This photo should really show how trusted they should be. There is no share on Lemmy and their comments are on reddit!

Then a few things I noticed Vaultwarden was not mentioned, I will selfhost my password manager forever now I do not trust third parties. Vaultwarden and Bitwarden were not mentioned in the 2FA section, as I self host Vaultwarden I get all the Bitwarden paid features for free 2FA is included. Although this girl blocks ads and trackers with pihole and does not like adguard pro or home whatever it is called I know there are many who disagree with me.

But I cannot get over the fact that they are suggesting commenting on reddit.

I spent some money and got a Flint 2 and installed vanialla OpenWRT onto it. I have two free static IP addresses from my ISP, I planned on setting up a mail server on one of them but that dream crashed down on me when I started learning about it! Anywho I use one of my static IP addresses and wireguard to VPN into my place where I have two very finally tuned to block things and all my devices use that connection when I am away from home. I can use Jellyfin and show off all my other services like Mealie, which I just set up so it is pulling recipes out of webpages every 6 hours. KitchenOwl, that helps me make shopping lists I needed something better than a notes app. My HA setup that has all my IoT stuff and my reminders. My *arr stack, and whatever else I feel like sharing. I have not shown off Mealie of Kitchenowl yet as I have just got them but I have shown off the *arr stack and pretend to be insulted when people ask me what I use to watch the shows, movies (Jellyfin) not sure what I will be using for music but that is something I will figure out when I am closer to recomining my collection.

*edit: I should maybe also mention I have a VPS so if I really wanted to I could do this all on there but I have a fleet of pi’s a 2014 Mac mini running Debian and hopefully a hand me down 2018 Mac mini that I will put Debian on in the next few weeks.

I currently use Librewolf, ad guard, and pihole. It does not use SponsorBlock, at least not that I know, as I currently run it on a pi 5 attached to my TV.

I have used the GIMP a few times I have also found ways for the UI to be more like photoshop but it still felt aways off.

I’ll admit I was in the anti-AI crowd for big projects, though I do use it for homelab tinkering and fine-tuning systems. But recently, someone told Adobe “F U, I’m not paying your tax” and vibe-coded their entire product suite in about a week, then open-sourced it on GitHub. That changed my thinking, I knew it was going to eventually happen the rich can only enshitify for so long before the poor rise up.

Talented people are finding it and they will make it more functional. As the rough edges get worked out someone, because we live in a capitalist hellscape, will add a paid hosted cloud option for people who don’t want to self-host. Adobe will fight the first few servers, but for each one they take down, new ones will pop up. Eventually Adobe will have to fold and accept the Bitwarden/Vaultwarden model: open source with paid hosting and features for convenience.

Some time after I started homelabbing, de-googling, and de-appleing I realized I needed a new password manager I found Vaultwarden so I was using that, I was happy with that but found it so frustrating that I could not use it away from my LAN not that I had moved the majority of my passwords yet but I wanted to use it away from LAN, so I found Bitwarden. I was later talking to someone and they asked “so you went from using free apps (Apple passwords, and Authy) to using paid?” I had no idea paid for options existed at the time and asked them what was not free? They listed off things I was already using it for and said no I have all those, I was so confused as to not knowing that vaultwarden gave you all the premium features of bitwarden but for free.

Waterwolf I have found removes a lot of the Google bloot that is in Firefox.

For 100% of people who use the internet, for the love of glob either turn off ssh or change the port number! Unless you have a setup for crowdsec, than have one pi or some other SBC with port 22 open.

So for the 99% of people who want to feel as if there are no ads on the internet Waterwolf and uBO is enough.

For the 99% of people who want to block ads and trackers on all devices, in most instances, there is all of the above plus pihole with unbound and a secondary pihole and that will be good enough. And for the love of glob they do not have a “smart” TV attached to their LAN even if it is on its own vLAN.

For the 99% of people, without a static IP, who do not want to feel targeted using searXNG and the above things is good enough. People with a static IP a lot of the search engines rate limit you or just block static IPs from using their API.

For the 99.9% of people who do not want to get, much, spam and block tracking pixels there is all of the above with your own email service, self-hosted (if they are crazy) or hosted with their own domain, with a new address for everything. This can also be used for unlimited free trials but I have only repeated free trials 2 or 3 times! I personally have a wild card setup with my current host so I get the occasional spam email just from bots who randomly find my domain and try to send it something. When that happens I block the address, occasionally domain, from sending me stuff and block anything sent to the address they sent it to. My previous host gave me unlimited emails for some ungodly amount of money and no wildcard so I had to sign in and manually create a new email address for everything sure I did not get the random fishing email sent to a random address but I had to actually plan on giving out my email before hand.

For the 99% of people who want to feel safe on the internet there is all of the above plus OpenWRT, vLANs, etc.

For the 99% of people who want to feel the warm embrace of that security on their LAN there is Wireguard, or something similar that is FOSS, to VPN into their LAN.

I do agree with you that for the 99% of people a uBO, pihole, and router level VPN is enough, I do disagree with pointing to Quad9 is the right answer it should be going to Unbound first. I personally do not use a router level VPN for outgoing traffic because there is no FOSS thing other than TOR and right now I do not have the money for one. I guess I am in the 1% ish of people?