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The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab

I’ve never been terribly good at letting commercial cloud providers hold onto my life. Between wanting actual ownership of my data, a lingering distrust of corporate telemetry, and the sheer… 

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The Update Conundrum

I started my home lab in 2021. It began with some basic Home Assistant automations and, over the last few years, has spiralled into a proper stack of VMs and… 

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The Browser Sync Privacy Rabbit Hole

It started at 5am. I was up before the rest of the family, so I did what any sensible person with poor sleep habits and a mild obsession with privacy… 

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Privacy Myths: Expectations vs. Technical Reality

After a string of posts about age verification, DNS safety nets, and Google’s ongoing war against sideloading, it is probably time for something slightly less “heavy.” Many people rely on…