Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.
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Every person who switches to Linux I see on Lemmy is a win
I started self-hosting! I got Nextcloud and Grocy set up! Jellyfin too, but I got some small issues to work out. Next up is, a workout application and home assistant. I'll be transferring all my cams and stuff to HA. My whole family uses Signal, which is pretty cool. And I'm about to take the Graphene plunge, but I haven't ROM hacked in years. I hear it's super easy with Graphene, though.
Graphene is more than easy. It's a browser based install with a USB cable. It'll take some time to read through and execute the steps, but at the core its like 15 minutes of real work.
I've recently switched my music over to jellyfin, using various tools to get music from my Spotify playlists and curating them with beets. More recently than that, Immich went stable so I've got it running now in tandem with photoprism. I'd probably switch all the way from photoprism if Immich could read duplicates from the external library when uploaded by a user from an Android & if you could have some sort of android retention policy, like if a photo is older than 6 months and it exists on the server it can be deleted from the android.
I'm using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!
For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D
My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎
You actually got a WhatsApp group to move??!!?!!?? That's so hard! Congratulations.
Privacy wins...hmm well I've managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.
how did you get that number?
Combined number of blocks of all lists on my pFsense box. I am filtering quite heavily. You could do about the same thing with a PI-Hole Unbound.
Nice! I recently set up adguard home on my local network 😎 I'm also self hosting my own audio server with navidrome. Now I don't have to deal with spotify :D
Nice, I installed navidrome as well (along with the lidarr stack to download music) but I have troubles finding reliable sources for music, may I ask where you get your albums from?
Soulseek is a life saver!
Does Soulseek work with a VPN without port forwarding?
I recently switched from Google Photos to Ente.
Its recent in being a month old now, but:
- set up a dedicated server mini PC that really let me expand my self hosting beyond my Synology
- switched from Plex to Jellyfin (including for music)
- found out I can hard link files with my Arr's setup so I can seed without having to keep duplicate copies of files, so that's a win for the network. The privacy aspect is that I'm happy to get rid of data mining services I was using before my Arr's setup.
- started using Immich for photos. So far so good
- Self hosted notes (Joplin)
- got remote desktop working on my home server, so if I'm at work and need to do a personal task, then I can do it on my own PC rather than the work browser.
- I use a chat app to make groups in which I'm the only participant. This is for sharing things across devices (links, files, notes, etc). Even on locked down work PCs I can open the web chat app and access my self-shared content. I used Telegram for this before. Now I'm self hosting an Element server.
- I've got syncthing running on my Retroid Pocket 5 + PC with Switch emulation. So Now I can ditch my Nintendo Switch completely and keep control of my save files. Fuck you Nintendo.
How do you hardlink your Arr files?
In sonarr/radarr you just select hardlinking instead of copy in the appropriate dropdown menu in settings and that's it. Nothing else needs to be done if they share the same storage.
Put graphene on my phone and really like it.
Moved chat with my partner to signal.
Germany came out again against chat control.
Germany opposing chat controll is such good news. But we have to wait to see the true outcome.
A good thing was also that Germany officially said that "suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law". This indicates it's a firm position and not a flimsy "maybe tomorrow..." position.
Running ADGuard at home and being able to only use Linux privately
I deleted more apps from my mobile phone, that was problematic. I deleted several apps from my Windows computer. I found more alternatives to apps I need, on my Mint22 computer. I set up NextCloud, and it works perfectly on all units. I got 3 others to join me on my NextCloud. I am still OMW to fade out FB completely.
Other than that, I keep my units up to date.
Been on GrapheneOS for a few weeks. Great daily driver. I feel like I have control of my phone. It constantly asks me what to share and how much.
It sort of reminds me of the granular control you get on Linux.
Been years since I flashed a new ROM but it was way easier than things had been. Literally a web installer. Love it!
Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁
If you're new to self-hosting I highly recommend you look at YUNOhost. All of those apps are available on it.
I too thank you for the recommendation.
Thank you very much! Will look into it :)
How did you get VPN Killswitch on Fedora? And SyncThing is great
Honestly, idk. I just turned it on, set it to advanced and it just works 🤷♂️
You must use the linux app then and not manual wireguard conf files
Ah yes! But for my raspberry pi with ubuntu server on it, I think I followed something like this https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations