Yeah, of course, it would be better in many ways if the firmware wasn’t closed.

And runs with an USB cable flashing other peoples ESPs to ruin everyone’s day

Open source stack will not prevent this. It’s not even a backdoor, it’s functionality that these researches think should be hidden from programmers for whatever reason.

Open source devices would have this functionality readily available for programmers. Look at rtl-sdr, using the words of these researches, it has a “backdoor” where a TV dongle may be used to listen to garage key fobs gasp everyone panic now!

If you have a bit extra money, get a seedbox. Cheapest I’ve seen is €10/mo

What do your people ask then? “Does it come in red too?”

Unless you live a very dynamic lifestyle that requires your calendar to be 24/7 synced, you can just use whatever server software you like, make it listen in LAN only, and have your devices sync when they’re at home.

DecSyncCC and Syncthing is another option.

I stay uninformed but in the rare times I want to be up to date, financial news sources are pretty good, they cover world news briefly and their kind of clickbait is easy to ignore - they don’t do rage bait but try to make you invest in something.

Maybe use a filesystem and syncthing this way? https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

Or you could use the free tier of some PaaS like
https://render.com/docs/free if you prefer a traditional approach. Just remember to make backups, if it’s free it can disappear at any time.

Balls, said the Queen, if I had two I’d be a king!

If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it’s literally the same.

If this was real, all three would be punished for asking stupid questions and then get the lowest grade for not finishing the assignment

Has there been any progress in self-hosting sync server since Mozilla abandoned the old version a few years ago and created a behemoth with some exotic database that requires lots of resources?

If only there was a p2p way to send people funds without anyone knowing the sender or the recipient…

There are so many cheap voip services that give US numbers. Jmp.chat is the one I know but there’s a lot.

Call your family on Whereby or Jitsi Meet. 10 years ago calling using a website could be a shock experience for non technical people, but by now I think everyone has used Zoom or MS Teams or something like that, so it should feel familiar.