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Vlc does not meet the wife approval factor.

Your goal is antithetical since even without tracking the LLM is still absorbing everything you say to it.

If you’re concerned, just run a local LLM and skip the web service one.

The closest project to this that I can think of would be Netbox

The bitwarden vaults themselves are encrypted with your password. So I’m not sure what there is to not trust with bitwarden, as even if files were stolen, they are encrypted so they’re largely useless.

I pay for bitwarden premium because it supports the development of a good open source project.

Edit: fixed phrasing given suggestion below

If it’s just android, you may look at Headwind mdm

https://h-mdm.com/

They have both met hostility upstream in Linux kernel and have been an active target of the extremist site KiwiFarms

Just don’t try to run huge amounts of bandwidth or try to pirate content on it and you’ll be fine. It does need a credit card on file, but it cannot charge it unless you explicity disable free tier.

You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.

This isn’t something that should really be set by users of an app. It should be set by you, as you will be the one to handle user feedback and bug reports.

That being said, bigger releases are a challenge from a debugging report standpoint because you are introducing many more changes in each release compared to a smaller number of charges in more frequent releases. This is why many devops teams in corporate land try to keep releases smaller and more frequent (see also: Agile Development)

You’ll hate to hear this and it’ll age you 50 years but… The new generation doesnt use Google unless everything else fails. They will search discord, tiktok, and ChatGPT directly first before they ever touch google 🫠

You’ll learn pretty quickly that a large chunk of self-hosting people are the types that are just terrified of having things be outside their control, which by extension means they are terrified of other people that aren’t them running infrastructure. 🫠

You don’t need the server. It happily works with searching notes as files and syncing them with syncthing.

Joplin server is a separate product that is for if you want to run a web server to sync and collaborate on notes.