Since DHH has been promoting the 'do-it-yourself' approach, many people have fallen for it. You're asking the right questions that only a few people know they need answers to. In my opinion, the closest thing to "reclaiming the stack" while still being a PaaS is to use a "deploy to your cloud account" PaaS provider. These services offer the convenience of a PaaS provider, yet allow you to "eject" to using the... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Flightcontrol.dev - Deploy web services, databases, and more on your own AWS account with a Git push style workflow. Free tier for users with 1 developer on personal GitHub repos. AWS costs are billed through AWS, but you can use credits and the AWS free tier. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Have you seen https://www.flightcontrol.dev/? It might help you out with that infrastructure issue with the ease of PaaS! Source: almost 4 years ago

Flightcontrol.dev is also pretty interesting if for some reason you want to deploy directly on AWS. Source: about 4 years ago

Flightcontrol.dev is what you're looking for. Source: over 4 years ago

> You can partially protect yourself with https://netguard.me/ Looks good. Another alternative would be TrackerControl. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

In your given scenario (no Google Services, no microG), compatibility is the issue. I dont use Android because I like it. I use it because I am forced to use it, without it I cant connect to corporate VPN, cant even take public transport (actually I can use NFC card and take a lot of care never to lose money on it, to drive to first place where I can charge it). Banking software. Update firmware for my headset.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

There is OpenSnitch [0] on Linux, but it us a bit clumsy to setup. I tried it once and didn't get far, but have it again on my todo list. Not aware of something similar on Linux. On Android there is NetGuard [1] which is awesome (not affiliated, just a happy customer). [0] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Netguard if you want to use it on Android https://netguard.me/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Additionally to an OpenWRT [1] Wi-Fi router or Adguard Home [2] server that you can run for yourself, there's also this excellent project called NetGuard [3]. The developer got kicked out of the Play Store for bogus reasons, and had to continue to develop it as an externally funded effort. Support him, buy a pay what you want license, and give him a couple bucks for it if you value open source software like this.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago