Jul

I don’t like the idea of a third party doing MitM type intercepts. I want control over anything that sees my unencrypted data whether it’s web services or chat services, etc. So for me the VPS is worth it. But I do also use my VPS for some other services that use apps or other APIs that don’t allow for presenting the Pangolin/SSO login step, and aren’t too risky to have a bit exposed rather than the responsiveness and battery cost of the separate VPN connection. One day I need to find a better way to handle those but for now it’s fine.

I use VPS’s for things that need to be more internet facing as well as Pangolin for then connecting to a few of my home based services securely. IMHO, it’s not as good for things that require storing lots of data like video, though, since storage costs have exploded. And any private data I prefer to only have on servers I own, not a VPS. Only encrypted backups of critical data go to online storage.

I use netcup for most things though I still have one server on Hetzner that I haven’t migrated. Hetzner’s prices went up and server responsiveness went down, so I started moving away, though I also still have the storage box server there for backups as well as the one VPS.

Yeah, exactly…large. Bigger than the phone, definitely not going to fit inside the phone.

It’s not just the spike, but the battery is supplying more power than the adapter for sometime extended periods of time. It would take an expensive, or very large, capacitor bank to hold enough power to accomplish that for very power intensive apps. Capacitors are good at charging and discharging quickly and lasting many more cycles than a battery, but no where near the capacity.

What you really need to know is exactly how much power the battery can provide and adjust the power supply to be able to supply that on demand and just enough capacitor capacity to smooth out the initial spike until the power supply gets the power up. I haven’t done the research to know the exact amounts, but I have a lot of experience with electrical and electronics in general, both professionally and amateur. So I could probably build it if o knew the exact specs.

That or adjust the phone firmware to limit the processor and GPU speeds, but that’s only possible on some phones that have code available and a way to root it without some hardware switch killing the phone permanently.

Depends on the height of the steps and the person’s height and weight. At a certain point it begins to take significantly more effort to push down due to leverage, the position of the muscles, weight distribution, aerobic thresholds, etc. But this typically happens in an average person about when your knee passes the height of your waist, especially repeatedly. This is also why children or shorter people tend to get more tired climbing the same steps as taller people.

The standard height of stairs in most building code was typically designed to be ideal for the height of the average healthy male. But that isn’t exactly 100% perfect especially considering that it’s more important that every step is the same height all the way up a flight, or people will trip, and you can’t always divide the height exactly evenly as not all flights of stairs are the exact same height. But there also are a lot of steps that are out of code or are single steps or groups of single steps that have to fit a specific, uneven slope.

But in general, with steps in a modern building that is to code, your knee will have to come up to a height where you need to use more than twice as much effort on a two stair hop.