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Cake day: February 21st, 2024

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  • HP elitedesk or some other desktop can be had for cheap on eBay second hand. They will make decent servers. Install Ubuntu server or some other Linux flavour. Use docker compose to deploy services. Use tailscale to connect to these as others have suggested. Their docs on how to setup tail scale only ssh are really good. If you feel note adventurous you can get a domain and expose services via subdomains using cloudflare tunnels.

    But for your use in suggest tailscale for now. Add some storage into the machine and you are good to go. You can use restic backup to safely backup to a remote location like backblaze b2, another storage on your network, or any other number of options.

    That’s pretty much it, sounds so simple right? /s It will require some reading but there are usually ready made docker compose files for most projects as well as examples for restic. There are always multiple ways to do this but that’s close to what i do and it’s worked so far ™

    And just ask on this community if you get stuck.














  • I don’t do a full system backup, just data I need. I use restic to backup to B2 storage. As for docker data and databases I have a script that brings down the containers, runs a sqldump (or db type equivalent) into a tar.bz file and that gets backed up before bringing the containers back up. I used to run a Borg backup to a local drive and then rclone that to B2 so I have live data, local data, and remote. But these days I just back up remote and suck up the egress costs if needed.


  • Librewolf on desktop and ironfox on mobile. The prior for over a year and the latter a few months. Occasionally need to use something else on desktop that needs webgl or similar. I don’t want to change librewolf setting so I use something else. Usually a work related thing anyway


  • I recently made the switch myself. I do use multiple profiles but I don’t think it’s required for me. I was curious to see how it all works. I may end up switching to a work profile instead. I have google play on my main profile mostly for notifications for WhatsApp etc. A banking profile so that banking details are isolated, and anoyher profile for apps I need that I don’t use often and prefer to not have in my main. In a lot of videos its advsed to not use profiles to begin with as I causes a lot of friction and that makes adoption harder. You can always begin using profiles later on.

    I am not logged into GPS and it only has network permissions. I connect via NextDNS and there is so little background traffic in thw logs, it’s a refreshing sight.

    I have yet to find anything I could do on iOS that i can’t on Graphene. I install most apps via obtainium and the other few that I can’t via aurora store. I use OSS apps whenever possible.