Just grab an ELM327 Bluetooth OBD II adapter and Torque for Android. At night it can easily be used as a heads up display and if you get the window cling for the heads up displays you can use it in the daytime too. It won’t add or remove keys but it works great for data logging and diagnostics.
I’ve used older phones for a lot of things like that. I have a couple that I use for bedroom HomeAssistant controllers, along with a couple tablets for near the front and back doors. I have an LG V20 I have been tinkering with so that I can power it without a battery at all but that is a bit of a pain.
I have seen projects where phones have been turned into vehicle dash camera’s that once connected to WiFi will upload to the home server. There are a ton of other things you can do with an old phone if you just find a way to use it. The bad thing is that a lot of the older phones are stuck on the OS they have with no chance of another update or ability to change the OS for other uses.
If the bootloader can be unlocked you can do a ton of things like this. If not you are limited to using Termux and the packages you can install without roof permissions.
If you get to a certain number of people maybe. Or location or who knows what.
I have a YouTube page where I post scuba videos. I want to use it to fund a non-profit. I have two websites related to the video’s plus a Facebook, and a bunch of other sites. When I make a post on my site it sends a teaser post with a link to those sites. I don’t play anything. But I had to do a ton of jumping through hoops to do it. There are services that do this for a fee. Maybe the fee is for them to set something similar up. But from my understanding Facebook loves links because their crawler hits my site to take a snapshot of the post for their users, wink wink ai bots to crawl. It’s the same thing for Google. The more they crawl the more they gain in training data.
You’ll survive.
You can still get the Google Coral (both the USB dongle and M.2/PCIe versions), but Google has effectively abandoned the official drivers. You’ll need to use community-maintained DKMS drivers if you go with the PCIe version on newer Linux kernels.
If you want a modern alternative, look into the Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L M.2 AI accelerators. They plug right into an open M.2 slot and natively integrate into recent versions of Frigate. Keep in mind that these accelerators ONLY process object detection inference - they do not handle video decoding.
For video decoding, your OptiPlex 7070’s Intel CPU has Quick Sync Video (QSV). You can pass /dev/dri through to your container, and Intel iGPU hardware acceleration will handle decoding the RTSP streams with minimal CPU overhead.
If you prefer an all-in-one approach, an Intel or Nvidia GPU can handle both video decoding and object detection (via OpenVINO or TensorRT), but a Micro PC limits your physical expansion options.
Storing recordings on a TrueNAS share over NFS or SMB works just fine. Mount the NFS share directly in Proxmox or the VM host, then pass the directory through to your Docker container.
Not a bit. I just go grab an email address at minuteinbox.com
Then they get to send garbage to an email address I’ll never use again.
I also see no point in giving anyone a phone number. Not that it will do them any good since I block anything not in my contacts l list.
I’m carrying an S26 Ultra and wouldn’t mind if it was 3 times thicker. I regularly carry a Tab S8+ around when I am going to the store so I can look things up or take down ideas.
I also had one of the Motorola bag phones in the mid 90’s as my emergency car phone.
Would I carry around a bag phone today… probably not. I haven’t really spoken on the phone since April and it’s been about 2 years since anyone other than my other half has called me but I was tired of the junk calls so I turned off receiving calls from any number not in my contacts list.
The Motorola Droid. Full keyboard was amazing.
Before that the Nokia 6800. Tiny screen but still had a full keyboard.
I would touch the tip of my finger to my buddy’s nose and say, “Beep.” He would give me a look. I would do it again and he would do a little lip snarl. Do it again and it would get bigger. Eventually he would “snap” at my finger. He wasn’t doing it to hurt, I barely felt it, was just his little way of saying, “I got ya.”
He would also bark at women when they would sneeze.
He would also play with a rock in the kiddie pool.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hfnP4Kb6xbk?is=7D8SSsgEWEr2ttbU
Lost him to cancer 2 years ago. He was the only thing that kept me going when my wife passed in 2019.
Never used VyOS so can’t help there. I do use OpnSense, TP-Link Omada EAP-650’s (with an isolated vLAN for the guest network) multiple vLAN’s for cameras, iot, management, Trusted devices, and DMZ, along with Wireguard for remote access and since my ISP only gives me an IPv4 address I use a Wireguard tunnel to Route64 for IPv6 connectivity, a cellular connection for backup internet connectivity, CrowdSec, Intrusion Detection, Caddy, and UnboundDNS.
I used multiple different Router OS’ since around 2005 and settled on OpnSense years ago. I stick around because there is rarely an issue and the reporting system makes it easy to visually spot issues.
First, you need to verify whether you actually have a public IP or if your ISP has you stuck behind CG-NAT, because that dictates your options.
If you’re behind CG-NAT, Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared): This is usually the easiest path if you are mostly trying to access web-based services (HTTP/HTTPS) on your server. Your home server initiates the outbound connection to Cloudflare, so CG-NAT doesn’t matter. You just set up a domain (or subdomains) for each service you want to reach. If you need full network-level or SSH access rather than just web apps, check out ZeroTier.
If you have a direct public IP (even a dynamic one), you can run a reverse proxy like Caddy paired with a free DDNS provider like DuckDNS or FreeDNS. One nice thing about Caddy is that it handles getting and renewing real, valid Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates automatically, so you don’t have to deal with manual or self-signed certs at all.
Dealing with the WireGuard block, if your country’s ISP is using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to identify and drop WireGuard traffic, traditional VPNs like OpenVPN might get blocked pretty quickly too. If you still want a true VPN setup, look into AmneziaWG (it’s a fork of WireGuard specifically modified to scramble packet signatures and bypass DPI) or obfuscated proxy protocols like V2Ray / Xray or Shadowsocks.
Hardee’s: The Big Roast Beef Sandwich. One of the few nice memories as a kid. None where I’ve lived for a long while. Finally went on a trip where there was a Hardee’s and it’s no longer there. The BBQ sauce made it amazing. Now it’s just Carl’s JR with a different name.
Taco John’s: The Super Potato Ole… got it again on a trip years later, it’s cheap crap now. Again none where I’ve been living.
I’ve looked on Google maps a few times at the house where I was most of my childhood and it’s turned into a dump. Satellite view shows one area where it actually looks like trash has been piled up in one area and there are multiple broken down vehicles.
Yep. And it gets worse every year.
I avoid major areas every chance I get.
Too many people with the me me me, and whatever aditude on the road.
There was a lot of things wrong with his tips. I don’t remember everything as it’s been too long.
Edit: Adventures with Purpose. The lying pedo was a major scumbag. Met him once. Knew something was off.
Linus tech tips, after letting his son go through and pick parts to build a computer on top of everything else I just couldn’t stand it.
SV Seeker nuked everything so it’s not like I would watch it i could but I found the channel because of the build stuff.
Mike Patey, the man had money… yes he works hard. Some people can run on that little sleep. Then he pulled a derp and wrecked the plane on takeoff. Next I start seeing the new mansion build.
Abom79, again I loved the build videos. When my shoulder was healing and I had to sleep sitting up (which sucks so bad they had to give me ambien to sleep just 3 hours) I would watch his videos and get some naps in no clue why but watching the machining was so fascinating but it would make me nod off like a drunk redneck watching NASCAR. Pretty soon it’s let’s talk about my new tool that some company gave me. And vacation travel.
There was one where a guy in Asia built a house and cleared the land diverted a stream for water and Tools. Had the fish pond etc. No talking just doing things. Then his sister started a channel and things just flopped.
There have been a few others who changed their identity when they got popular. ___
It’s life… It’s also the reason why I try to live my life to the best of my abilities. I am trying to teach my stepson that you can not put off for tomorrow what should be today. You never know what could happen and where tomorrow will lead.
She died…
Becoming a widower at 40 sucks.
Then it’s probably time to switch boards. Anything that will expand drive connections will need a PCIe slot. Using an adapter that goes into an m.2 is probably going to have issues. Using USB based devices is asking for trouble.
Ahh I understand. I only have one vehicle that uses electronic keys so I bought an OBD II adapter from a place vs taking it to a shop. I highly doubt I’m going to get a different vehicle any time soon to need to add more more keys.