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-====== The Goal behind Selfhosting ======
-Self-hosting is the approach to be independent from big corporations for your digital life. I think that this is important because depending on some for-profit external company to provide you services and tools on which our today's life depends so much is risky. Leaving aside privacy considerations (which you //shouldn't//, just saying) it can lead to a few more issues like vendor lock-in (where you are forced to keep purchasing devices from the same brand/type or you lose years of photos/mails/etc), exploitation and //enshittification// (whatever that means today).
-Frankly, we are used to have those services "for free", but what if Google or Apple put a pricey price tag? What will you do?
-What will you do when those **free** services will start pushing ads even more down your throat? When you will not be able to understand if an e-mail is legit or pushed ad? Or when to login-in in your phone or share a contact with a friend you will be forced to watch an ad first? Remember how //You Tube// used to be nice and accessible, but now you need to watch endless ads before //and// during some video which is supposedly free? Well.
-Self-Hosting is possible, might be less difficult than you expect, and indeed can be fun. I do it mostly for fun, i admit.
-So, basically **self hosting** is gaining back control on your life and be independent, not a slave, to the real big powers of today's digital world. Oh, and having fun too, or i would say, first and foremost.
-Will this be too much for yourself? I don't know, i don't care. I had/have tons of fun learning new stuff and sometimes drowning in the vast ocean of free-hosting tools and stuff that's out there for me to try. You will have to draw lines, give yourself limits and expect a learning curve, also expect to experiment a lot.
-What i will present in these pages are the endpoints of my journey: i tried and experimented (and i still do) a lot, the pages will reflect this and try to be updated with the **current** endpoint of each experimentation. This is not meant to be complete nor correct, its a fun journey in progress which i share with you (and, to be honest, also not to forget myself what i did in case i need to redo it again).
-===== Expected Results =====
-Getting free from big tech is not an easy task and probably cannot even be truly achieved without sacrifice. The objective here is to **not** make sacrifices for as much as possible.
-I will **not** cover how to free yourself from google or your phone vendor's Android (of course, Apple ecosystem is so far from //freedom// that i will not even mention it, ever). You can learn about [[https://lineageos.org|LineageOS]] and other //custom-roms// for Android and try to load them on your phone/tablet/android device, you can learn about [[https://microg.org|MicroG]] to get rid of the pervasive Google's services, but it is outside the scope of these pages.
-Everything i **will** cover can be applied on top of whatever Android phone you already use without the need to modify it.
-These pages will cover your **home** setup, where i expect that all your data will be stored. I also assume this **home** setup will be stored in a private place, so not on some rented metal or virtual machine on the public internet, because where you store your data is as important as who manages it, and i am not impressed by the idea of cloud storing in encrypted format: all your data will still be at the mercy of your storage provider physical and IT-security, and of course subject to data leaks, decryption and resell / abuse. If any of that should happen, it must be for my own errors in securing my stuff rather some cutbacks or malevolence from somebody else.
-So, what is that i aim at securing //on my own premises//?
-  * Contacts: all my contacts data, address books.
-  * Calendars: all my appointments and memos.
-  * Files and personal documents: ID's scans, medical files, tax related documents...
-  * Photos: my family's photos, old scanned photos and any photos i take with my phone...
-  * Notes: store, manage and access your personal notes.
-  * Smart Home: access lights, heating, controls the //smart// home directly.
-  * Media Collection: store, manage and access my, rightfully, owned media collection (music, videos, books...)
-What i will not cover is e-mail management, because this is a totally bigger beast that i think cannot be managed by self-hosting at home. It can be, and i do, managed by yourself but you will definitely need a physical server on the internet and it can be much more complex and risk-full. Also, you cannot definitely self-host/self-manage any kind of certified email.

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