Even if you say to keep a local copy, I do not think it is truely an independent local copy unless you actually move it to “Local Folders”. Otherwise it is probably just a local replica.

No expert with IMAP, though I have used Thunderbird for decades, I have just switched to IMAP myself in the past year.

POP3 or IMAP? Desktop or Android?

If IMAP, are you sure your local folders are actually local?

Edit: By local I mean in the “Local Folders” tree not under your domain tree where the inbox is.

And yet the American people vote for this. Hard to get IRV through. Hard to get election finance reform. Both parties complicit but MAGA is blatant about it.

There tends to be truth in that You do not get mega weathy without stealing the money from someone either legally or otherwise.

Not all wealthy people are total crap though. Then there are those that were not great in thier earning years and then try to patch it up with philanthropy later.

Political salaries are more or less caped. It is campain financing that is the issue and lack of IRV. It is also the lack of some term limits or maybe age limits. We have too many fossils in congress that have not brought younger people along, Also too many old presidents, In my lifetime Reagon, Biden. and Trump were too old.

We also do not choose the best leaders Nixon was not capable at the end and Clinton was just inappropriate in the workplace those these were personnal issues. Then there is the question of which ones were even up to the job.

By in large, people are emotional creatures that sometimes think.

Reason I say that is that in my small little envelope of life, most people are both a lot more educated and a lot more on the thinking side then is typical. Everyone has issues and blind spots, but mostly people in my circles are pretty fact based. At least for me, it is a good reminder that I should not be surprised by stupid shit from the wider world in terms of what people believe and do.

A bunch of smart people built the internet, then we let an amalgam of opportunists and very average people use it, what can we expect.

Twitter is for those that want to be followed (aka those that want to be famous), and those that want to follow those people (be part of the hurd of fans). I do not understand it because fit into neither of these groups. However, it seems to be a common human thing. Seems very tribal. Being part of a group, elevating and worshiping some people, and wanting to associate with THE IN people. News media types seem to love twitter.

The point is a CDN is worth considering if your site cannot be down and it may be subject to high load or DDOS attacks. There are many CDNs.

If on the public internet, also consider how your going to integrate with a CDN like Cloudflair. With luck they will serve a lot of the load and provide the DDOS protection.

I think maybe qemu-img can do that depending on vmdk version. There are otherways too. They are all just disk images. One unknown, will the device drivers match well enought.

Is there a reason not to just convert the VMWare image to qcow2 and use that?

Is there anything different about installing OpenFyde compared to say Linux? If not why not just follow a Linux how to?

Just a couple of ideas.

Skip browsing YouTube, use RSS feeds of the podcasters you like. Also use Firefox with the uBlock Origin plugin to view.

Are we looking at the end of WordPress the FOSS CMS as we know it? Feels like another enshitification plan.

Be the way, I tried NativeAlpha. Really like it. One strange thing, F-Droid does not have it, IzzyOnDroid does but says not compatible. Finally grabbed it directly from Github with Obtainium.

Thanks.

Presumably one could install regular Google Play Services. One could just use a separate user if they allow that too. Separate phone is really cleaner.

Do they have their own app? If so try that. I know my city bus system has their own app. I think it will work with GrapheneOS, but I guess I’ll have to try someday.

Probably every App/Device is different, but I think you should be able to just install the app on the new device and re-pair. I know the Oxygen monitor I have was fine with that. A counter example, not sure about things like Chomecast… do thay need to be unpaired first if you move them to a new ‘Home’?

The bigger question is do you loose the data? If the data is all in the cloud and you have a user ID and pass, you probably don’t have to move the data yourself. If it’s on your device, then look for a backup/restore option in the App and move the data that way. Some apps have a special transfer procedure too (Signal, Libby, etc). If none of these, you may loose the data if you cannot find another way. For example “Hearing Test” an App I use explicitly prevents moving data unless you pay for the Pro version.

The other way to move apps (which I have no experience with) is App backup/restore as done by Google or through GrapheneOS with Seedvault but these tend to be limited to only same or similar OS/Device. That is App specific too in what the author allows as they have some choices of how they implement it.

By the way. Just curious. What were your issues with GrapheneOS or their team?

One thing I saw that I was not crazy about was moving away from Linux as a major goal. Micro Kernel… sounds like GNU Hurd like idea. Not that against it but why do it?

Regarding DivestOS. Yes, I looked at that. It is the #2 item on the list at privacyguides.org. There is also /e/ which I guess FairPhone uses. Then CaylxOS, LineageOS, and a few others. There was a nice comparison: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm .

Thanks for the App suggestion.

Regarding Google Play Services. Lot seem to have dependencies but may not require them. Some complain they need it and then go on to work just fine. Some like Signal say they will affect how they work – i.e. without Google Play Services, Signal has to run all the time in the background. Some say nothing and just work.

Interesting Lyft and Uber at the only two apps I know for certain require Google Play Services in my case. There are a few more I installed that may but those I wanted in the Private Space together with Google Play Services for other reasons. Otherwise I pulled more Apps (about 16 apps) from Google Play via the Aurora Store and they did not seem to need Play Services. Probably depends on the kind of apps your looking at.