I assume you are from Russia since you speak in first person, however, if the laws are so stringent against self hosting or private hosting, why is it a large portion of Warez sites emanate from Russia? They exist all over really, but it seems a lot of the very popular ones are in Russia.

because you might be surprised, but warez is not illegal in Russia. We have slightly different legislation in the field of intellectual property. Only the person who profits from warez can be held responsible. That is, either an organization that uses it commercially, or a seller. If I break the software or record a movie for the sake of art or love for my neighbor without money or donations it's legal. of course, websites are responsible even if they receive income from advertising, well, many of them are blocked for Russians. I go to rutracker via VPN =)

But just try to talk with a voice call via telegram... You won't be able to do that, because direct calls without anti-threat systems (i.e., after completely listening in on calls) are illegal.

UPD: how that look right now

It is impossible to place telephone nodes in Russia without equipping the server with threat protection equipment. Of course, I won't buy a box for hundreds of dollars to use a home PBX, so technically I'm outside the law. =) It is also impossible to host sites with more than 10,000 visitors without registering with Roskomnadzor. and all accounts with authorization must support logging in through the public services portal or by phone number. considering that only legal entities can do this, of course I don't do it.

The United States and the European Union have data protection laws, so if you decide to save money on hosting for friends and install a server outside the Eurozone, depending on the data you store, you are also formally violating the law.

well, in fact, you will literally be like Google. maybe there really are some subtleties, I'm not sure because I've never lived in the USA. the only difference will be how much it will cost. In the end, you won't be able to provide a mailbox for free and not trade data.

UPD: the organization has completely different service requirements. Even for non-profit organizations, no one will wait a day for you to return from work and remember the service.

so why you think that a public pool of docker images is as secure as an aqua checked image in Google's infrastructure? It's a mystery to me. An ordinary user like Hilary can be checked even without a warrant, it's enough to are plenty of vulnerabilities already.

As someone who has been building infrastructure for over 10 years, I can say that friendship is one thing, but no one is willing to share sensitive data with their friends. People prefer to use services out of border, not self hosted.

UPD: of all my friends, only 7 agreed to use mail on my domain, and after moving from Google Workspace to a private server, only three remained. one of them simply transfers mail to another mailbox, just in case. this is the result. not theoretical, but real.

Well, I don't work in the USA, but in a telecom company, and I can say that if you really need it, they will just kick down the door and seize the server. no matter what. and a campaign interested in business is, after all, more technologically advanced than some guy who set up a server based on guides on the Internet. you won't need to take anything from him, with a fairly weak literacy, it's enough just to intentionally make a mistake in the public guide. Do you remember Hillary Clinton's private email server case?

this can't be a hardware problem other than the power supply, because judging by the screenshot, the disks have already been initialized, which means the entire kernel has loaded into RAM and even libraries have started loading. first you need to read dmesg and check exactly where the log stopped. rather than testing everything.

I do not know about Amazon, but in telephony you simply have to install a threat management system in accordance with the law. I think Amazon has the same thing. if there is a court decision, the servers will be arrested or a request for data will be received. It's exactly the same thing.

what is configured on the server may or may not be enabled. and your neighbor just knows some of your data (your name, address, etc.), which increases the likelihood of an attack. To an Amazon engineer, you're just bytes out of nowhere.

the normal story would be to encrypt everything on the client before anything gets to the server at all. but who exactly is going to bother so much? in this case, you might as well upload a bunch of encrypted data to Google.

so you're suggesting storing sensitive data, work documents, passwords, not from a company with which there are at least some legal agreements, but from a neighbor, simply because you see him from time to time? what could possibly go wrong...

UPD: By the way, if we are talking about a state, your neighbor will be approached in the same way as Google, because everyone in the country obeys the same laws.

The average person doesn't understand anything about technology and probably won't even be able to install an operating system. The Internet literally became what it is now precisely because everything was left to corporations. For example, sip telephony is as decentralized and secure as possible, but how many people keep their own telephone exchange? therefore, it is more realistic for the average person to simply use services outside the jurisdiction of the state than to install something on their own. In some countries, it is also illegal to engage in self-hosting.

but if we talk about people who are interested enough, then yes, you can do self-hosting. However, people who are ready to understand at least a little, for example, according to the latest steam statistics, make up about 5% of the total mass.

try read dmesg

5 years if I can't flash open rom and nearly 7 years if I can.

KeePassXC. I think you can install client on every OS.