My Tech Stack, as a privacy advocate

Privacy matters and cannot be sold to the highest biter. If you earn from my data, I want part of those earnings! We can enter a contract, and I will tell you what is allowed and how much I want from the deal you are making.

Lets start out with the worst offender, which is the smart phone.

Naomi Brockwell does an amazing job explaining this in her video that you can find here . She has really good content.

I use GrapheneOS. I do use a Sim card but that is for a different reason. I was not able to get a Wi-Fi G5 router that would run my Hotspot sim that I got from the Calyx Institute.

I have multiple profiles setup that cannot communicate across the profiles, all have a purpose.

I also use MySudo and have multiple phone numbers, if one gets compromised and spam comes rolling in, I dispose of it a create a new one. They are also used in different profiles for different use cases. I use F-droid and Aurora Store for app downloads.

And the app Greyjay to what anything on YouTube and co.

Instead on SMS I use Signals hardened app called Molly. But I am looking into Elements, or another messenger that can use SMS as well. For my home labs I use a dedicated windows machine, as this is the most commonly used OS in enterprise settings.

For running a Linux distro, older light weight models do the job. Now for the much heavier Windows, use a larger machine.

I personally use CachyOS setup on an old HP laptop, this as you might already have guessed, also uses multiple profiles.

I have an old nonfunctioning HP laptop that I am in the process of fixing. There was a kernel issues and it refuses to boot or be reimaged. So, I took it apart and will upgrade necessary parts. My old, very old, mini-Macintosh has come back to life, but mostly I use that OC to practice MAC and Troubleshooting it.

Another laptop I have houses OmarchyOS on it. But to be quite frank, it's still intimidating. I can't even get the external monitors to work. But I will master it one day.

I have multiple RaspberryPis, one is a dedicated home server running UmbrelOS. This I built, flashed as well as configured myself as well. It houses my photo sharing server and other services I do not intend to outsource.

I am setting up on that will act as my VPN and use piHole.

I have an offline password manager; it is an old Casio Digital Diary (SF 330er 32kb).

I use it solely as an air gaped device.

For notetaking I use Obsidian, for anything office related I use LibreOffice, for email I use Proton mail and Simple login (Tuta is also a great alternative), as a browser I use Brave or Mulvad and of course Onion, Mulvad VPN as my VPN of choice, and on the computer, I also I also use have a Password manager called KeePass for any browsing non important sites.

For file/folder encryption I use: Cryptomator.

For getting into the internet, I have multiple ISP. I use Fiber, Satellite and a Hotspot. This means I have multiple switches and routers. The Starlink Router and the Spitz AX (GL-X3000). The second is used to bridge the star link and Hotspot sim card, to be a backup

This list is not extensive. But that's a glimpse of my stack :)