Holidays are over, but the mission has just begun. 🏰⚡️

While others were resting, I was busy getting my hands dirty—studying, learning, and building my own "Invisible" infrastructure on a recycled 2017 Acer laptop. True digital independence is a skill you cannot delegate; otherwise, you'll always choose convenience over freedom. 🧠📚

Here is the progress report on my stealth stack:

🔐 Identity & Encryption (PGP): I’ve taken control of my PGP Key Pair. Strategic advantage? Google Drive is now just "dumb storage." Sensitive docs are encrypted locally before upload. Privacy now depends on math, not corporate promises.

👻 Privacy Layer & Stealth Stack: Consolidated a local ecosystem to kill tracking and secure metadata:

AdGuard Home: Network-wide DNS filtering. dnsleaktest.com confirms my house now communicates exclusively with 2 encrypted/secure DNS servers. My ISP is officially blind.

Vaultwarden: Sovereign management of passwords and WebAuthn Passkeys.

Syncthing: P2P cloud syncing all my devices without central servers.

⛓️‍💥 Financial Sovereignty: With a new 2TB SSD installed, I’m finally in the game. Currently at 15% of the Bitcoin blockchain sync. Once finished, I’ll fire up the Lightning node and look into setting up a WatchTower.

🤖 The AI Mentor: Ironically, I made heavy use of Google Gemini—a centralized and "noisy" LLM 😅. However, thanks to deep learning, I was able to quickly source info on what I was putting "under the hood." I used AI as a driver to validate my hypotheses on the robustness and invisibility of the solutions I was deploying. 🤝

The lesson from these holidays? Stop being a passive user and start being an owner. The road to 100% is long, but the view is beautiful.

Goal for 2026: Dive even deeper. 🚪🚫

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