I am trying to re-adjust how much effort I want to put into privacy concerns. Too much stuff I’m using isn’t working properly or using a lot of my mental resources that I need elsewhere.

For (a bad) example: I recently performed a half-switch from my self-hosted Nextcloud instance to ProtonDrive, in the hope that it would spare me the stress to maintain my private Nextcloud. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, as basic functionality like cross-device-sync is not possible (there isn’t even a client app for Linux, as of yet).

This brings me to the question: have you found any services/apps/stuff that significantly eases your life while still being privacy friendly? I know, this is a broad question, but I think this is for the best as this thread then maybe even has use for other users.

  • LemmyHead@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 months ago

    Ntfy - no more google reading notifications
    Jellyfin - media served without questionable Plex account
    Arch - on so many levels allows me a private computing experience
    Posteo - simple but efficient email service
    Resilio sync - cloudless syncing

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      0·
      8 months ago

      NTFY looks intriguing.

      If I’m reading the description properly, it uses an HTTP server as the middleman for the notifications?

      Pretty neat nifty idea. (Yea, had to come back and edit because I missed a great opportunity).

      • LemmyHead@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        It’s based on unifiedpush standard https://unifiedpush.org/. So a central notification middleman like google firebase for all your apps (that support it). There’s messengers like mercurygram, fluffychat, Molly that support it and you can also send notifications yourself via a simple curl command.

  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve found Syncthing a better way to handle file sync than NextCloud. Much more set and forget and not a single point of failure. It also syncs a notes directory in flat .md format, so anything can edit them, in a simple directory hierarchy.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    0·
    8 months ago

    NC isnt perfect imo but its like having an open source car or house. Its not emergency ready like no downtime, no bugs, no issues but it will do 95% uptime if configured correctly and its is insanely versatile. I cant imagine any other app being this versatile. You can check my setup if you want.

  • Dupree878@lemmy.world
    01·
    7 months ago

    Apple

    It seems to get derided a lot here, but none of your data is harvested and tied to you or sold. It’s aggregated and anonymised if it’s sent off device, and I stopped using Proton drive when you could finally encrypt iCloud storage. I even use their email as default now since it’s not reading my messages and selling my info like outlook started doing.