Totally get it. Family should be a big deal, I wouldn't cut them loose for the extreme privacy, but I probably would prioritize only chatting when I'm not working or driving or something, like most do anyway.

Tell me about it, I just probably had more time on my hands man, it was brutal just getting this far with the 6y/o junker device I have now.

I remember growing up playing the answering machine back to see who called and making a list to call them back. The only time you could talk was when you were at home or work. Anything else wasn't possible. You'd change the message if you were going somewhere, change it when you got back. And if you didn't answer people weren't upset. Miss those days.

Not much of a Blake Shelton listener but Austin comes to mind every time I think of this stuff :)

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I do think that I'm moving more in that direction.

My vision is for my phone to only be connected to a home server, so that all the data is going to hardware I control through I tunnel that I also control. That has some vulnerabilities and some tradeoffs, especially since I do want to live in the mountains and I might not be able to do that due to connection speeds alone. (I refuse to use starlink.)

I'm honestly not sure what my tech future looks like. Some of my more ambitious ideas are clearly out of my ability.

The future of tech is going to happen with or without me. At least if I can put some effort in I can maybe change some things.

Sometimes I think not all problems need to be solved with more technology you know. Like maybe we had it figured out as best we needed.

Yeah and I think more self hosting movements like umbrel and start 9 self hosting may be the future. We tried once in the late 2000s early 2010s but the software just wasn't there imo. It's cool to see VC funding investing into self hosting. Hopefully I won't look like a fool for being hopeful!

I don't think you'll end up the fool in this case. I'm just a fool since I try too much, too soon and can't get anything to work. 🙄