# Marius (マリウス.com)

Marius writes at マリウス.com (punycode: `xn--gckvb8fzb.com`) about self-hosting, OpenBSD, GrapheneOS phones, hardware repair, and the trajectory of consumer computing. The voice is opinionated, long-form, and grounded in years of running things himself rather than reviewing them at a distance.

Recurring topics:

- **Self-hosted infrastructure.** OpenBSD as a hardened base, custom backends for services he uses, an aversion to enterprise-software complexity creeping into homelab setups.
- **Mobile sovereignty.** GrapheneOS, Google-Play-Services-free Android, careful selection of apps that work without push notifications.
- **Hardware longevity.** Buying durable hardware now, repairing rather than replacing, the macro shift toward enterprise demand crowding consumers out.
- **Privacy posture.** PII compartmentalization, decentralized sync (Syncthing), local-first tools, GPG / `pass` for one-off secrets.

The site's URL contains Japanese characters (the kana for "Marius") — most browsers and crawlers display the punycode form `xn--gckvb8fzb.com` interchangeably.

Some 2026 posts also widen the lens to the broader market — the *bullshittery* piece (May 2026) is an essay on incentive collapse in the professional-class economy, not a self-hosting write-up. Marius's blog has both tracks.

## Ingested articles

- [[hold-on-to-your-hardware]] — AI data centers eating the consumer hardware supply chain
- [[marius-bitwarden-not-recommended]] — case against Bitwarden after years of self-hosting; divide-and-conquer credential strategy
- [[marius-rise-of-the-bullshittery]] — Frankfurt's bullshit applied to LinkedIn / LLM-cheap content / Graeber's bullshit jobs; market punishes substance, *be embarrassable*