Do you selfhost paperless-ngx?

Indeed I do. It’s not necessarily something I find myself using every single day, but it’s come in handy on so many occasions, I can’t imagine NOT having it now. I’m (slowly) scanning all my existing paper archives in and shredding them, only keeping the physical copies of things that make sense (eg. birth certificates). The more data I put into it, the more useful it is.

Great list - picked up a couple new ones for myself. Thanks.

Adding to your list:

• Paperless Mobile An almost fully-fledged mobile app for my Paperless-ngx server
• Syncthing Helped me (with Photoprism) replace Google Photos, but also syncs backup files made by other apps (Tasker, Signal, calls & texts, etc) from my phone to my computer overnight
• Simple Search Completely configurable search widget, lets me search with my private Whoogle servers from my phone’s home screen
• Shelter A lot like Insular, lets you utilise work profile for your own needs - apps, files, etc.
• Droid-ify Another F-droid alternative

That’s not a bad idea. At the very least, let’s take it back out of the hands of big tech. They can’t be trusted.

I hate where this is going, but accept that it is inevitable. As much as I value my privacy, I’ve well and truly fallen into the trap of using tap and pay with my phone. I don’t think I’ve carried cash in any meaningful quantity for years now.

Social media truly is a cancer

I scrubbed all my Reddit post and comment data just before the blackout then, after the admins started doing their stupid shit and booting mods out of subs so they could open them again, deleted my account entirely.

I’ve now blackholed all of Reddit’s domains on my Pi-hole servers and added a regex to exclude the same domains from any search results on my Whoogle instance.

Spez can get fucked. Not one more bit of data from me to Reddit.

I’m now working on getting my own Lemmy instance up and running for my close circle of friends/family that are interested in also making a break.

Interesting - I wonder if this “hack” (side note: article’s author needs a slap in the face with a fucking chair) still would’ve happened had they not moved the Office from Akamai to their own Azure CDN…?