I used the IP + MAC address of the devices I want to block.

Thank you.

To your point, one example that comes to mind is that I have read many people complaining about cloudflare, saying it’s “evil” and over extending. While I agree on the aspect of Cloudflare being sort of a monopoly, I am not sure what else to use to route some of my traffic to my services running at home without explicitly opening up ports to the internet by using a reverse proxy for example.

In that regard, Cloudflare has access to my traffic and data could theoretically leak that way, but I am not sure what is a safer and better alternative to it.

I feel I am missing out on other things and that I could do much better though.

Like you said, aside from a tinfoil hat, I think my setup is very basic and can be improved.

I ordered it yesterday 😂

Thanks for the suggestion though. I really appreciate it.

I would be more than glad to connect and learn from more experienced people. DM is fine or do you prefer something else?

Aside from iOS, I am already there. Soon enough, I hope, I will migrate from Apple’s ecosystem. Already have my Linux box setup and functional recently. One step at a time.

Not taking it to the extreme here, being more realistic with what can be done in today’s society.

Can’t really move to the woods and be cut off from the internet, sadly enough that’s not something we can do nowadays.

Not headless last I tried, unless that changed recently.