I haven’t read your post, but I set this up a few years ago after finding this post: https://golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/expose-server-vpn.html

Yunohost and Navidrome.

Banning Israeli contributers too?

Chinese guy goes to China and doesn’t push any commits for awhile. Simplest explanation is that “the CCP” has abducted him.

It doesn’t “involve the country known as China”. The country has nothing to do with it, which is why it stood out to me for someone to be fearmongering about China. If it was an American or Australian dev, I doubt very much that concerns would have centered around their nationality.

Chinese blobs are no more or less trustworthy than any other blobs. The Chinese government is not more or less willing or capable to force a Dev to do the bad thing.

The user above was essentially saying “never trust a Chinese developer”. That is irrational and hysterical. I would say the exact same thing if I heard someone saying “never trust a Russian/American/Indian/English/etc developer”.

You’re quite the outlier, so congrats on that. I’m pretty privacy conscious myself, so I understand that part of the attitude. What drives me crazy is the irrationality of people making hysterical claims about China that at least as accurately describe their own country.

Your phone, computer, TV, and various other electronics in your house were not made in China? You believe that your own country or mine cannot secretly compel backdoors?

Down voting for 2 reasons:

1. This article is short on factual information that says what you’re implying.
2. This is wholly irrelevant to Ventoy.

This is ridiculous. You don’t trust “Chinese maintainers” (“even if legit” lol), because the “CCP” might threaten “their family to get a backdoor inserted”.

Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don’t trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that “the CCP” is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.

Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.

Keepass hosted on my Nextcloud server. You can have the database synced to however many devices you want, and each one will always have a local copy of the latest version. You can use whatever sync solution you want though: syncthing, Dropbox, google drive etc. I suggest using diceware to generate a strong master passphrase for the database :)

Thanks very much. I’ll take a look at your suggestions.

I really should learn this habit.

Pretty much everything is frustrating to configure at first. Then I learn it and it’s not so bad. Then I don’t use it for a few years, and completely forget how! Back to step 1.

I use Nextcloud. I run it in Yunohost.

Depends on your school/classes. I had no problems. Last school I attended used MS for email etc. I got a discounted license for Office which I was able to access in the browser if/whenever LibreOffice wasn’t a good option.

Probably yes. This would be for if you are starting fresh. It is a modified Debian install.

Yunohost is self hosting. You install Debian on your computer/server at home and run the Yunohost setup script.

Yeah, I can’t fuck with Docker either. Check out Yunohost if you want something that is actually easy to get up and running.