come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.

Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.

I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.

not OP, but feedly is quite privacy invasive. the content you read is very valuable data, self hosting keeps your reading interests private.

Please. This would be great.

Steam is the same. It’s just a license to play the game. GOG is better in this regard.

she’s providing games for free, who cares if she’s a narcissist.

yeah this bot is annoying as hell

I’m pretty sure there’s an import option. But I’ve never used it because I have no Google account.

Use Newpipe for Android. Best YouTube experience you can get.

XMPP was there before Matrix and will be there after Matrix dies when the venture capitalists behind Element funding decide to move the money somewhere else.

Matrix is not an “open source project”. It’s a VC funded company.

There are tons of them

Edit: fmhy.net is one I recommend.

This applies only to their hosted solutions, doesn’t it?

Shouldn’t be relevant for self-hosters.

apparently in some cases uTorrent, BitSpirit, and libTorrent simply write your IP address directly into the information they send to the tracker and/or to other peers

These are just bad practices by shady bittorrent programs. Choose a good client and you’ll avoid those issues.

The reason why is that Tor doesn’t support UDP and it’s just harmful for the network to do bittorrent over it.

go with Hugo + a theme Avoid WordPress, static sites have a lot of advantages.

read OP’s post. if it not were for privacy in the first place and people ripping media, there wouldn’t be any copy left of those shows.

Of course not all pirates archive, but there’s an important percentage that do. Non-pirates are running out of options because each year less and less audiovisual productions release as physical media (old DVDs, more recently blue rays) and are only available through a subscription model where you do not own the actual content.

So piracy is pretty much the only route available to archive a lot of content.

I2P does connect to the clearnet, it just doesn’t by default.

Outproxies are available and you can even host your own routing it through Tor. That way you get the best of both networks.

I’d rather use a real OS, thank you

it’s the same guy but it’s not from the same site. that website doesn’t have a VPS comparison.

this is great, thanks!

yes, pretty much this.

Bandcamp and Qobuz sell high quality FLACs.

Other way to do it is subscribing to Tidal HiFi tier and using tidal downloaded to legally download FLACs with your account. But this supports artists less than actually buying from them in Bandcamp.

reworking the whole library, I had 1.5 TB of mp3s, but they were super messy organized. Sure, I could have gone through organizing it but still mp3s suck.

So I’m starting over with a FLAC only music library. I use Navidrome on a local server and with a Subsonic client on my phone I can choose to download certain songs or playlists to use when I’m away.

CD quality FLACs are the minimum for me. They are nineties technology and still most digital music isn’t even close to that. I find it hilarious how Spotify is still serving mp3s.

not OP but it’s painfully slow when you have a large collection of bookmarks.

this requires a Firefox account so not fully self-hosted. In the README they tell this is for security reasons, but I’d just like to run this locally on my home network, so not much of a compromise there.

That’s quite sad because otherwise this would be perfect.

you can degoogle android. good luck removing apple from your iPhone tho

and it’s not free software. only source available with a license that doesn’t allow forking.

basically Newpipe but only source available, not really free software or open source, so they are restricting your freedoms.

Just keep using Newpipe instead.

I mean, as long as you visit libgen with https your ISP shouldn’t be able to tell if you’re uploading books. But yeah, if Tor doesn’t slow down the upload too much, it’s a good protection measure.

For checking on metadata, I recommend you to use Calibre. It allows you to view and remove undesired metadata and you might also use Calibre to automatically add the correct metadata to the PDFs so they are searchable in libgen’s database.

Depends on your definition of safe. But it’s way better than a VPN in every way. The only problem is that there are less people seeding over I2P

I’m more of a prosody enjoyer but the guide seems to be well written and your website looks great! really refreshing compared to those corporate copycat blogs.