Meanwhile I applied for reimbursement on my failing Pixel 6a battery and Google keep asking for proof that I own this phone. They won’t even allow it on RCS. The trust issue goes both ways.

I do find it suspicious that governments are targeting Signal’s E2E encryption but not RCS, FB Messenger or WhatsApp. It’s clear which ones are compromised.

I did this a few months back.

Some things aren’t as great, but you get full control and your server idles way better on JellyFin.

I set up my postfix server so that anything after a hyphen (“-”) becomes a wildcard. It like Gmail’s “plus addressing”, but the hyphen is more subtle. It means multiple users can make infinite aliases on one domain.

So, “user@domain.com” has the same mailbox as “user-somesuffix@domain.com”.

The educational route I took was Hurricane Electric’s free IPv6 online course. It taught me a bunch of networking principles. When you finish the course (and get “sage” status), you get free lifetime DNS access. This includes dynamic DNS that automatically updates when your IP address changes.

Because of this, I can self-host on a basic residential plan without paying for any additional services.