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dugite-code commented on Android/Linux Dual Boot wiki.postmarketos.org/wik... · Posted by u/joooscha

Ghoelian · a month ago

I don't recognise the 5g battery life issues personally. I do 100% agree the GPS thing is such a bad decision. It just becomes noise that no one pays attention to anymore.

I ended up using my public ip address in combination with a list of known ips for home and work and such, and building my HA automations around that. I wanted to do it with wifi SSID's, but that also requires the location permission and triggers the indicator (which is understandable, just wish I could still read SSID's with location services disabled entirely) (or, just let me disable the gps antenna and leave everything else).

dugite-code · a month ago

It certainly could be something else other than 5g but it's one of the first things that gets thrown around when battery drain is mentioned and the mobile internet was the main user of power on the phone.

dugite-code commented on Android/Linux Dual Boot wiki.postmarketos.org/wik... · Posted by u/joooscha

palata · a month ago

> No normal user is going to be happy with Grapheneos.

I am a normal user, extremely happy with GrapheneOS. I just don't use HomeAssistant, which seems to have been your dealbreaker in this case.

I genuinely don't see a difference between Stock Android and GrapheneOS, except that I get more updates and I have more privacy controls (like scopes, but honestly I haven't had a need to use them yet).

dugite-code · a month ago

You are very fortunate for not hitting any edge cases, but sorry anyone commenting here typically isn't anywhere near to what you could call a "normal user". I ran into quite few minor issues with the enhanced security settings, my partner would never been able to figure out the solution to that issue and I consider them a normal user.

Not to mention the 5g battery drain is a hard show stopper, not just Homeassistant issues. I even experimented with different apps like owntracks but same problem with GPS.

I found a solution to the GPS icon but it requires an ADB command so not a great fix.

dugite-code commented on Android/Linux Dual Boot wiki.postmarketos.org/wik... · Posted by u/joooscha

charcircuit · a month ago

That's already happening today.

https://grapheneos.org/

But for the reason an antiquated os like postmarketos are suggested is that the project is being opportunistic thinking this is a chance they can be relevant. Additionally, the population of HN has more sentimental view on these legacy operating systems and view it as a chance to go back to the past and use software they are familiar with.

dugite-code · a month ago

I really wanted to like Graphene OS but I ended up bouncing off it due to a few major pain points that badly effected battery life.

- Using the default 5g setting resulted in far worse battery life than stock, telling people to choose 4g isn't a solution. They desperately need something like the adaptive connectivity service.

- Using Homeassistant's GPS tracking feature just destroyed the battery life, even switching to 4g didn't solve this issue. Changing all the GPS settings didn't help either.

- The obnoxious green GPS active icon makes the notification bar useless if using a GPS tracking app (or even gps navigation). The request for a whitelist was either ignored or rejected, the teams communication can come off a bit rough.

No normal user is going to be happy with Grapheneos. From what I've seen postmarketos is much more user friendly.

dugite-code commented on Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go github.com/opencloud-eu/o... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

NoMoreNicksLeft · a month ago

If it does webdav, it automatically does passwords. My password manager has otp anyway. Calendar's important, but I'm pretty sure that it (and contacts) are also just webdav.

Notes though... ouch. I can't find anything for that, there's no decent Notes client that does webdav natively.

dugite-code · a month ago

Calendar and tasks uses CalDav and contacts are CardDav. Very similar to WebDAV but have their own idiosyncrasies.

The biggest issue is the web interfaces, there are a ton of edge cases that has taken Nextcloud years to work through.

Not to mention the exploration of wedav push by the Davx5 team https://manual.davx5.com/webdav_push.html.

For notes I currently use obsidian with the remotely-save plugin https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save

dugite-code commented on Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies

StarGrit · a month ago

But the cleaners do more than the floors. Vacuuming takes me about 20 minutes once a week. I don't really see the point when I live in a 2 bed apartment.

dugite-code · a month ago

I was surprised to discover that if you run the robot vac once a day or even every second day it significantly reduces the amount of dust that ends up on other surfaces.

You just schedule it and forget it. As everyone says it doesn't do as good of a job as you do but the main benifit is it's consistent about doing that job more frequently.

dugite-code commented on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/11/... · Posted by u/rpgbr

dugite-code · 2 months ago

In my experience the bottle neck for any nextcloud install is typically the database.

Unlike many other projects it's surprisingly easy to get in a situation where the db is throttling due to IO issues on a single box machine. Having the db at on a seperate drive from the storage and logging really speeds things up.

That and setting up a lot of the background tasks like image preview generation, redis ect properly.

dugite-code commented on Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation valetudo.cloud/... · Posted by u/freetonik

dugite-code · 2 months ago

Been running this for years. Absolutely fantastic, my vacuum has never touched the "cloud" and yet I can still run it remotely (or with "smart" run automations) via Homeassistant.

It's the way IOT should be

dugite-code commented on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive github.com/linagora/twake... · Posted by u/javatuts

aborsy · 2 months ago

sudo snap install nextcloud

That’s all!

Auto updates and I can bet it will not break.

dugite-code · 2 months ago

Snap isn't the best experience for Nextcloud in my experience, fine for a demo or a single user instance that isn't mission critical. Users who expect more out of it will often bump up against its limitations.

Anyone who wants to seriously use Nextcloud should look into the AIO docker containers or rolling the individual containers themselves. Nextcloud has expanded into a full groupware stack and it's expected you have an actual admin managing the system like with any real deployment of enterprise software

dugite-code commented on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive github.com/linagora/twake... · Posted by u/javatuts

juchilov · 2 months ago

Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.

dugite-code · 2 months ago

Nextcloud suffers from flexibility, it's got a lot to offer but requires dialling in to your specific use case, the mistake most admins is to assume you can just run it without tuning, it has too many differing options to do that smoothly out of the box.

The ability to just run it in a snap has really contributed to this imho, Nextcloud is enterprise software you just happen to be able to run in your homelab.

dugite-code commented on Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab github.com/FarisZR/knocke... · Posted by u/xlmnxp

akerl_ · 2 months ago

The point being made is that unless "what you want to achieve" is "run a tool that isn't improving your security posture", port knocking isn't providing value to the security model.

Hence the cargo cult.

dugite-code · 2 months ago

I can't agree that it's "a tool that isn't improving your security posture", if it's a layer on top of other tools, you might argue it's effectiveness isn't great but to say it's effectively nothing is a reach.