Its nice seeing a transit station thats along a pedestrian area as opposed next to or in-between 6 lanes of vehicle traffic.

Transit and transit station should always bring people as close to where they want to go as possible. Example having a station next to a malls entrance or directly underneath, or having a subway that connects directly to a airport terminal.

Oral B has been my go to electric brush.

Had a Oral B Braun circular brush for about 10 or more years. Excellent brush and honestly it could probably still last for a few more years, but decided to finally upgrade to a Oral B IO sonic brush.

Both are great and better then a regular brush, but I do prefer my sonic brush versus the original electric brush. Both have the same circular brush heads which is what I would recommend going with.

No need to click the link, I justed added it so people that are not aware of what Inito or Mira can get a sense.

Anyways what I am looking for is a complete local alternative to Inito or Mira. These are fertility monitors that track a few different items (the article gets into it a bit better then I can explain my self).

I have been searching online for different monitors but honestly it looks like nothing exists, at least in the North American market that comes close what these two monitors offer.

I was really hoping that the people here in this community would be willing to help out like I myself occasionally do. Obviously not everyone knows every product out there, but maybe there is one or two of us on here that might know of something or point me in a direction.

Like stated before my biggest concern is the two fertility monitors that I found here send their data to the cloud, and their policies say this information can be used for target ads. This is a huge red flag for me.

Have you seen any similar products like the two on the article I linked too? Something that’s fully local and privacy respecting or preferably self-hosted.

The article is not mine (not sure why some people think so), but something that I linked to give people a sense of what devices I am looking for.

I can’t believe people in their community are downvoting an ask for help on here lol?

I’m just more concerned that the app actually sends data out to a 3rd party and uses it for marketing and targeted ads.

You are right though no subscription, but that means the company makes money on the metadata collected as well as the hardware sales.

I have been looking for something that’s more privacy oriented and self-hosted in that data is only stored locally on the home network or phone.

Is anyone in the community aware of any local, offline, or self-hosted alternatives to products like these?

I was reading the privacy agreements on both and both collect and sell data. Inito seems better but it still says it will use collected metadata to sell targeted personalized ads.

I have no netbird experience, but if it’s just like wireguard can you split tunnel instead of full tunnel to your friends network?

I think with a split tunnel you should still be able to access his network and resources?

I’m not asking for a invite

I am in the same boat as you, Google broke Assistant very slowly over the last year or more. I mainly used it for navigation when in the car, or on a bike, and when at home to control various “smart switchs” and other IoT devices.

Its been a pain TBH, but its kind of helped with my slow de-googleing of products and services I use. Though like you said this could essentially become a hobby as there is no one fit-all alternatives.

I have yet thought to find a way to replace voice Navigation in any of my alternative Map apps, but most of everything else has been replaced slowly.

Where I would suggest starting is looking at this video as a example of what’s possible with Local Assistants and models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjuEHTKXMw

(You don’t need the fancy “robot” shown in the video but you do need mic’s and speakers for voice controls around a house. You can also use your phone though)

If you do “smart home stuff” look into HomeAssistant and the various integrations for voice controls. Home Assistant also has something called Music Assistant where you can integrate your Spotify and local music library, then with voice commands you can request certain tracks be played.

HomeAssistant basically becomes your “unified environment of services” where everything becomes “integrated together”. Things like smart switches, your calanders, notes, weather forecasts, music, presence detection, so now you can ask your voice assistant questions and get responses like the weather is sunny, or the kid is home.

For sure, I suppose the point I was making is everyone’s version of the “American Dream” can be different, and people should not feel the need to be always “keeping up with the Joneses” in a sense.

The “American Dream” is propaganda. Typical single family home in the suburbs, and a “traditional family values” family.

What is “The American Dream”?

It always seems to be portrayed idealistically as a single family home in a car dependent suburb. A large driveway, and massive front lawn with a white picket fence. Something like in the image below.

Almost all these similar photos have a “traditional family values vibe”, white family, stay at home mom, two kids of different genders. Honestly it all just screams propaganda to me.

On top of all that when you “zoom out”, that typical “American Dream” becomes a car dependent hellscape ike the one below. With no way to get around.

I don’t know, but not everyone has a wish to live in a place like this. Give me walkable transit oriented mixed use neighborhoods with “missing middle” housing types any day.

Throw in “third-place” public areas where I can hang out with friends and family outside of home and work. Give me regional trains between cities, subways and trams, dedicated bus infrastructure. Give me safe cycling networks and dedicated trails. Give me city parks and fresh produce markets I can walk to.

To shreds, you say?

That was hilarious, but I was thinking more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_AClH99tM

To many ICE agents must have been going to the washroom with the gloves still turned on.

I wish there were some viable “fully cooked” alternatives. I won’t touch apple products with a 10 foot poll, and I owned the first and second iPhone.

As for Linux phone i have tinkered with it but its nowhere close to being a daily driver, yet.

Strangely sometimes I wish the Microsoft phone was not a total flop…

I guess the only thing left if a completely dumb phone, but that does not help if you use your phone more as a “pocket computer” then a phone at all.

I’m in the same boat as well, for some reason my music apps can’t seem to see my Google smart speakers, but strangely they can see my Nvidia shield and cast to that.

Looked through my app permissions I honestly can’t see anything out of the ordinary or plainly obvious. Both my speakers and android TV (shield) are on separate segment VLAN.

As for granting the permission, I generally like to grant on a app by app basis, lots of apps ask for internet access as a example but don’t actually require it to function. All my game apps for example are completely offline.