Hi. First time here 
So I have a few wins:
Thatās all for this week. Iāll be back next week with even more wins 
Donāt know whether this is a privacy or a security win, but a small win for me. I managed to receive a used laptop from a friend of mine. The laptop is a couple years old, but it has hardly been used (they said it was just too slow).
So, I did what anything normal Linux enthusiast would do - transform it into a server (Nix of course). It now is going to be another extension of my homelab. Not sure what I am going to do with it yet, but hey the possibilities are endless 
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I now operate my 3D printer completely locally on the network. Internet connection has been blocked and everything still works as it should. I didnāt think this would be so easy because Bambu Labs was in very negative headlines because of their cloud compulsion. But LAN only works smoothly.
I donāt have this action āRestartā / only āShutdownā.
I am EU based if that matters.
Hopefully final win but fine if not.
Another transition to Aegis (local android) to Ente Auth. Not necessarily of the cross platform usage but rather I wanted to get comfortable enabling 2FA for most of my important services
Techlore here and now Proton!
Oh well, welcome to the forum 
Welcome to the forum, thanks for being one of the patrons!
well I did say it was fine if the wins kept piling up
Only if it counts of course.
I made this blog post as part of the wins;
Happy smartphone win for me, I have installed Calyx OS on a Fairphone!. Bye bye manually de-googled and āend of lifeā Samsung phone. I also feel like Fairphone is quite deserving of their profit through my purchase. Thatās one less (arguably big) purchase funding the big tech companies!
On Calyx OS I put all my work related apps on the special āwork profileā they made which completely isolates them from my personal activites, but they can still appear on the same homescreen, appear in the main notification bar, without having to switch profiles.
Then I configured RethinkDNS on both personal and work profile separately so that they go through different VPNs (just using different Mullvad VPN wireguard config files). Itās crazy to me I can now run 2 separate VPNās, separate firewalls, separate DNS blocklists, on the same phone at the same time, seamlessly.
A more minor privacy win, but I've been able to (mostly) get off of Spotify and instead listen to music locally on both my computer and my car. The car is more critical because it means I no longer need to connect my phone to my car anymore, but instead a simple flash drive. This is something I've previously had problems with, as the car would insist that I give it contacts and other privileges, when all I want is to play music.
I do want to stop sharing my listening history with Spotify, but I still do have it on my phone, as I only have about 128 gigabytes of storage, and I don't want to spend a fourth of that on songs. So I still need to figure out some way to get away from Spotify without having to take up so much phone storage.
Welp I have 2 wins again for April
1 I used Bluesky more often after leaving Twitter/X.com
2 I Encrypted most of my files before sharing them on Discord
How do you encrypt the files on discord, Using E2EE communication? Separate tool?
Yep I Used E2E Before Uploading to the my friends
oh nice! Keep it up
I donāt know how much music you have, but I highly suggest self-hosting a music server. It is like your own personal Spotify that can be streamed from all your devices. This is the one I personally use: https://www.navidrome.org/
Also no need to go big on hardware either, it can run on a raspberry pi, or a cheap used intel NUC for $30.
A little update.
Hey everyone! Week 50 livestream will be happening 2025-04-18T21:00:00Z at the following URL, showcasing @anon60537038:
You can join next weekās privacy wins at the following URL:
