I've been beating the privacy drum for years and all my friends think I'm a tinfoil hat nut. But this shit is real.
It takes a lifestyle shift to fight back but you can do it. I use GrapheneOS on a pixel. Linux on all my computers. I host a server with services that replace centralized services.
Awesome! What services do you host for yourself and what tools do you use for them if you don’t mind my asking?
All kinds man. I have a pretty ridiculous homelab set up simply because of who I am as a person (and engineer).
My data (~120TB) is stored on a Synology NAS and I have a r610 with dual Xeons 32 threads and 192GB of RAM which does my compute. My service stack is all in Docker.
For services I have:
- Wireguard VPN for connectivity away from home
- Bitcoin infrastructure (core, lnd, lnbits, mempool, explorer, joinmarket)
- Matrix/Synapse for encrypted & private comms
- nostr-rs for Nostr relay
- Hugo static site generation for several different sites/blogs I run
- Pihole for blocking trackers/malicious things
- Documents, photos, drive are all Synology because their software is really good
- Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr stack for media
- Plex for video consumption
- Navidrome for audio media streaming
- Vaultwarden for password management
- Gitea for code repo
- FreshRSS for RSS fetching
- Hauk for location sharing with friends/family
- ihatemoney for expense sharing/tracking
Those are my most used. There's also a smattering of other things I'm POC'ing or just playing with not really worth mentioning.
It's not perfect. For example, I want to get away from Plex but Jellyfin has not been a viable alternative for me yet. But all in all I feel I have a great mix of convenience, privacy, self sovereignty and capability.
I haven’t found a reliable alternative to Plex either… but I’m hoping I may be able to contribute to that at some point. Hopefully this year.
