The question is mainly for those who are using an IaC approach, where you can (relatively) easily recover your environment from scratch (apart from using backups). And only for simple cases, when you have a physical machine in your house, no cloud.

What is your approach? K8s/helm charts? Ansible? Hell of bash scripts? Your own custom solution?

I'm trying Ansible right now: https://github.com/MrModest/homeserver

But I'm a bit struggling with keeping it from becoming a mess. And since I came from strict static typisation world, using just a YAML with linter hurts my soul and makes me anxious 😅 Sometimes I need to fight with wish of writing a Kotlin DSL for writing YAML files for me, but I want just a reliable working home server with covering edge cases, not another pet-project to maintain 🥲

Is there any selfhosted solution that allows you to dodge the websites' fingerprinting.

VPN/Proxy isn't enough, because the main data that makes you be identified as the same person on several different websites given by your web browser. Not the IP address.

So I thought, maybe there should be a way to either to use

• A special browser that randomize your cookies/headers/etc per each request/website/time-interval (day/week/month), so on the data-harvester side they will have a bunch of "different persons" instead of you alone going on YouTube, PornHub and your favorite political party website.

• Or maybe, there's a selfhosted "men in the middle" who will decrypt all my outcomes traffic, mess up with all cookies/headers/etc and decrypt it again, so each request will be reasonably unique. Of course, to do so you need to generate a root certificate for your MitM and trust it on each your devices, but since this is my personal "good" MitM, it should be safe, right? (Sorry, I'm not so good in the Security topics 😅)

Is there a tool that allows you to organize/group/tag your APK files? Like, having a list of applications with names and descriptions and files attached to it. (Kinda selfhosted oversimplified version of Android apps store).

Yeah, most of the time you're okay with Google Play (but even though, some people might don't like to use it because of privacy).

At some extend, F-Droid does have FOSS apps (but even though, it doesn't have bookmarks feature), but for new phones with arm64-only support, it could just not have available option (because of limit of bundle size, you can download a working APK only from developer's GitHub).

So, sometimes you have to keep a ton of APK files locally (especially if you use a lot modded versions of applications) and it quickly becomes a mess (multiply files per each app, etc).