You can slowly start making the switch over.

Thankfully, building your digital fortress doesn't have to break the bank when buying hardware.

Secondhand and refurbished marketplaces are great.

- Pixel 4a for $250. Great for flashing GrapheneOS on to.

- Thinkpad laptop for $350. Install a Linux distro and start learning.

- Dell Precision workstations going from $300. Install Proxmox. Run containers for File Server, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud, Media and more.

- Wifi access point routers going for $50-100. Flash open source firmware such as OpenWRT or FreshTomato. Give everyone in the home strong wifi connectivity.

All prices in AUD.

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You’re 💯 right. It has to be tackled in steps, slowly otherwise it’s very overwhelming.

It’s easy to trick yourself in to thinking it’s just finding replacements for a couple of apps, then when you start unraveling how much you’ve embedded yourself (especially when you’re sharing things with family etc) it becomes a bigger task altogether.

Low hanging fruit first, then one step at a time 🙏

Solid advice, zapped ⚡️

Here's a checklist I made that you can work through at your own pace.

This is awesome 👏

Good tips! The router one especially. All retail routers hijack your data. Open source firmware is a MUST. I love pfsense

what are your thoughts on CalyxOS as opposed to Graphene?

wondering if I should be switching from Calyx

Wow, never heard of Calyx. There are so many great options these days. Last time I messed around with Android the only real option was Cyanogenmod 😃

zapped you some sats ketan

Can you do a mesh network open source? I’ve found one router isn’t enough to reach my whole house