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Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.

As someone who went through this process after trumps 2nd term and power i can give you my process:

-angrily unsubscribe all big tech subscriptions -make a protonmail and tutamail account, realize I like proton suote more and decide to subscribe -transfer all passwords to proton suite -download all photos and other data to an external drive. TURNS OUT THIS TAKES SEVERAL DAYS WTF -angrily order a rasp-pi and an external SSD -use step by step tutorials to install docker and immich. Fall in love -gradually (via help of google and GPTs) become confident enough with command line to start managing the server headless over SSH

Fast forward 6 months: My router os now running OpenWRT, my network access is always through ProtonVPN. My external devices are connected via wireguard to the router when not on home wifi. My main server is now an old office mini pc running about 10 services. Im using borg for nightly snapshots(its a bit like apple time machine) and after that everything is backed up to another server at a friends house via rsync and ssh. I have a third mini computer whose purpose is to be my tv’s UI with access to services like the national broadcasts web ui and muäy own jellyfin and invidious (adless youtube client) The tv does not have an internet connection anymore.

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Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Re-investing in a new platform full of tools (Proton suite) isn’t in my opinion a rational answer. My answer is self host vaultwarden, self host your file storage, and choose between Proton and Tuta for mail, and use your own domain name so you can take your email address with you should you move.

In my opinion No-one should ever store any form of personal data implicitly on someone else’s computer.

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- pleksi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh i have vaultwarden as well nowadays
  
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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
how well does invidious work on the TV? how easy are the controls?

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- pleksi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I use a small wireless logitech keyboard-mousepad so it works very well.
  
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    yeah not all invidiouses allow proxying the video, and at some it used to be off by default
    
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    pleksi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Im running my own instance. But yeah, videos from google servers won’t load behind a proxy. Or they might work for a while but then wont and then you have to switch vpn servers which is very annoying.
    
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DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
When you’re connecting to your local network, say from outside your home, you connect through proton vpn? I’m wanting to self host, but I thought I would have to switch between proton and whatever VPN the local machine is using? Say immich for instance

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- pleksi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  My phone is on a woreguard tunnel into my router so it stays in the same forewall zone as my services. Internet access is routed through the tunnel and then through another tunnel to protonvpn and from there to the www. It was a bit elaborate to set up but it works. Wouldnt really recommend the setup for everyone, it was a bit of a pain in the ass to get working. I used Openwrt and policy based routimg plus wireguard for the tunnels into and put of the router.
  
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