Cool Beans, Debian and its forks are my favourite flavours of Linux.

I have a fleet of Pi’s running services, an old 2014 mac mini running different services booted with Debian, and a Flint 2 with a vaniella install of OpenWRT (it comes with OpenWRT but I flashed it with a clean install), I am hoping to get a 2018 hand me down Mac mini in a few weeks that I will install Debian on; My first pi going down the list is a pi 0 2 that runs crowdsec, port 22 is the SSH port the only things on my LAN that use port 22 for ssh is my firewall and the pi 0 2. On a pi 4 I run Home Assistant OS and it does most of my smart home stuff. On my first pi 5 I have many services I checked out Docker to see whatever was running all I know is there are many things running. The things I have running on there for this conversation I will say are: Caddy, to give my devices and services simple domain names for me to remember and https. Paperless-ngx, it keeps my documents sorted with this I could include CUPS and SCANserjs for my printer/scanner. I have immich, for my photos. I have vaultwarden running to keep my passwords and 2FA things running sadly I still have an iPhone and iPad but even if I was using something else I can sign into Bitwarden with my vaultwarden domain (if it is on one of my vLANs). Than I have SearXNG setup on it with it getting its stuff from a few different search sites. The final two things I will mention is Pi-Hole and unbound this is one of my 2 instances of pihole I use its IP address as one of my DNS, unbound works along with this some how. You will find people arguing adguard home vs pihole all over the place I tried adguard but came back to pihole, any who it is a whole home adblocker that I have set up to block different things on different vLANs. On my second Pi 5 I have Ghost that is running my simple blog, I am in the process of moving it to a VPS because I want it hosted elsewhere. The second pihole runs on this pi as a secondary DNS. Mentioning my VPS I also have my stuff backing up to it every morning, had I looked into the encryption choice I choose I would have gone with something different than age, it does what I want it to do but it is coded in go. On my third and final pi 5 I have it running the GUI raspberry pi os with most of the things uninstalled but I installed Librewolf with some adguard plugin and sponsor host block to block Youtube ads and skip sponsors and it is attached to my TV. Than the 2014 Mac mini I have Debian running to run Jellyfin and the *arr stack. My flint 2 has several different vLANs to keep things apart from things like my IoT vLAN cannot reach into anything other than my Home Assistant (the pi 4). The 2018 Mac Mini I will hopefully be getting soon as a hand me down will replace the TV pi 5 I will install Debian on it and will be able to have the Jellyfin app rather than just using the browser and figure I may figure out how to use the Youtube thing you mentioned or stick with Librewolf I also have a subscription to Nebula I am unsure if I will have to use Librewolf or if there is an app, I am getting the hand me down Mac mini because the pi 5 is not quite strong enough to have replaced everything I used my old AppleTV 4k for. I will likely use HA to create a remote for the TV/Mac mini.

My Flint 2 is a smart router so each of the 5 ports can go to different vLANs, and it can host many different SSIDs that have access different vLANs. It also hosts my VPN so that I can access all my services on my LAN when I am away from my LAN the app I use to access my VPN is wireguard.

EasyDNS hosts my VPS, my domain name, and my email, I use IMAP because POP3 needs to die and I refuse to use exchange! My previous (HostHero) host charged me a boat load of money for unlimited email addresses, because they did not offer a wildcard option so I had to go into cPannel and create a new email address before giving it out, with easydns they have a wild card option so I can create a random email at any time and it forwards to my email which is than sorted into folders. I use a formula of servicename_Saskatchewanslagand3randomnumbers@mydomain.ca, once or twice I used it for extended free trials.

I tried Nextcloud but I feel it tries to do to much and fails at everything, I am sure hosted ones are better but I have only had problems with the self hosted version I would love to find another file server rather than smb or sftp. I have other services for contacts and calendars, not sure which ones. I sadly still use Apple Pages and Numbers because there is no real good app that the Libreoffice stuff on my devices. In the future I plan on replacing my iPhone with either the Motorola phone that can install GraphenOS or I may find something else I am still a few months away from needing a new phone, when I need to replace my iPad I will probably get a Laptop hopefully with a touch screen. I may go with a framework Laptop just so I do not pay for the preinstalled windows and install Debian and because it is upgradeable. I am done with using closed source OS’s and service’s, it is all FOSS going forward (as much as I can).

Sorry if I over explained some points, under explained some points, sorry if you feel I am belittling you with the references I am not meaning to. You can join the https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted group for learning more things.

Hey, you’re the one on the journey of de-googling, it’s your decision.

However, one of the reasons many ppl degoogle is because we are lied to all the time by software companies.

Iris keyboard also says “network permission is optional until triggered by translation”, and the iris keyboard immediately asks for network permission on install, so trust that as much as you like.