Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.

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Explores the motivations for self-hosting personal services, focusing on privacy and digital sovereignty. Discusses how calendar, contact, and location data reveal sensitive information about users, and argues against relying on big tech companies. Provides practical recommendations for self-hosting calendar/contact servers (Baïkal), email (Stalwart, Mailcow), smart home automation (Home Assistant), RSS aggregators (FreshRSS), and location tracking (dawarich). Shares a personal journey from single server to a 3-node Kubernetes cluster setup.

Why Self-host?

Simple Answer:
Server failure of AWS yesterday. “Cloud stuff is super failsafe and redundant” yeah…my ass
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I own just one smart home device myself, but if I don’t access it for an extended period, it automatically logs me out and even resets the entire room settings. My dream is to decode this Bluetooth signal and manage it with a Raspberry Pi, but that plan is still far in the future.