pleksi
@pleksi@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a 1 week ago:
No formal education in IT, I’m a GI surgeon.
I built my own gaming pc’s in mid-late 00s and i also knew some basic html just by the virtue of being on the internet as a kid and trolling at bulletin boards/trying to build some websites.
In 2018 i was miserable as a GP after finishing my medical decree. I was thinking about changing careers and I did most of the online version of Harwards CS50 course for fun. In the end i did become a surgeon and not an engineer.
In 2025 Trump II happened and seeing that the tech billionaires were in on it, I lost faith in the USA as a country. I wanted to get off all of my subscriptions and american big tech services, which I’m happy to say ive almost completely achieved. As i was searching for the best replacements for all the services I realized the cleanest and most future-proof path is to host my own.
I run nextcloud, immich, jellyfin, matrix, home assistant, paperless, ollama etc etc. There’s still a whatsapp account unfortunately. It is mirrored to my matrix instance so the phone i use daily doesnt have a whatsapp client but a matrix client instead. Nothing is happening on the phone whatsapp runs on.
- Comment on Is there a solution to use tailscale (or pangolin) alongside a traditional VPN on grapheneos? 1 month ago:
This.
And graphene actually makes things very easy for you: every profile can have regular and private version of any given app.
The private side is essentially a different user with its own set of vpn options but you can easily navigate in between provate and normal apps.
Im using the regular profile for staying connected to home. All traffic is routed to home and then to proton.
Everything in the private section goes through regular proton vpn(the app on the phone) so any traffic to the web also has a different exit node to my “home” traffic (albeit a proton one).
I then have a separate profile called incognito with only proton pass, vpn and onion browser on it.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 7 months ago:
Im on the same boat. Especiakly claude opus 4.5 writes better scripts in 20s than i could in 2 hours of web search and debugging
For critical baremetal/live situations i will use the docs and/or use AI for debugging help only.