tl;dr: A UK lawyer running decoded.legal shares his 2026 update on running the firm entirely on Free software, using Debian/GNOME on a ThinkPad, with tools like Thunderbird, LibreOffice, vim, reveal.js, and espanso client-side. Server-side, he self-hosts nearly everything, having swapped Nextcloud for Syncthing+radicale, dropped Jitsi for Signal, moved his blog from Hugo to BSSG, and uses Forgejo, Wazuh, vaultwarden, and Kimai. He uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel, avoids AI tools entirely, and reports zero friction interoperating with clients on Microsoft/Apple stacks.