I used to use OpenVPN as a means to connect to my internal network from outside of my house. It worked really well, but managing its configs was a little bit of a hassle and, frankly, OpenVPN is old news (/s). I wanted to play with a new toy.

So I looked into Wireguard.

Server Config

Since I use Home Assistant and it has Add-Ons available available, I decided to use its Wireguard Add-On.

As I mentioned in my Qutebrowser article, my browser doesn’t have the ability to share bookmarks with my other browsers. I run Chrome on my phone and Chrome on my Chromebook. And I have a second Linux laptop that also runs Qutebrowser.

I needed a solution to share bookmarks between them. And I settled on Linkding.

My Search

I looked through Reddit r/selfhost and scoured the web looking at different self-hosted bookmark services I could run at home.

These days, it’s more important than ever to find a good web browser: one that’s easy to use, has the functionality you want, and, most importantly, is reasonably secure. It’s also a good idea to consider the privacy features the browser has too.

Too many of the popular browsers have privacy issues (Chrome sharing info with Google, Edge sharing info with Microsoft, Brave sharing info with…).