I value privacy but lack money and have technical skills.

I used to pay $12 per year for a domain name and ran HTTP on a raspberry pi for over a decade. The tricky part was pointing the domain name to my IP address when it changed. This was made somewhat painful by the domain name company trying to up-sell other unneeded services.

apt install httpd; systemctl start httpd

That bit of code on the raspberry pi is a check box on Mac OS X 10.5: Sharing > Start Web Server.

I got rid of the domain name, and now use a subdomain on a free, no ad, web site, for now.

I try to avoid companies especially "big tech" and I don't like that the word "ecosystem" has been misappropriated. I think having sane defaults relieves a lot of the pain and cost. I believe that standards not dominated by "big tech", and regulation are helpful.

I run mostly Linux, and also Android, openbsd, and a bunch of legacy operating systems.

I use Firefox with a lot of the defaults turned off (geo, pocket, telemetry, ...) I should probably use LibreWolf. I am looking at servo and LadyBird browsers.

I've started to use git which I find very user hostile. It is, however, fairly easy to self-host git. I refuse github as it could collapse on the whim of it's owner. The enemy of open source has the power to say "goodbye" to all of those open source repos at anytime.

At the moment, I am using Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.Q6_K.llamafile because it runs locally.

I don't expect anyone to run the same things I do. I do feel very fortunate that I can. I very much appreciate open source developers that have made their software available to the public.