Replacing Google Drive is the hardest for me. I'm not a fan of the nextcloud bloat, Seafile is hard to setup. Didn't expect this to be the largest struggle of the whole process.
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Iโve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.
Nice suggestion!! I was fully on board until I realized it's not a self-hosted application :D I have some resources available on a server so I want to look in that direction for a possible solution.
Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?
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Once proton integrates an office suite I'll be all set. (It's in the road map. When? Who knows?)
I used nextcloud for a while but ended up with a combo of syncthing and filebrowser to similar effect
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What's the best email to use? Anyone have suggestions? usability? I haven't changed because I just end up with decision overload / paralysis.
@LavaPlanet @LEONARDE11 I switched a few times. With Tutanota. It's good and does what I need. I like it so much have gone from the free plan to the paid plan. My advice is if you're not sure, just switch.
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recommending reddit
am I being too grumpy?
It doesn't recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.
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There's errors on the new one too but the one you're looking at is slightly old
https://bsky.app/profile/purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social/post/3ll2ak7nr722x
Wait....what....????!!! There's paid browser out there ???
I don't think it's a paid browser (there are a few of those though) it's a paid search engine.
Orion Browser is paid.
I'm confused, I use Orion all the time on both iPhone and Mac and have never paid.
Ahh you're right, I take it back, Orion is free, Orion+ is paid if you want to support the mission.
Is startpage not recommended? Did I miss something?
As I understand, an adtech company bought a majority stake in StartPage in 2019, and though they apparently can't use that stake to force privacy-threatening changes, I personally find that acquisition disconcerting. Probably not enough to say it's unsafe to use, but enough that I prefer some of the other options out there.
proton ceo supports trump
If we're judging all products by the personalities of people who run them we'd have nothing left lol
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Why no Libby. At least for the US.
Signal is centralised and may just be the next WhatsApp. Does anyone have experience with matrix? Could it be a decent alternative to WhatsApp or signal?
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Lost me at signal