Thinking that someone without a formal education is somehow beneath you.

Chess champion in the making?

Here’s something different. I use several external USB drives with mergeFS + EXT4 to backup my file server (LVM + EXT4).

We went through all this already with Amazon and their Echo.

Never trust a web app with a pdf that contains sensitive data.

The web is Iost cause. You can choose to leave. There are projects out there like Gemini.

Word of warning for those looking to host their own. Last I checked Ipfs is not an anonymous network. Not sure how, or even if, this is addressed in the project. A little info on this would be nice.

If you enjoy over engineering things check out beancount (or ledger/hledger)!

Hyperboria is using cjdns to connect local mesh networks to each other.

https://hyperboria.net/

https://projectmeshnet.github.io/