I have Spotify Premium Duo for son & I, Youtube Premium Family (I pay for son and I & got 4 of my friends to join so we split the cost), Voxa - audiobooks for son, NovelAI for son (some story writing tool I guess, to be honest I don’t really know what this one does exactly). No movie / TV show streaming services cause I have Filelist (torrents) and the world wide web.
None so far
Might get a vpn if I ever build a nas
Don’t buy it - build it (if it’s within your technical comfort zone). Self hosted VPNs are cheaper and you’re not entrusting your privacy to a third party (as much).
Ok that’s interesting, how can I build it? Cuz it sounds hard and possibly more expensive.😅
I suppose I have to somehow rent a server or rent physical rooms across my continent to put my servers (and buy internet connection for each location) to maintain a network. Plus set up the network. Isnt that too complicated? Is there any easier solution?😅
The easiest route is to buy a server from someone like digital ocean, set up a VPN daemon, register a cert with it (that’s the hardest technical part) then set up something like openVPN on your client machine and install a matching cert there.
OpenVPN runs just fine with self signed certs. No need to pay for anyone for that. Easy-RSA package even has nice scripts for you to run. Obviously that becomes a chore pretty fast if you need more than a handful of clients, but maintaining those for yourself and your spouse and kids it’s easy enough.
And, assuming you have public IPV4 address on your internet connection, you can use dyndns service and run all of that on a raspberry pi (or almost whatever you happen to choose). OpenVPN with mobile devices is a bit more challenging, but you can run OpenSwan for IPSEC or some other daemon as well, which might work better for your use case.