One of the things that I’ve always tried to implement on all the services I run is self-sufficiency. Now, this isn’t completely achievable, in the sense that I still depend on services and software that other people provide, but it’s still an ideal to strive for. In my particular case, all the services I run are self-hosted with no external dependencies, either from a raspberry pi I host at home, or a small VPS that I rent from a provider.

excipiō (present infinitive excipere, perfect active excēpī, supine exceptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to take out, extract, pull out
2. to except, exempt from, exclude
3. to rescue, release
4. to host, accommodate, welcome

Let me start by establishing some ethos here, which I think might be important: I deleted my Instagram account in 2013; my Facebook account went in 2015 (well, technically only 2016 because it turns out that I had only “deactivated” it at first, but oh well); I don’t use Spotify, Netflix, or any other streaming service; my phone, even though it’s Android, has Google Play Services disabled for 95% of the time; I run my own e-mail server, self-host my blog, don’t even use Google (or an AI) for searching anymore. Oh, and even though I’ve mentioned this in the about page, I’ve used Linux full-time on my desktop and servers for pretty much 20 years at this point - I’ve an allergic reaction to Windows.