Ocelot

I do this pretty much everywhere, but mainly for 2 reasons:

• If I close the account and never want to hear from them again, filter out the alias
• If I receive junk mail to that address, I know where it was leaked from

I do this by a catch-all on my own personal domain, so anything@mydomain.com will get sent to my inbox. I generate random strings/words/names for every email.

Not exactly what you’ve asked for but you can download something like lidarr and plug it into your spotify recommendations and let it go. you’ll wind up with a huge library of everything you like to listen to.

It would more than likely be a stream of different colored bars representing bits or something, you would need a LOT of video to store any reasonable amount of data and have it get through youtube’s compression.

Right, the concern is that is true until it isn’t safe. Someone is going to be the first to be charged.

that makes me think graphics driver maybe? Check dmesg output right after it happens, you might see something getting reset.

not sure how long ago that was but duplicati can now validate backups via checksum every time after writing somewhere

Are you able to open it to the internet and put these services behind an auth proxy? that might be the way to do it. Or if it already has login you might be able to put it behind a cloudflare WAF or similar and restrict bots and bad actors.

encrypt your data and encode it as a file. Upload it to youtube. Infinite storage!

jk dont do this. or do. it might be funny

Duplicati docker container works pretty well

This feels like something that should be used with a VPN. Be careful.

Its one of those services where I don’t mind it since they use all that data to improve and personalize the experience. Its able to tell me exactly at a glance how long to get someplace because it knows where I am and where I live. It knows to recommend certain types of places based on where I’ve been, and it has an ENORMOUS userbase with tons of reviews for even the tiniest places. It will automatically update operating hours for stores etc by ‘robo-calling’ them and asking an employee greatly reducing the number of calls they take… on and on and on. Is it “creepy”? yeah maybe but honestly who cares.

I even have timeline turned on. It remembers exactly when I went someplace. Like I was at a car dealership 6 months ago and needed to find a receipt they sent me in my email that I couldnt find otherwise… Check timeline to see when I was there and reference emails from that day, there it is.

Also I weirdly consider the need that I might need to use it as an alibi someday.

I’m completely de-googled otherwise. The places I go just honestly aren’t and never will be that interesting.

Unraid works this way too. Its perfectly fine as long as you keep frequent writes off it. Use ramdisk when you need scratch space.

create a separate macvlan network and have each container get its own unique IP. Its bad security practice to have it share the host network anyway.

Im pretty happy with protonmail. Email is kind of important you may not want to go with the cheapest option.

ditch torrents. usenet is still alive and kicking

That really depends, are you looking for an actual filesystem or (for real) object level storage? Does the frontend have compatibility with s3-type endpoints?

I would recommend a vpn like tailscale to encrypt traffic and not expose your local env to the internet

Here are some self-hosted s3 compatible options: https://geekflare.com/self-hosted-s3/

Although I think you might want to reconsider your architecture here. If you’re planning on self-hosting the storage for a frontend hosted on a VPS somewhere latency is probably going to make for a pretty bad experience.