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Traccar - a GPS tracker.

It tracks devices around on a map and records stats about them. Used by fleet managers to monitor thousands of vehicles simultaneous, and also people like me with just two. The interface is a little quirky, but otherwise it's a very solid and capable program. It shows a web map with live positions of the devices, battery state, speed, direction and other datapoints.

My wife and I like to know where the other is because we both do dangerous shit solo. (She horseriding, me motorbiking, and we've both got health conditions). I get notifications when she enters any number of geofences, and can see where she is at any time - and vice versa. This has eased anxiety for both of us.

Initially we used Life360 which is a nice and easy app to use. Then we found out that they sell your information to actively work against you. Not just basic stuff for advertising, but your driving habits, speed, style, accelleration rates - to car insurance companies so they can raise your policy costs, or potentially deny your claim entirely. (Just one reference but there's heaps more)

So we went self-hosted. Traccar is free and I keep our information private. Install a small app on your phone and register it, and done. Or it integrates with dozens of commercial and open source tracking systems.

Disclaimer - not involved with the project, just a user and a fan.

(Just noticed my wife's left her phone behind when she went off riding... I guess no system's perfect!)

Agree. I use it just for GPSLogger - the best tool for logging and sharing comms ever written. So good, Google made it impossible to list on the play store, and F-droid allows me to continue using it easily.

Yep, absolutely.

Although when doing so, that would make your regular PC a server. Doesn't stop it continuing to be a regular PC as well.

You need a way to connect to your home server from the internet, yes. You can do it easily using cloudflare tunnels or using one of the many vpn systems for your phone.

Look into Syncthing if you have a home server - very easy phone backups that cost nothing.

A lot of people have made it their main income. Whether you or I think that's good or not is irrelevent, but it does mean hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans will lose their jobs as a result of this.

One found in the UK - and seized because they're illegal here.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-seize-tesla-cybertruck-manchester-elon-musk-illeagal/

America does not care about truth. Worse, it actively discourages truth.

Lying is accepted. Making up facts that suit your narrative and shouting down anyone who disagrees gets you rewarded with the highest position of state.

We, the rest of the world, are just watching you guys in horror.

That's good to hear, but honestly, I'm amazed he's still alive.

If they don’t have an online presence and neither do their peers, how would they be cyber bullied?

Fun fact, I was called by my bullies on my parents landline and bullied when I was a kid in the 1980s.

Bullies are gonna bully - the method varies but never the motive.

The Qur'an?

You speak like they want to progress.