I was an Apple fan girl until Trump started making his 51st state threats, Tim Cook gave Trump that Golden Apple trophy or plaque and I became even less of an Apple fan girl. I have replaced all of my apple services with either Canada hosted or self hosted and the *arr stack. I refuse to use Microsoft stuff now, I was cool with it when the MSN days where the chat tool of choice, it was not cool but I used OpenOffice to save things in the .doc formate in university but I stuck with Apple for everything else. I am stuck with iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS until I can afford to replace those but I have moved to a Debian fork for the raspberry pi for everything else.

I self host immich, to replace Apple photos. I self host NextCloud, to replace iCloud. I self host Valtwarden, to replace Apple passwords. I self host Jellyfin, to replace almost every US media company I use Unwatched to remove google ads from youtube. I self host Home Assistant as I am on the way to replace Apple Home, I get closer every other day or so. If I had the money I would be replacing my ring camera and doorbell with something that worked better with Home Assistant.

As of today I stepped up my ad blocking with self hosting searXNG, it is an internet search engine. I say stepped up my ad blocking because of my piholes, Unwatched, and using different emails for everything. If I could I would find more ways to block ads because most of what I see are hosted by Google and are for US services.