Confining

I am sick and tired of these companies and these stupid governments and I’m also tired of the people who continue to let it happen. I am asking you guys, what more can I do? What more can be done? I think I’m facing a privacy fatigue.

I use mainly foss apps or “sideloaded” apps when possible, I take a lot of precautions for my privacy and try to cut the leak of my data at the roots. And have gotten to a point where I can’t find my name on data brothers websites. I’ve done almost everything that is recommended except for privacy phone and self hosting (which I already got into). I genuinely enjoy these things and love learning how it works but this fight does take a toll.

I’ve contributed as much as possible and are asking you guys what else can I do? I use foss apps, donate when financially feasible (mainly crypto if they have it), share the apps and even made my parents move to some, and even sent letters to representatives (even under my parents and siblings). Only thing I haven’t done is contribute code which I plan on doing soon since I’m learning and it’s a field I’m interested in. I wish I can protest but there aren’t protest anywhere close to me. I want to continue the fight but sometimes I do get tired of the news and the laws and the companies and I end up asking myself what else can I do?

I am not saying I want to give up, I’m actually the opposite but I have noticed a toll on my mental. Is this just me? Or have you guys also noticed and felt this way. I just want for everyone to get together and protest the absolute shit out of these people and get them out of here. I do think this country (usa) is so divided that I don’t see Gen Z protest like those in Nepal, Indo, Philippines, etc happening here and it saddens me. Just wish everyone can come together but if we did that, how else would they control us right?

Just makes me mad and tired that’s all I’m saying. Sorry if I repeated myself but I hope you get the message I’m saying. Maybe I just need a friend to talk to.

So today after almost a year of learning what self hosting and what a nas and raid configuration was, I was to get a used hp prodesk 600 g6 mini and install zimaos on it. Zimaos really made things a lot simpler than I thought it was going to be. I was easily able to install portainer and immich and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

I’ve actually made a goal now to use this for me to get used to it and since I already have a list of what I would like to self hosting for my parents as well as for myself, I’m going to take this as an opportunity to try to set everything up so I’m comfortable with it and when I’m ready to buy a nas for my parents and set it up for them, it won’t be hard. I will also learn how to do remote access and how to do it safely and maybe even try out different nas os to see which one I’m comfortable/like more.

Anyway I just wanted to say that I’m happy to be deep diving and this and can’t wait to learn and host more!!

TLDR: I love sideloaded apps and they r a godsend

So I’ve been using sideloaded yt and Spotify and now I can NEVER go back. Makes me feel like a PEASANT if I do.

So a couple weeks ago I went on a 4 hour drive and sadly my sidestore time expired and I couldn’t renew due to ap ID it so I had to wait a week and by the time I would drive another 4 hours back. And let me tell you FREE SPOTIFY SUCKS ASS. I can’t go back or scrub through the songs, I can only do 6 skips per hour and replay COUNTS AS THE 6, luckily I use a vpn which blocked other company ads but SPOTIFY HAS THEIR OWN DAMN STUPID ADS EVERY 3 SONGS. And I couldn’t add songs to queue by swiping and I had to tap on the three dots and add to queue which I can’t do while on the highway. And of course I can’t play a specific song, I can’t even decide whether I want shuffle or not. And I didn’t even wanna try yt with no playing off the app or while the phone is off.

It’s as if getting into sideloading, piracy, and modding made me feel true online freedom and I can’t wait or imagine the feeling I’m going to have when I start self hosting. I’m definitely going to donate to these projects due to the improvement in my life they contributed to.

So I got a survey from Anker and when I clicked the link and answered what I needed to I decided to go back using the link and it stated I already answered it.

My default browsing app is Firefox focus on ios and wiped all data when done. Tried it in brave private mode and ddg all on ios and it gave me the same results. Finally I opened the link on Mullvad browser on my pc and still the same result.

I understand why they have trackers that knows if you completed or not and I’m not faulting them for this, just trying to tinker and figure out how it works. My guess is that the tracker is associated with the alias email and the link can be disabled or show a certain message once I reach a certain point. If anyone knows how to this works please inform me as I would like to learn how this works and would appreciate this lesson.

So I just figured out that Spotify has stopped letting free users pick specific songs in their own playlists. They let you do it a certain amount of times and I think that is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. Not letting you pick for a searched song is one thing but in your own playlist is pushing it.

Now the only way I found out is from eveespotify. I don’t have the official Spotify just ever before it got hit and spotc++. Should I wait for spotc++ to update and remove that but also do you guys have other side loaded apps for any music software such as ytmusic or Spotify. Thanks in advance

So I’ve been doing research and learned of the new things; Jmp.chat, jabber, xmpp.

So If I got it correct, xmpp is an open protocol that apps such as zoom and WhatsApp use to transmit messages. I’m not sure what jabber is yet but i think the jabber id you get acts like an email such as “johndoe@notgmail.com” and that is how people can send you messages.

Now my main question is if JMP.chat could be a replacement for MySudo or Google voip and any other voip providers. Basically can I use a phone number from JMP.Chat to use as my business phone number that I can get calls to, make calls from, receive to and text from, or use as a random number to give out to random websites or random people.

I am currently using MySudo but before I get more numbers to better compartmentalize my life, I was looking at better options and if I understand it correctly, JMP.Chat seems to fill that gap perfectly.

Please inform and/or correct me if I misunderstood or got something wrong as I want to learn what it is, if it’s a viable replacement and if it’s something I can utilize to better compartmentalize my life. Thanks you in advance

Hello, I’ve recently discovered self hosting and I really want to get into it. I’m not going to fully deep dive now, but I at least want to know the basics before I start my own journey. So today I came to ask if anybody has a roadmap or recommends a path for me to get into self hosting.

As far as Linux goes, I’m currently on Mint but only know how to update and switch/list directories. I do not know docker but understand the basics of it. This also goes for tailscale.

I know what a NAS is and how it works and the different Raids and when to use which one. I know what I want to self host but I am not sure if I want to use docker or proxmox. I’m also don’t understand the proxmox and how it works. Any information or tutorial would be highly appreciated. Thanks you

Hey just wondering if anybody has any experience in a decentralized cloud storage solution. Pretty much just a personal replacement of Google, Apple, and Dropbox services. I’ve been doing some research and it seems like a cool technology that I have not heard about until I went looking for it. So just wanted to know if anyone had experience with it, the pricing, and which one they recommended. Thanks you.