Mastodawn

Thought I'd summarise all of my mini-achievements in trying to de-Google over the last few years, and what I'm trying to do in 2026.

https://chrisistrying.com/my-de-googling-update-april-2026

#deGoogle #technology #SelfHosting

My De-Googling Update - April 2026

A quick Google Internet search (feel free to replace our mental default of 'Google' to your search engine of choice in that sentence!) of...

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G̸u̸a̸l̸t̸i̸e̸r̸o̸2d ago

@chis_r

You should look into self hosting some of your services. An old PC or laptop should get you started.

For the dual boot, I would recommend buying a tiny USB pen drive or a SD card fast enough to run a Linux OS.

Install a Linux distro onto it, making sure you install the boot on the new drive and not on the PC hard drive. In this way you will keep the Win installation intact, and boot Linux directly from pen drive /SD card (normally pressing F12 during PC boot).

Good luck pal 🤝

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Chis-R 🐟

@ggrey thanks for the advice! For the self hosted services I'm more than happy to host them on the NAS once I learn some Docker basics, but the biggest mental hurdle for me is just working out which services I actually want to run!