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by jmnicolas 2094 days ago
I envy people that can freely share their thoughts / dreams / wishes on some random VM in some random cloud.

I don't even trust my connected devices since the amount of telemetry going on guarantees that everything I type will end up on some random VM in some random cloud.
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francis-io 2094 days ago
Buy a small NUC and run some docker containers. You might end up sinking 100 hours into it, but I have the same concerns and self hosting (with some cloud backups, but encrypted) is the solution for me.

https://github.com/htpcBeginner/docker-traefik

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jmnicolas 2094 days ago
What's the point of having my own cloud as long as my devices are purposed built against my privacy?

AFAIK everything I type on my Windows machine is directly sent to MS servers. I assume the same for my Android phone.

Microsoft and Google ... I know it's the worst for privacy but my platform choices were made before I realized I was data mined.

I can't afford Apple, and frankly I think their privacy stance is more marketing than real care. Especially when I see the lengths they go to create a world were they OWN consumers.

Last Sunday I decided I had enough: I installed KDE Neon on my desktop. It failed to install drivers for my NVIDIA 950 gfx and proceeded to kill my sound card drivers in the process. So I installed Elementary OS (yes complete opposite from Neon). Graphic drivers were fine, but every time it played a sound it was preceded by a loud crack in my speakers. And it's not like it's fresh / unknown hardware, I assembled this PC between 2010 and 2012 (Intel Core i7 3770k on an Asus motherboard).

So I'm back on Windows, but at least it's a fresh install.

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PaulKeeble 2094 days ago
What software would you run to do this? I have been looking for a good habit/exercise tracker for a while and currently use Habitica. It is free(ish) but also does a poor job in surfacing what you did and history but has a good habit and daily model. I haven't yet found a good piece of software like it that is self hosted.
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scns 2094 days ago
Loop habit tracker from f-droid or playstore. Not self hosted but nice history analytics.

edit typo and more info

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