mine XMR on a few computers

I don’t work but I use a script using w3m to print HTML as text. You can find those in the aerc repo.

aerc with mbsync and msmtp and neovim for composing

I don’t really care about phones and my parents give me their old iPhones for free.

App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

Alpine is great on the desktop too! I use it on all my desktops, laptops and servers.

I kind of prefer mini flux but I maintain the freshrss package in Alpine so I have an instance to test things.

foot

I have 5 servers in total. All except the iMac are running Alpine Linux.

Internet

Ziply fiber 100mb small business internet. 2 Asus AX82U Routers running in AiMesh.

Rack

Raising electronics 27U rack

N3050 Nuc’s

One is running mailcow, dnsmasq, unbound and the other is mostly idle.

iMac

The iMac is setup by my 3d printers. I use it to do slicing and I run BlueBubbles on it for texting from Linux systems.

Family Server

Hardware

• I7-7820x
• Rosewill rackmount case
• Corsair water cooler
• 2 4tb drives
• 2 240gb ssd
• Gigabyte motherboard

Mostly doing nothing, currently using it to mine Monero.

Main Cow Server

Hardware

• R7-3900XT
• Rosewill rackmount case
• 3 18tb drives
• 2 1tb nvme
• Gigabyte motherboard

Services

• ZFS 36TB Pool
• Secondary DNS Server
• NFS (nas)
• Samba (nas)
• Libvirtd (virtual macines)
• forgejo (git forge)
• radicale (caldav/carddav)
• nut (network ups tools)
• caddy (web server)
• turnserver
• minetest server (open source blockgame)
• miniflux (rss)
• freshrss (rss)
• akkoma (fedi)
• conduit (matrix server)
• syncthing (file syncing)
• prosody (xmpp)
• ergo (ircd)
• agate (gemini)
• chezdav (webdav server)
• podman (running immich, isso, peertube, vpnstack)
• immich (photo syncing)
• isso (comments on my website)
• matrix2051 (matrix to irc bridge)
• peertube (federated youtube alternative)
• soju (irc bouncer)
• xmrig (Monero mining)
• rss2email
• vpnstack
  • gluetun
  • qbittorrent
  • prowlarr
  • sockd
  • sabnzbd

Alpine Linux edge

I would not suggest mastodon for such low powered hardware, its also overkill for a personal instance. Akkoma or GotoSocial would work much better on a Pi. The annual cost is pretty much just 3-15$/year for the domain name.

My home directory is a git repo with a .gitignore that contains something like

*

!.config/sway

!.config/sway/*

!.config/sway/**/*

It’s an environment variable. I have MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true in my sway wrapper script.

Zoom does not work in wayland

The zoom Linux client is crappy so if the web one does not work for you I would suggest just booting into windows and using it.

Fuzzel is also nice if you are using Wayland.

For purely just privacy I would say custom rom android > iphone > stock android > samsung android.