Uses

Hardware

• Apple 15" M2 MacBook Air - dual-booting MacOS + Fedora Asahi Remix
• Apple Magic Keyboard
• MX Master Vertical Mouse
• Apple Magic Trackpad - I bought but have never been able to get used to desktop trackpad use.
• server: Synology DS918+
• server: mac mini
• server: mac mini + Ubuntu
• iPhone 16
• iPod Classic 7th Gen + 1TB SSD upgrade

Applications

• Vivaldi + Firefox just recently switched away from Safari as my default for the past X years
• Plex + PlexAmp
• Audiobookshelf - primarily for podcasts, I was a heavy audiobook listener, but have not listened to much in the past year.
• Telegram + iMessage + Matrix (Element X) + Signal (very little) - Telegram has been the primary communication for my daily active chats with family, my wife and a couple close friends for 10+ years now. A few attempts to migrate away stalled out. My wife and I have been successfully testing a self-hosted Matrix server with Element X. I may push my family to this server and Signal for other chats? It's something I think about, but the cost of switching is high for others and I don't want to push everyone to something new only to find out I don't really like it, etc.

Services

• Fastmail + Purelymail + currently testing out a self-hosted Mailcow instance for a couple non-important domains, running quite well so far.
• NextDNS for network-wide adblocking
• Tailscale for easy secure access to my home lab/self-hosted applications
• Immich for photos. This has been one of the best open-source apps I've come across and one of the few I've actually set my wife up to use as well, and probably soon the rest of my immediate family.
• miniflux for RSS. Had used Feedbin for years, moved to FreshRSS and settled on miniflux, it's a great lightweight RSS backend.

Data Ownership

Slowly moving towards bringing as much as I can under my own control, preferrably with open-source applications and services.