Part 20/A — Self-Hosted Spotify on a Raspberry Pi: Finding Music You’re Allowed to Keep
Where to get music you can legally keep for a self-hosted library, from Bandcamp to netlabels, plus the YouTube route and its risks.
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Part 18 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: A Self-Hosted Messenger Hub That Refuses to Sell You Out
Replacing the increasingly freemium Rambox with Ferdium, a fully-free messenger aggregator, self-hosting its optional sync server on a Raspberry Pi behind nginx so no chat metadata ever touches a third party.
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Talking to My Linux Box Without Talking to the Cloud: Vocalinux on Debian, Without the Tears
Getting Vocalinux — a fully offline, GPU-accelerated voice dictation tool — working on Debian, past three undocumented build hurdles Ubuntu users never see.
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Part 17 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Your Privacy-Preserving DNS Leaves Home Too — DoH, DoT, and a Pi-hole You Can Actually Take With You
Taking Pi-hole and DNSCrypt-Proxy on the road with dnsdist, nginx-terminated DoH/DoT, and EDNS Client Subnet — so remote devices get encrypted, filtered, per-client DNS anywhere in the world.
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Part 16 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: True Remote Access Freedom via Battle-Tested NGINX and No External Gatekeepers
Dropping Cloudflare Tunnel for a self-hosted NGINX reverse proxy with a Namecheap DDNS wildcard certificate, UFW firewall blocklists, and mutual TLS as an extra zero-trust layer.
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Part 14 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Host Your Own Secure Chat Server for True Privacy
Self-hosting a federated Matrix homeserver with Keycloak SSO, a Cloudflare Worker for the well-known federation lookup, and the DNS and memory gotchas that came with running it long-term.
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Part 7 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Seamless Torrenting via Running Transmission Securely Behind a VPN
Running Transmission behind an always-on OpenVPN tunnel in Docker, exposing it remotely via Cloudflare Tunnel or NGINX, and sharing the download directory back to the LAN over NFS.
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Part 6 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Breaking Free from Big Cloud and Self-Hosting Nextcloud for Total Privacy and Control
Self-hosting Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi with MariaDB and Redis, exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel or NGINX, plus the occ commands and cron job that keep it healthy long-term.
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Part 5 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Password management with Bitwarden
Self-hosting Vaultwarden as a Bitwarden-compatible password vault, exposed remotely via Cloudflare Tunnel, with a hardened NGINX config as the alternative reverse-proxy path.
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Part 3 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Protect the DNS communication of your entire home
Combining Pi-hole and dnscrypt-proxy in Docker for network-wide, encrypted DNS — plus the NULL-blocking-mode default that quietly breaks your own reverse proxy.
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How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: The Ultimate Self-Hosting Series
Kicking off a self-hosting series by building the hardware foundation for a Raspberry Pi 5 home server — NVMe SSD HAT, cooling, full-disk LUKS encryption with USB-key auto-decryption, and moving swap off the SD card.
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