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How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: The Ultimate Self-Hosting Series PI
- The article discusses how the author shifted essential services from the cloud to their Raspberry Pi for increased privacy and control over their data.
- The author uses a Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe SSD and a cooling system for performance and stability.
- Components like the cooler and NVMe HAT are selected for compatibility and effective mounting.
- Setting up encryption on the SSD ensures data protection even if physically removed from the system.
- Process involves basic installations, formatting with LUKS, passphrase setup, and filesystem selection like ext4.
- Configuring a USB key as a secure decryption key for automatic unlocking and mounting during startup is detailed.
- Steps include preparing the USB stick, creating an fstab entry, and generating a strong decryption key.
- Adding the key file to LUKS for automatic decryption and verifying successful configuration are highlighted.
- Ensuring automatic decryption at boot by adding an entry to /etc/crypttab and verifying the setup.
- The article concludes with reboot verification, system ownership setup, and successful integration of encryption with USB key for decryption automation.
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