https://emasblog.dev/tags/privacy/Recent content in Privacy on Emanuel's BlogHugoen-USTue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://emasblog.dev/posts/2026/04/i-took-back-control-of-my-digital-life/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://emasblog.dev/posts/2026/04/i-took-back-control-of-my-digital-life/<p>There&rsquo;s a moment every person who runs their own server remembers: the first time a service you depend on goes down, changes its pricing or simply decides to terminate its activity. For me, it wasn&rsquo;t a single dramatic incident, it was a slow accumulation of small frustrations: a photo app recommending I upgrade storage, a music streaming service raising its price again, a recipe app going behind a paywall. Until one day I opened a terminal and decided I was done renting my own digital life.</p>