I knew it, Squishmallows are real!

The ability to use a custom search engine (searXNG) and the accessibility/UI features.

This has been my go-to on GrapheneOS. Glad to see it get some notice.

You could try learning podman as an intermediate tool. I recommend it for the user-controlled systemd services. There are so many systemd commands to fine tune your containers.

That’s great to hear you’ve made it into a business. I’d been thinking of creating a “biz in a box” side hustle for small businesses. I’m not very business-savvy, though.

I just have it in a pod with the companion app. They auto update and auto restart at night. I’ve also kept my subscriptions fairly low. Most of the time, that’s all I need.

I’ve been selfhosting for about 4 years now. I wanted to break away from services like Google and find tools I could control on my own hardware.

I went from bare-metal Jellyfin and Nextcloud on my NAS to running the NAS with an NFS share and a Raspberry Pi as a pod orchestrator through quadlets. That little sucker is running pods for:

• media (audiobookshelf, kavita, Jellyfin)
• Immich
• Invidious
• Navidrome
• Peertube
• SearXNG
• Servarr suite (flareresolverr/jackett/prowlarr, gluetun/qbittorrent, jellyseerr, lazylibrarian, lidarr, mylar3, radarr, sonarr)

It’s also running instances of:

• mumble
• nginx-proxy-manager
• sftpgo
• syncthing

I’ve only opened a few services for family usage, but everything else is VPN-accessible.

Also, no more Nextcloud. Syncthing balances everything out, and I can use sftpgo’s webdav option to host my own seedvault backups. Now Google is collecting dust.

Dude, I feel you there. Also, your parents seem to rather keep up appearances than to help their son. That’s toxic.

You shouldn’t have to fight this shit on your own. I hope you’re able to find like-minded people online that have a personal understanding of what you’re going through and are good examples heading in the right direction.

Oh, and it is a scary time to be outside nowadays. You’re more aware of what’s going on, it seems, than your folks.

Jeff Goldblum’s Jurassic Park monologue feels appropriate here.

“You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew it you had it. You patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now your selling it!”

I have my own instance of this, and it’s become my only front end for YouTube content. The last political shooting (and subsequent firings of commenters of said shooting) made sure of that. I imported my subscriptions, scrubbed all my data, and haven’t looked back since.