Tala Family Handbook

Welcome

A foreword from Jad

The goal behind the writing of this handbook is to present you with the information you need to take advantage of the digital collective infrastructure we are maintaining and serving on the tala.family domain.

This infrastructure is built from second-hand parts scraped online in Switzerland and assembled, except for some mechanical hard drives which I bought new.

We curate some of the best emerging self-hosted applications.

Get started in three steps

  1. Create your account — Register with your name and a passkey. No password needed.

  2. Connect to the VPN — Install Tailscale so you can reach private services and game servers.

  3. Set up your apps — Files, photos, and tasks — all in one place.

What's here

  • Getting Started — A quick orientation: what tala.family is and how it works.

  • Guides — Step-by-step instructions for accounts, VPN, apps, and devices.

  • Infrastructure — For the curious: how the server works, what services run on it, and where the data lives.