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Sovereign Living by Chris Almida
Thoughts, stories and ideas centered around sovereign living.

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23
Apr
Cloudflare with * certificates and Traefik

Cloudflare with * certificates and Traefik

So — in breaking from delivering the next part of the Foundations of Sovereign Self-Hosting series, I am, by request, publishing
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05
Apr
Part 2: Media Players - The Heart of Your System

Part 2: Media Players - The Heart of Your System

Foundations of Sovereign Self-Hosting Welcome to Part 2 of the Foundations of Sovereign Self-Hosting series. In this post, we’ll
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22
Mar
but wait there's more!

but wait there's more!

So why am I doing this? Why go through all this trouble to self-host and rebuild a media server stack from scratch? Well, let's back up a bit and I'll show you how I got here.
3 min read
21
Mar
Foundations of Sovereign Self-Hosting

Foundations of Sovereign Self-Hosting

This guide is geared toward newcomers who want to take control of their own media experience with a sovereign, self-hosted setup.
3 min read
21
Feb
Sovereign Living: The Power of Integrity Beyond External Judgment

Sovereign Living: The Power of Integrity Beyond External Judgment

The Courage to Live Sovereignly To live sovereignly is to live in full alignment with your highest truth—unapologetically, without
4 min read
29
Jan
OpenAI Sam Altman characterization melting down to news of DeepSeek

AI Meltdown

The TLDR is that a Chinese company released, as an open-source project, an AI model that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 in some scenarios and did so with a mere $5.6M investment—pennies compared to OpenAI’s billions.
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24
Jan
Why Self-Hosting?

Why Self-Hosting?

Now that I have relaunched lifeonbtc as Living Sovereign by Chris Almida, I want to expand upon the why behind self-hosting from my perspective and how it relates to Living Sovereign.
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22
Jan
Welcome to Living Sovereign by Chris Almida.

Welcome to Living Sovereign by Chris Almida.

This is the new home and rebrand of the Substack blog LifeonBTC. 100% selfhosted and 100% expanded beyond freedom money
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08
Jan
Cloudflare Tunnels, Traefik and self-hosted services

Cloudflare Tunnels, Traefik and self-hosted services

In my case in addition to this blog, there are several services we consume outside of our local network like audiobookshelf for listening to audio books, mealie for recipe access via the phone when cooking (no Wi-Fi in our house) and immich for backing up photos from our phone.
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19
Apr
BIP 42

BIP 42

The answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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