Joseph DeFazio ☑️ @joseph@fosstodon.org

#TrueManila - Adopting Rian Update

I met with my lawyer about getting special power of attorney of Rian, to essentially adopt her with parental consent without it being an "adoption".

This is because the alternative, DSWD, has no guarantees, and if it weren't decided in my favor, we would lose her.

Unfortunately, SPA wouldn't work really because in the Philippines, the parents cannot sign away their parental rights.

We're trying to find other options before continuing with DSWD.

Hi, I'm Joseph. I'm 25 years old, a #business owner; #OkayRelax, #American, married, have 2 kids & a dog, & living in the #Philippines.

I'm a #hackintosh user that enjoys #webdev & deploying #selfhosted alternatives to popular services - my latest being #Mattermost.

I came to PH for vacation & ended up not wanting to leave after doing #charity work with #TrueManila. Now I help kids living in poverty & my wife & I are trying to adopt one - an 11 year old girl named Rian.

#introductions

It turns out that CJ's biggest issue is pneumonia. He needs to be admitted for 5 days, but it's very expensive at the hospital we're in so we're transferring to a different hospital soon.

This is CJ. He's 4 years old and lives on the street. He has a wound on his head and someone poured coffee on him, so he has a large burn on his leg. My wife and I are on our way to the hospital with him now. #TrueManila

I've found a condo that fits my budget, is in the perfect location, and has enough space for all of us.

The issue with it is that all the windows face a wall, so there's no view and not so much sunlight.

It checks so many boxes, but that one issue feels so major to me. I feel like with living in a country with a low cost of living, I should be able to buy my dream home, but condos really aren't that cheap here.

I feel like maybe I should wait for something else, but then I might lose this one

I need to get 2 computers set up for my kids to do school work on. They only need a web browser.

What I'm considering:

1. A raspberry pi + $50 monitor + $30 keyboard + mouse combo

2. A cheap laptop/chromebook

I feel like the first option is less likely to break, because my kids won't be walking around with it, but the second option might be a better value.

Opinions?

Finding out that some of the kids you're helping have turned to prostitution is rough.

KeePass users that aren't using official KeePass, what makes you confident in the project you decided to use? A lot of them, like KeeWeb, aren't very active. It makes me question the security of using them.

Taking Rian to her out-of-home school in a tricycle. Sleepy and need to shave. Also, I realized that my Tagalog sounds more white when I'm shouting it at a tricycle driver over the loud construction noise. Foreigner problems...

Just installed QuteBrowser to see what you all were talking about. Not sure I get the appeal. What about adblock and password managers?

Favorite Android game? Lately I've been playing a lot of PUBG.

@mike why Vivaldi instead of Firefox? I have it installed but I haven't given it much use yet.

I was bit by a centipede a couple of hours ago. I don't recommend it. 1/10.

I spent my day learning about lead generation even though most of my team is already experienced with it. I think it's important to understand it myself if I'm going to consider implementing it into my marketing practices.

There's so many methods, but I think I've finally settled on one that makes the most sense to me. If I have any luck with it, I'll share more info for my fellow business owners.

@kev have you had any luck finding a new mail service? Mailbox.org is giving me problems now.

Trying BlackBerry Keyboard on my phone. SwiftKey was giving me some lag issues even after installing an older version that I had thought fixed it. Now I'm trying to find a good alternative that supports multiple languages.

LineageOS hates me. I haven't been able to install the past 3 updates. They install and then my phone won't boot, and I have to flash the last working update again.

#TrueManila - Adopting Rian Update

I met with my lawyer about getting special power of attorney of Rian, to essentially adopt her with parental consent without it being an "adoption".

This is because the alternative, DSWD, has no guarantees, and if it weren't decided in my favor, we would lose her.

Unfortunately, SPA wouldn't work really because in the Philippines, the parents cannot sign away their parental rights.

We're trying to find other options before continuing with DSWD.

Switching away from Gmail has made it easier for me to stay at inbox zero. I never realized how much the tabs for "promotions" and such made me leave emails to pile up.

I hired a private teacher to teach my kids in my house 5 days per week. Things like this just aren't possible in the USA, without being rich. It's just one of the many reasons I love living in the Philippines.

@h4ck3r9 You should use CloudFlare so that your website isn't exposing your home IP. A DDoS attack against your site would kill your home network.