“ What’s important to note is that this list is identical to those of the Facebook and Instagram apps. So if you use these other Meta products, you’ve already surrendered this information to the company.”
The camera size is already huge in iPhone 14 Pro that it doesn’t sit well on MagSafe Duo Charger wishing that they figured out a way to at least keep the size to how it currently is but it looks like there’s no getting around it. It looks like it’s gonna be bigger than 45mm Apple Watch at this point.
“I hate how much weight it adds to the top of my phone. Makes it feel unbalanced in my hand”
I doubt it does. I just used a fulcrum to find the center of mass on my iPhone 13 Pro and it actually seems like the lower half of the iPhone is a bit heavier, which makes makes sense given the internals of the device. That being said it’s off center by like 1/8 of an inch at the most so it actually seems well balanced. If you made the camera smaller it’d make the phone LESS balanced than it is.
I doubt that your iPhone is noticeably top heavy, if even at all. It just doesn’t sound like a plausible design flaw that Apple would somehow miss. It’s just too easy to compensate for any weight added by the camera module with the much heavier components located below-center of the device, like the battery. I was curious though so I measured my iPhone 13 Pro with an identically sized camera module as the 14 and my phone is actually very slightly bottom heavy, but the margin is also so small there’s no way I or anyone else could actually tell without measuring.
It might be more of a perceived effect than a physical one if anything. Like it feels top heavy because you can see the camera module but not the internal parts in the lower part of phone.
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
Whisker fatigue causes stress and overstimulates their senses. Using a flat bowl or plate will relieve this issue and allow your cat to eat all their food without stress....
My cat likes it when I cup my hand and cover the front of her face like a hand mask. Not sure why, but it definitely presses on her whiskers a bit and she doesn’t seem to mind either.
Just a side note that “not opening firewall ports” is not inherently a security benefit if you’re exposing the same service on the same port on the same host anyway via your reverse proxy setup.
If you were to measure your level of “security” on having ports open or not alone, then using Cloudflare tunnels could be considered worse, since an outbound VPN connection to Cloudflare is essentially circumventing your firewall’s protection entirely, meaning you’re effectively opening all 65,535 TCP and UDP ports instead of one, albeit only to Cloudflare.
There are benefits to using Cloudflare tunnels but “not opening firewall ports” is not one of them. And you could just as easily accomplish the same thing without Cloudflare by using a VPS and Tailscale with the selfhosted Headscale coordinator.
Selfhost headscale, run a reverse proxy with let’s encrypt on a VPS and Tailscale that VPS to your local server, utilizing Tailscale’s ACLs to block all ports except for your desired ones. It’s exactly what CF tunnels is doing but you have far more control over your data and security.
Not that I’m a fan of Facebook here but are you like, assuming Twitter wasn’t collecting your personal data? Also you use your Instagram account to log in to threads so by using it you’re not giving up any more personal information than you already were. Going from not using Twitter or Facebook or Instagram to using Threads might be a bad idea but if you already use any one of those three it makes zero actual difference.
Not that I’m a fan of Facebook here but are you like, assuming Twitter wasn’t collecting your personal data? Also you use your Instagram account to log in to threads so by using it you’re not giving up any more personal information than you already were. Going from not using Twitter or Facebook or Instagram to using Threads might be a bad idea but if you already use any one of those three it makes zero actual difference which big tech billionaire you’re giving your personal information to.
I just don’t think data privacy is even in the top 10 reasons why the average Threads user is on Threads. They’re on Threads because Twitter is getting worse and less usable by the day due to Musk’s erratic decisions, and Threads offers them something that’s functional, free, and not rate-limited.
I certainly don’t want to embrace threads due to data privacy issues, but I also don’t use Twitter.
Well that wouldn’t be the point here because the meme is comparing Twitter and Threads, not Mastodon/Lemmy and Threads. That’s why it doesn’t make sense lol.
Your plan is solid. The important thing is that you configure those things correctly, but you’re following guides so that should be ok. It’s on a VPS so there’s no threat to your home network, and none of those services pose a significant risk to you even if they were compromised so there’s no reason to go overboard.
If I had any further advice to give it’d be:
Change any default usernames and passwords that any of your apps/databases use.
Use randomly generated passwords for all service accounts. So that if you do find yourself compromised, they don’t then know a password that you’ve reused somewhere else (like your email account).
Run those services using something like Docker with no access to each other.
Utilize your VPS provider’s cloud firewall if they have one. If you’re paying for a cheap VM, it shouldn’t need to deal with all the general firewalling from the internet. VPS providers often have free cloud firewalls you can offload that work to.
I liked Audiobookshelf but the RSS feed kept breaking for me. I’d pull new podcast episodes for several days then it would fail and I’d have to recreate the feed. I wonder if they’ve fixed that yet.
Not something that would have to be on all the time, but more something that can be off overnight. This question feels like it has an obvious yes/no answer that I’m missing....
Pihole will have all your DNS requests routed through it at least, not all your traffic. But of course without DNS not much traffic is going anywhere anyway.
It would make sense to host something on your main machine if your main machine will be the only machine that needs to access it.
If you have any other devices that will use that hosted service, imagine how annoying it will be to try and use it, forget that you didn’t turn your main machine on yet today and you have to get up and go turn it on. And for what? What positive benefit would you get to counteract that inconvenience?
A privacy analysis of Meta’s new Threads app (proton.me)
“ What’s important to note is that this list is identical to those of the Facebook and Instagram apps. So if you use these other Meta products, you’ve already surrendered this information to the company.”
I think the camera size is getting out of hand on iPhone 15 Pro (iPhone 15 leaks) (lemm.ee)
The camera size is already huge in iPhone 14 Pro that it doesn’t sit well on MagSafe Duo Charger wishing that they figured out a way to at least keep the size to how it currently is but it looks like there’s no getting around it. It looks like it’s gonna be bigger than 45mm Apple Watch at this point.
Why would iCloud Private Relay break internet connection behind a network switch?
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
YSK: Cats don't like their whiskers touching their food bowl. This is why they beg even if food is still left at the bottom. (lemmy.world)
Whisker fatigue causes stress and overstimulates their senses. Using a flat bowl or plate will relieve this issue and allow your cat to eat all their food without stress....
ELI5 Cloudflare Tunnel (kbin.social)
So everyone is talking about cloudflare tunnels and I decided to give it a shot....
Threads is a bargain (i.imgur.com)
[Question] about the security basics
Hi there, I've been reading up on selfhosting for a couple of weeks now and I got my feet wet with a couple of things....
What are your most used selfhosted services? (kbin.social)
I'd probably have to go with Audiobookshelf and Kavita. Behind those would be Invidous and Immich.
YSK if you can't log in to lemmy.world delete your site cookies.
I couldn’t log in after last night’s hacker shenanigans. Deleting site cookies fixed the problem.
would it make sense to host something on my main machine?
Not something that would have to be on all the time, but more something that can be off overnight. This question feels like it has an obvious yes/no answer that I’m missing....
What are your list of essential iOS apps?
I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 
It’s true (i.imgur.com)