Not even close from what I’ve seen, basic stuff doesn’t work right.

They can’t do it perfectly. But some things like list of plugins, sensor data, battery, connection, fonts installed, etc… don’t seem necessary for anything and could be removed.

Tor tries to make tor users all look the same as much as possible, but in the context of everyone using the internet tor is likely unique and stands out.

This is why using a local web proxy is a good idea

Do you have one you’ve used that I can look at for this?

From only thinking about it for a minute I’m not sure using a Linux x86 device vs a smartphone with a custom ROM changes anything, since all the traffic from websites, chat apps, etc is encrypted with SSL already. There could be other benefits I didn’t think of maybe…

IMO the best option is grab a google pixel, flash GrapheneOS, use a VPN, and only install open source apps that aren’t full of analytics. You can throw it in airplane mode if you don’t want to be tracked by the cell carrier.

A phone with graphene is also MUCH more secure than a Linux x86 device in terms of law enforcement searches or theft of the device. And is safer against malware and having your data potentially stolen.

Any android phone lets you disable the GPS and use airplane mode, so custom ROMs aren’t needed for that.

But de-googled ROMs do indeed have less/no data going to google, although the apps you install will be the same either way.

I don’t see how a hotspot for internet is going to be any different from using data directly on the smartphone.

If you don’t want it always on you can just enable airplane mode when you don’t need a connection. And turn off the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth if you don’t want those used for location stuff.

The GPS is usually part of the SOC.

But you can just turn GPS off in the settings.

There are tons of rugged smartphones out there, also some brands that focus on easy to repair phones.

The fact that they’re not well known kind of shows that the majority of the market doesn’t really care about those things.

That’s sort of how it works though isn’t it? If games at $80 are too much then less people will buy, profits will drop and publishers will either lower prices, or vanish and get replaced by ones that lower prices.

This was the browser that required an account to even start using, it was just ridiculous.

Number of external connections means little without context of the content and what they are for.

Zen also attempts to remove the telemetry that firefox has baked in.

But Zen also has features other than just vertical tabs that are really useful, like Glance.

Make sure you enable airplane mode too, even without a SIM it’ll still be connected to the cell towers.

Opnsense kinda has a webUI for HAProxy, but it’s also not very good.

I recommend learning the config files, since HAProxy is probably the best option for a HA load balancer.

Yes some, but the power consumption is extremely high. A cheap $40 PC with an i5-6500 CPU would out perform it at about 1/15th the power draw.

This thing is mostly just interesting to play with.

Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it’s often hard to get the funds.

when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup.

That’s essentially what Storj, Sia, etc… are for, they’re decentralized storage systems where users can contribute storage to the network which automatically distributes data over all the ‘hosters’.

It’ll do a reboot if there’s a bad crash of something important, I’ve had my S21 do that once or twice.