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Telegram, the 'Saved' channel is very useful, good for quick note taking and sending files across devices. I consider its contents public and don't upload anything important tho.

VMs and Clusters are nothing new,neither are KVM/QEMU.

But Proxmox has given the whole thing a huge boost,made it available for smaller deployments and hobbyists and generally pushed a lot of people away from MS, the cloud and towards digital sovereignty.

I honestly use Stable Diffusion models for AI art references for any artist to recreate if they wanted to. My producer does the exact same thing.

I'm using owncloud for that but (don't hate me) I'm having to use chatgpt a LOT for the initial configuration. There's a lot of stuff I'm having to learn to get back into it and it's really good at searching docs by fuzzy match, pointing out what part of a function block isn't working, and drafting individual function blocks to experiment with (I'll comment out the original, paste in the chatgpt one, test it, etc). It's a much better experience than a decade ago and I haven't gotten emotionally abused by a more experienced person on stack overflow or reddit once yet.

I've got owncloud running as a lan only service so it just auto syncs my calendar, contacts, and a few folders of documents / pictures I like to keep with me but only whenever I'm home. Right now I'm just also configuring the same old computer to do some basic media / retro gaming on the TV and the hard part right now is configuring magic mirror as it's idle display to keep hubs and I straight on our calendars and tasks (and show some family photos). Nothing major just as I get back onto Linux after ten years it's nice to not get called lazy and stupid while I'm learning.

cloud services, unfortunately. They are just too user friendly and useful.

I've been transitioning further towards the self hosting side of things again.

Makes life easier as a near invisibly small org, given the scope of my needs doesn't generally require tons of enterprise subs or seats for the bigger stuff to get the job done.

I've been enjoying the payment app and personal information verification app in the country I moved to quite a bit. The only previous exposure I had to a centralized app-based payment and/or verification system was China's WeChat, so I had quite a bit of negative stereotypes with them... but I'm liking these a lot

For additional information: the two are separate apps. Both are private companies (I think?) heavily regulated by and strongly promoted by the EU I believe, and the latter is the de-factor verification system that is used for governmental stuff as well

Starlink.