𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

The cover screen in my Flip3 is basically useless. It tells me the time. So I open the Phone every time I use it, dozens on times a day. It would be an under exaggeration to say mine’s been opened and closed 13,000 times since I’ve owned it.

I’ve also hard dropped it (waist-high, onto concrete, 3 or 4 times, and I’ve never had it in a case. I’ve always dropped it closed, though, and I think that’s contributed to how well it’s survived. If it had a bigger outside screen like the newer models, something may have broken by now.

This makes me want to take up smoking again.

Except… Marlboros. Yuck.

Now you know two who’ve had one. I’m typing on my Galaxy Z Flip3, which I bought in December 2021. No problems yet.

Maybe you drop it enough to really enjoy prison.

Your id is trying to tell you something.

They aren’t scared of woman. They should be scared of women.

In most cases, an average guy could be taken by as few as 3 average women – that’s a scientific statistic, based on my scientific person science feeling about how many average women it’d take to make me feel physically threatened.

You can throw all sorts of variables in there: is the guy an MMA fighter? Are any of the women fighters? Does anyone have weapons, from rocks or sticks, up to guns? Is one of the women Holly Holmes or Ronda Roussey? What if it’s Dwayne Johnson against Ronda Roussey, Holly Holmes, and Anne Mathis? Heck, I’d pay to see that fight. Dwayne’s not an MMA fighter, but all that mass and muscle is going to count.

Anyway, a reasonable small group of untrained women could fuck up your average untrained guy, especially if the women aren’t holding back; so, yeah, if he isn’t scared of a group of angry women, he’s an idiot, rapist or not.

🤝

Still a bit too upscale, though. I was thinking, top to bottom:

• semi-transparent green sun visor
• really work on that mustache; if it’s too full, thin it out until it’s scraggly and wispy
• the Marlboro logo idea is great, but I think here you have to sacrifice to advertise that you’re “The Father of the Bride,” complete with printed bow-tie at the neck
• Cargo shorts
• Calf socks
• Sandals, but not Birkenstock! Make sure it’s a cheap brand
• Don’t forget a profusion of temporary tattoos on your calfs and arms! Extra points if they look poorly done and faded.
• you can get black teeth caps that make it look like you’re missing teeth. Don’t skimp on accessories!

And, most importantly: a fanny pack.

I’ll admit, it’s mixing metaphors a bit, but at this point you’re shooting for more than just looking poor; you’re aiming beyond sheer embarrassment. You need to attain complete mortification.

Thanks!

Not longer than me, my friend. Not longer than me.

I haven’t used Authentik myself at all; Okta at one place I worked, but that was managed by the ops team so I didn’t have much to do with it.

Committing to LDAP is one thing; getting SSO is a whole other level of effort. Again, I have experience with LDAP so it seems manageable, and common enough to be worth setting up - does a large enough portion of OSS hosted software support SAML or OpenID or whatever to make setting up Authentik worth the effort?

I’ll re-iterate, I do not enjoy ops. I do it only because it’s slightly more important to me to have control over my data than it is to not have to admin stuff. I like lldap specifically because it’s a single executable, one or two really basic config files (requiring a bare minimum of understanding LDAP to configure), and one SQLite DB file - backing it up is, like, 3 files. This has huge value to someone like me, far exceeding the capability limitations of lldap vs OpenLDAP. If Authentik is just as easy, with minimum external dependencies, then I’m interested. If I have to install, configure, and administer and maintain PostgreSQL, redis, and a half dozen other external dependencies… then my family can live without SSO :-)

Yeah, what they said.

OP, invest in a UPS - cheap or less cheap - you can get them as big as your bank account, and they’re worth it. I tend to like Cyberpower for price, because they’re common enough that I’ve never found a model that nuts didn’t already know about, and they tend to have replaceable batteries. As parent said, the nightmare is if power goes out, and even though the laptop has a battery, you’re buying yourself extra time. Plus extra surge protection and all that.

I’m not probably saying anything you don’t already know, OP, but I feel there’s a general under-valuing of UPSes when I hear about people’s set-ups. They may mention a surge protector, but rarely do I see folks taking about their UPSes.

Caveat: this is not my area of expertise. However, I agree SSO is going to be the hardest part of this.

OP, you can use lldap to centralize authentication, so that each user had only one account and one password for all sites. It’s trickier to get each of these platforms to work together with SSO. For that, you’ll need something like Authentik (OSS SSO solution, like Okta) which you then back by lldap - Authentik handles the SSO and authorization part, and uses lldap for the authentication part. I suggest doing it in stages: install your servers, get them using lldap to log in, and then when it’s all working insert Authentik into the mix. Doing something like this and learning all the technology at once is boiling the ocean.

I’m recommending lldap over OpenLDAP because I’ve used both extensively, and OpenLDAP is a nightmare whereas lldap isn’t. lldap is trivial to install, and comes with a nice, simple user/group admin web interface, a sane default schema configuration, and is stupid easy to back up. Just getting OpenLDAP configured with the right schemas can take forever. If you’d said you already had a lot of experience with LDAP in general, then sure: OpenLDAP is capable and powerful. But it’s harder.

My one caveat about lldap is that I’m not sure that it’s possible to set up master/slave replication - or any sort of replication - which is probably not going to be an issue for your all-in-one set-up, but would limit scaling and failover if you ever get there.

I do rant a little about OpenLDAP because LDAP was in supposed to be lightweight OLAP, and yet is some of the most frustrating software I’ve ever had to deal with.

Again, I’m not a devops, or any sort of ops, guy, so my perspective is colored by the an attitude that ops is a necessary evil, and not something I love, so easier==better.

That’s what’s been stopping me; it has to at least be a decent phone, and it sends as if there’s always something.

Touch is supposed to run on the FP5 - I guess I need to find a functionality Matrix now.

It’s a joke?

Thanks for the info!

I just went looking to see what it ran and found this forum, which has a pretty comprehensive list.

I didn’t have much trouble getting Touch on a really old Pixel, but the battery runs down in 3 or 4 hours so I didn’t do anything with it. That’s probably more to do with the age of the phone than the OS.

Atlas shrugged, huh?

I did look at that one! Specifically for the non-Android OS support. I’m really interested in trying SailfishOS, but if one of the Linux-based mobile OSes works reasonably well (my issue in the past has always been terrible battery life), I’d be thrilled.

Do you have one? Of so, which OS are you running? How do you like it?

I can’t decide whether to encourage you and ruin another life, or warn you away so that you can retain the opportunity of time for healthy relationships, sunlight, and bathing.

Oh, you’re right, you did. Well, I agree. It’s a better metaphor about equality. Everybody pees, and breathes, and uses ATP. But pooping of more funny, so let’s go with that.

Ok.

I agree about KeePass. Self-hosted password store satisfies neither of my constraints. I’m (1) not sharing my credentials with anyone, and (2) SyncThing satisfies replication across devices. On top of both of those, in this particular case not self-hosting a server is added security, as my key store is never exposed on a public server. It helps that both KeePassXC & Keepass2Android’s DB merging and conflict resolution is outstanding.

I have, however, been contemplating getting myself a YubiKey, b/c my life gets a little harder of I lose my phone while traveling. I’d have to go through several steps to get into my home LAN to get passwords out of my kdbx, one of which involves a VPN secret key I don’t have memorized.

Anyway, yeah, I agree about that one. Publicly hosted password stores are not only unnecessary but - IMHO - kind of a stupid idea. Talk about maximizing your attack surface.

When faced with a furry, a fistful of Vicodin really is the only viable coping mechanism.