It’s not about going “full privacy-hardened” than to not use at all any phones with stock Apple and Google software. Seriously you can do any effort you want, the first one would be to install a custom android privacy based ROM. You can’t go around it.

You’re absolutely right but these are mainly a droplet in the glass of global surveillance started by global facial cameras But at the end they are surely going to even more increase this shit

Facial recognition street cameras are far more dangerous than these. Sure they are pretty creepy but without rayban you could already insert tiny cameras into glasses to spy on people

EDIT : the only big concern is that they get more popular and that they increased even faster the global surveillance

Little subquestion how fast is your nextclous instance? Cause mine is pretty slow don’t really know why

Not your question sorry, but since your hosting next cloud what’s your experience with it, because I find mine pretty slow and not really smooth

So LAN speed is 1000 WAN speed (get from mainstream speed test) is 500/500

When I’m saying VPN I basically mean access my homelab from outside, so I’m talking about commercial VPN.

All my homelab is in one subnet (included all my other devices). When accessing the speed test locally trough domain it simply resolve it with public DNS

Hope I answer your questions

EDIT : does 500/500 WAN on regular speed test means that I can have 500 on up and down at the same time, or does that means that I can only get for example 250 each at the same time?

Hi, first congrats for going the way of homelabing.

Like you first the hardware :

The elitedesk are great lines of prebuilt PCs mainly for little home servers BUT I wouldn’t recommend to you to take the mini version as it’s very very tiny and therefore doesn’t have great modularity nor upgradeability.

You don’t need to take massive servers or towers but the SFF versions of these or the normal version (starting to get big) are way better and will permit to you to have more space to tweak it and more generally have some place to put storage or else.

But if you can’t allow yourself to have at least a tiny bit bigger that’s okay and you can stay with the mini version that’s not a dummy choice.

For the storage depending on what you’re going to run in 5 years, 120GB could be not enough, adding the backups, you should consider buying at least 256 to 512GB of ssd (preferable for system (SATA or NVME whatsoever)). When it comes to raw and dummy storage, use hard drive, old schooled at first glance they are dirt cheap when getting them on discount. For storing only some videos, photos and music, 2TB usable is nice and making it mirrored (RAID 1) is nice too. But maybe (if one day comes the idea off having larger sizes) using RAID 5 could be nice as you could expend storage easily, you cannot really adapt RAID 1 to RAID 5 without manually doing backups and restoring them.

So buy some hard disks, if you want, you can buy them used (around 15-20 bucks for 2TB good used hard drive). Or you can buy them refurbished or new as you wish. When it comes to network storage hard disks are the best as you basically can’t max out basic NVME drives with your network, basic ones are at around 3000MiB/s so that means 24,000Mib/s of bandwidth so you would need a 25G network (thing that I think you don’t have).

And using more reasonable sized PCs are going to help you fitting all your drives, and maybe putting external NICs in there.

Secondly the software.

Using docker to easily selfhost is a great idea but I really don’t like portainer and mainly the way they manage docker container.

So I would suggest you 2 things if you want to get a bit into tech simply deploy your docker containers with docker compose file, once into you’ll see that it’s very simple.

But if you prefer a simpler approach while not giving up features, as you said you’re a father (congrats), I wouldn’t recommend to you YunoHost it’s a out-of-the-box platform to self host stuff very easily without pretty much technical knowledge.

If the apps are just for you and your wife (pretty close people) using a VPN that give access people to your whole local network (for really close people) or setting up an overlay VPN like tailscale (and selfhost headscale or use netbird) would be nice and pretty straightforward.

If you prefer to make it available online you can also reverse proxy services to make it open to the www from your IP, or use Cloud flare tunnels (don’t like the idea of having cloudflare snipping out all my traffic) or you can use a vps to do the kinda same thing as with cloudflare tunnels without having them on your shoulders.

That’s it for me, hope I guided you, and feel free to ask questions if you wish. Great homelabing journey to you! :)

Gonna modify it a bit as sure it’s not that true

I think that the Tor network is proven to be broken by feds if you are suspicious.

The Tor network was in fact used to reveal the identity of someone (https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/german-authorities-apparently-cracked-tor-anonymity-but-onion-heads-say-its-still-safe) but as we don’t know the truth we cannot really make conclusion but we can act that :

(Tor is always more secure if you’re opsec is great from the beginning)

For example you’re one of the biggest drug dealer and you’re doing 100 000 of deaths every say, for sure they will cramp up to you and find you, succeeding to deanonymize you.

But most of the time you are not that attractive so you will be mostly anonymous. They can target an entity to reveal it but cannot deanonynize the entire network

Just the old .ssh/config file, works like a charm on all terminals :)

Thank you gonna check it

Good idea for normal people that are not really knowing how and what to put on such a device

After the Instella announce by AMD, this model is once again a great news! Full open source model are the way to continue open source software legacy

One is based on Ubuntu, the other on Debian. I wouldn’t recommended and don’t like Ubuntu myself cause of their decisions in the FOSS world

Recommend you Linux mint.

But preferably use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) instead of Mint based on Ubuntu

Mistral --> pseudo-open-source

Linux --> not relates to Europe (but amazing choice)

Vivaldi --> only source available

Pls format your posts it’s so much easier to read

What is the link with rocm?

I’ve shared this AI because it’s one of the best fully open source AI

Instead of the traditional open models (like llama, qwen, gemma…) that are only open weight, this model says that it has :

Fully open-source release of model weights, training hyperparameters, datasets, and code

Making it different from other big tech “open” models. Tough it exists other “fully open” models like GPT neo, and more