badger thing that you can disable temporarily or for the site entirely.

    Then I test with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and might tweak additional WF settings.

    I also use Lineage OS, F-Droid only, no Google anything or any big tech. The “biggest” tech company might be Proton. But I like their mail service with custom domain support and SimpleLogin aliases.








  • Is this any better than CasaOS or ZimaOS?

    https://www.zimaspace.com/zimaos/download

    I took a chance and installed ZimaOS a while back, paid for premium so I could use more than 4 drives for my NAS, but it’s VERY clunky and not polished. Numerous times, I’d have services offline, an inaccessible NAS drive (SMB shares offline), and just utter OS/webUI unresponsive requiring a reboot.

    And If that’s not bad enough, Zima should simplify everything once you install an app, but required a lot of customization to setup and get functional especially for external access (NOT a fan of Immich on Zima IMO).

    I switched it up to Yunohost, and that’s been worlds better in reliability, accessibility, and functionality!

    This FreedomBox, what does it offer that so many others don’t?



  • Yeah, that’s one thing that kind of killed me. My One+has a great camera, but it’s mediocre with the stock camera on LOS. Thankfully open camera and libre camera help. Check them out in Fdroid first which is what I should’ve done.

    I’m going to see it I can take the APKs for the One+ apps from APKPure and strip the need for Google out of them so they’ll work in my phone again. I suck at writing code, but reading and modding I can do better.


  • I’m going to go out in a limb and die on it, that: why overcomplicate things with Docker containers?? I didn’t read through your post; The title, to me, doesn’t require it based on what you’re doing. I then read you’re Problem box and confirmed you don’t need NVR on Docker. Seems overkill or really, pointless.

    A. Do you absolutely NEED the VLAN for your NVR? Why not just isolate the devices on the network with a bogus DNS record or FW rule blocking via MAC or IP? B. Why run NVR through Docker? I hate devs who only containerize and don’t allow for options. Deal killer, personally. But it it has a native option, why not run that? It’s just extra steps for traffic to pass through which feels like a complicated bottleneck.

    Idk, you do you. I’m SURE I’ll get hate for this comment, but sometimes you need to take a steep back and think about what’s necessary vs what’s for fun for learning. I’d you can, hey great! If you can’t, or it breaks, how much time do you now want to spend learning how to troubleshoot?