Ahhh, good point! I definitely know about Virtualbox. I shall try that. Thanks!!

Thanks! I hope you do, as well!

I don’t currently have a RPi or any SBC though.

Good luck to you, as well friendly stranger!

Thanks! That is good advice and I will begin doing that to try to familiarize myself with the CLI.

Thanks for the advice. I am using Trilium to create a knowledge base as I go, and I am keeping meticulous notes on my progress, successes and failures.

Do you know anywhere that I could find a guide on how to set that up correctly? I’ve used SyncThing in the very recent past and it ended up being not good because of my own ignorance. I have syncthing on my phone and my desktop, but neither of them are syncing anything to anywhere. I’m terrified that I will mess something up and possibly lose data, or end up with a gigantic mess of files that do not belong in the synced directory. That’s what happened the only time I ever did use Syncthing. For some reason, it basically transferred a gigantic directory of things that were not relevant at all from my PC to my phone, filling up all of the storage and it was a hassle to get rid of everything that was not supposed to be there. I REALLY want the KeePass databases on my phone and on my main PC to communicate and update each other though. Entering everything in twice has been frustrating.

I was a member of r/selfhosted before I abandoned reddit altogether, but I’m not familiar with /c/selfhosted. May I ask what the C is?

I haven’t actually began to use it yet because first I am trying to understand the framework and fundamental basics of what it is that I am attempting to do. When I get a grasp on that, I will definitely be using YUNO and overwhelmingly likely will donate a good sum of money to that project.

Hello again, thanks again for the great advice. I have a question though. The traditional network model that you mention…is that also sometimes reffered to as the OSI Model? Are the two the same thing? I just want to make sure that I am studying the correct thing.

Good luck to you! I had never heard of Jolla before. That’s very cool. Im in the US and am so far unsure if Jolla products are marketed or even supported here. More investigating!

Yes, I’m definitely trying to understand the “why” of what it is that I am doing. I’m just going to be using YUNO as a starting point.

Oh my god, you were right. Yuno is AMAZINGLY useful for exactly what it is that I am attempting to do!

Sevral people have mentioned Yuno and I’m going to look into it shortly. Thanks for the input!

Thanks for the advice. Currently, I have a backup of all of my important data on a high capacity HDD that is completely disconnected from any devices. There is no real way to automate backups with that setup, but it’s what I am working with at the moment.

Amazing, thanks for sharing. I understand Riseup and Disroot and the missions of each, but I’m having a bit of trouble with Tildeverse , likely because I am not well versed in *nix operating systems as of yet. I’m going to commence to reading up on all of these!

Thanks for the suggestions! Someone else has mentioned YUNOHost and that is definitely on my radar and my mental list of things to look into!

I have set up KeePassXC and KeepassDX, but that’s about as far as I have gotten thus far. I’m currently trying to figure out Obsidian for notes and a general knowledge base.

This seems to be an extremely valuable resource. I love the GitHub awesome lists, and I definitely starred this one as a reference point!

Nice! Yes, photo storage and backup as well as note sync, reminder sync, calendar, etc. are all very important micro services to me.