What is Reddit's opinion of FreedomBox?

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>I'd highly recommend installing FreedomBox. It's supported by the Debian team and can be run inside Debian, or you can install it as a standalone OS.
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>It was made for this very purpose, a simple to use home server that anyone can set up and use, as well as being able to use it as a home server for your files, you can also run other apps on it. Everything is done in a user friendly GUI, I have it running on a Raspberry Pi. It's honestly so simple to set up and use that a child could do it. You can either install is inside an existing Linux distro as it's hosted in the Debian repositoties, or you can download and install it as a standalone OS either from their site https://freedombox.org/ or you can get it from the Debian website https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Download
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>If you only want to use the laptop as a server then this is likely the best way to go, it's very user friendly with no CLI to worry about and everything works out of the box. It's fast too, as your laptop won't be full of all the other files needed to run a full distro, it just has what you need for your home server.
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>Edit: Forgot to add that it's free and open source too, perfect!

Setting VPN can be easy or not depens on your network and what you are trying to achieve.

For instance you can follow some OpenVPN tuts to create the vpn and create keys for each client etc. Then these clients can connect to the server and can communicate with the server. This part can be easy because all the communication will be done over the Vpn tunnel and the subnet. The issue you will hit is if you were to access your own network subnet (like your actual wifi network) from outside then it gets complicated because the traffic needs to be routed. Or you might want to route the whole internet traffic of the client over VPn, that can be sticky too.

It all depends on your goals and your means when it comes to Vpn. I find OpenVpn to be convoluted to setup, I use Tinc Vpn now.

Btw if you are starting over trying this might be a better option for you

https://freedombox.org/

https://freedombox.org/

"FreedomBox provides a secure, decentralized replacement for WhatsApp. Do group chats and audio/video calls from any device."

This is pretty underrated, a very full featured self hosted solution.

Virtual Private Server is like VPN, the service provider has control over your data, and promises to look the other way. They can betray you at will.

What you should be doing, is manage your own data with your own server. The problem here is mainly that consumers don't have access to persistent IP-addresses.

So what you'll want, is self-hosted Tor Onion Services where possible. Look into https://freedombox.org/ that makes a lot of it quite easy.

Instant messengers like Signal, Cwtch and Briar are much more secure and private compared to the best email providers. For email, you should probably register and use e.g. protonmail via their Tor Onion Service. Hosting your own email server a) sucks b) sucks big time, because your emails will get caught in every spam filter out there.

So my advice is keep your work email for "official stuff", use private instant messaging for everything else.

Very cool! You may want to look into running A relay, your own hidden service, or at least a bridge. Theres plenty to write about there too. https://community.torproject.org/relay/

Alao worth a look; https://freedombox.org/

It means their website should be compared to something else, probably the kind of load a second hand server for less money could also handle just fine, probably could handle more.

Whatever happens, I hope eventually we can get back to more people wanting to run something like: https://freedombox.org/ at their home.

I can imagine people just getting 3 devices at home to be their IoT hubs combined with being WiFI APs for their home and everything else they care about it. Kubernetes containers and replicated or something.

Salut,

Tu peux regarder le projet freedombox de Debian.

https://freedombox.org

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox

Ce n’est pas un équivalent de owncloud mais tu as une solution sécurisée clef en main.

J’utilise la solution en auto-hébergement mais c’est un meta-paquet Debian que tu peux déployer dans un IaaS.

Tu peux avec un tout petit peu de bidouille en faire ton front d’une solution de gestion de fichiers et gérer finement la sécurité applicative depuis l’admin web.

I understand that they offer a pre-configured system with updates however I still think they are overpriced. For comparison the FreedomBox is a very similar free software distribution and plug-n-play hardware is sold by Olimex. A Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK + a 512 GB SSD sets you back 140 € which is closer to the price of the components.

I've recently set up a Freedombox server on a Raspberry Pi that I can access from anywhere with its own private onion URL. Finding it really useful so far, especially the ability to use Searx as a private search engine.

Please explore FreedomBox. Its fantastic for a beginner.

It is part of Debian. And you can start it from an old computer at home. See manual / instructions.

You can download Freedombox for the Beagle Bone Black: https://freedombox.org/download/beagleboneblack/

So I quess the BeagleV could be an option.

However: Developers still need to port Freedombox over to BeagleV (which will take some time). Besides: From what I can tell BeagleV is a new system and has not yet been released. It has only been announced.

I run old laptops as servers, it's cheap and as long as there aren't a lot of users they work well enough for my use case.

1. Matrix: Freedombox is a debian based "distro" that lets you setup a lot of sever components, including a hassle free matrix server. Super easy and done through GUI, automatic lets encrypt certs can be set up as well.
2. Nextcloud: I absolutely love the Nextcloud snap. It's developed by the nextcloud team, and it's as simple as install, set up HTTP and HTTPS ports, put in one command to set up automatic lets encrypt certs, and then log in to create your first user.
3. Private email: This I haven't done. If you run this on bare metal, you have to make sure your ISP does not actively block the ports used for typical email messages.

Since it hasn't been mentioned, I can highly recommend https://freedombox.org/ (with Radicale) as an easy to use home server alternative to NextCloud (depending on the features you need) which I use for de-googled android syncing. Either way, Davx5 is the app side of the calendar/contacts sync.