Untied myself from monthly subscription payments: old laptop + ~300 EUR Upgrade

AdGuard is a russian spyware

What's the point of hosting your own "cloud storage". Is it just disk backup with extra steps? Or just lets you share files with others?

... You pay?!

I didn't even know you could pay for Google Drive.

PiHole

why the fuck would you pay for any of those to begin with. Half doesn't even have a pay option.

Or… you become a pirate for media, use brave for vpn/adblock, and save your files on a harddrive instead of cloudservice

- netflix and yt music: So you create now your own content? - photos/drive/ad blocker. Sure that works. - vpn: There are 2 major use cases: 1. security/privacy between your own distributed devices. That can be self-hosted and cheap, even server-less. (e.g. wireguard). 2. location

delete plex and install jellyfin like the pros

OP was paying for adblockers lmao