I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The problem is you’d need someone to do maintenance and updates too, because stuff can/does break and if you didn’t set it up, you won’t know how to fix it.

    You can sign up with a Nextcloud hosting provider for access to files, notes, photo management, calendar, contacts, etc…

    For email I recommend a solid provider like mailbox.org or skiff.com

    For video streaming with Plex and the supporting *arrs you can install all of those on windows AFAIK, so you can probably do those yourself with minimal effort on learning new things.