That very well could be. Maybe try it out on your own home network, if possible where its less used.

I’m not having that issue. I am pulling results from both google and wikipedia fine. But there’s also bing, mojeek, qwant, startpage, brave, and yahoo. You can have as many enabled as you want at one time too.

Running your own mail server, as troublesome and annoying as it may be, really is probably the best option.

Yeah, that’s what I gathered from the videos I watched about it, but better to be safe than sorry and just double check.

I saw that that sshole issue was really only an issue for people running older out of date systems, is that true?

I know I have a long road to travel learning the router, networking, security stuff but it is a road I will travel as I find time.

I just looked up YouTube videos on using docker compose when I started. Also https://trash-guides.info/ has some great information. Services you want to use like Jellyfin for example has documents and good information for setting it up. I use docker compose so I would start with their website.

Hmmmm, interesting. What is the name of this distro, if you don’t mind me asking.

Yeah, I actually want to learn to build my own router and learn to set up openWRT, etc. Its a fairly new field to me but I know its something I need to learn. ISP routers are definitely a joke.

I run my containers through Tailscale to be able to access my services away from home. But yes, you’re right one container turns into adding another container and on and on. But its a better way than depending on other services that spy and track, etc. I still have a lot that I need to learn and add to the server but for the most part it accomplishes everything I want when I decided to start a server.

Yep, highly recommend it. Its easy to setup, especially if you already know a little about self-hosting.

Ironfox as mentioned and also Titanium browser which is built from Vanadium browser if you aren’t on GrapheneOS. Both block ads and allow extensions, especially the ublock origin extension.

You don’t need much at all if you’re asking hardware-wise. Depends on what you want to host but I run jellyfin, searxng, slskd and many other containers on a small Intel CPU and 16 GB of ram. I run all of my containers in docker-compose and have no issues. Storage wise, all of my containers run from a 1 tb ssd, the containers themselves only store your config files, etc so you don’t need much storage for that. If you wanted to run like Jellyfin for media then you would probably want more storage.

If you do any self-hosting, hosting your own instance of SearXNG is a much better way to go. No AI and you actually get results for what you search for. It pulls results from all the other search engines and you can choose which engines you want in settings, and it masks your IP so the other search engines don’t see where the requests actually come from. But even if you don’t self-host, SearXNG is just a much better privacy respecting search engine anyway.

Well, then I guess I use it for the wrong reason. Either way, I respect my privacy and security and Discord is a big no, especially with the shit they’ve pulled lately.

Yes, I said they’re slowly locking down the newer models. And yeah, older pixels still have some time. But is this crisis we are in gonna end by the time those pixels lose support or are these Motorolas going to be our only option. That’s all I’m pointing out. Yeah, still a little early to panic but if how things have been lately, I think this is looking to be bad for the average person who doesn’t have a lot of money. Over $2,000 USD is absolutely insane.

Yeah until those are no longer supported and these expensive ass Motorolas are the only option BC Google is locking down newer models that won’t be able to have GOS installed eventually.

Yep, I’ve been saying this. They are now slowly putting GOS out of reach for many. Pixels are slowly being locked down by Google to where GOS won’t be able to be installed on newer models, so the only option left will be these ridiculously priced Motorola’s or old Pixels that won’t be supported much longer. Really makes you wonder what is truly going on with GOS now.

Well, I don’t use discord, but on some platforms yeah, music, gaming/modding, 3d printing, just to name a few. I mean, I think a big purpose of a lot of those types of platforms are for communities around interests. But no Discord.

I never said I needed to join so many communities but the list of communities is small. For example, I have a huge interest in certain types of music and I like to find out about bands and artists I may have never heard of, so its nice to join a community of people from around the country/world. Also, getting people you know to switch to something different or more privacy respecting isn’t always the easiest. Believe me, I’ve tried.

I joined fluxer some months ago but the amount of communities seems very little.