I’ll go first with an example below.

What are y’all opinions as to what to self-host (on a computer, instance, or local computer) vs what is better to pay for through subscription or purchase?

The goal is to increase

  • privacy from databrokers, ad brokers, corporate overlords, and from family and friends.
  • security from threats below targeted nation state attacks, below zero-day vulns.

Example:

Self-host your calendar, contacts, and tasks Subscribe to email via protonmail to avoid all the issues with self-hosting mail servers

  • paradox2011English
    5·
    1 year ago

    Self-host

    1. Notes: Joplin server is great, the sync is way more efficient (and private) than using a 3rd party storage service like OneDrive or Dropbox.
    2. Photo Library: Immich photo management server. No clandestine scanning of your images or using them for AI training.

    Subscribe

    1. Offsite backup location: Backblaze has super cheap prices on data storage. You can encrypt the buckets with a toggle on BB, but TrueNAS has a sweet automatic backup option that encrypts data before sending to your backblaze bucket.
    • GreatBlue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      For backup you can look into rclone. It’s what TrueNAS is using. You can set rclone up to only upload your data encrypted to a lot of storage providers like BackBlaze, Google, Dropbox, S3 etc. So you don’t have to trust the provider with the privacy confidentiality of your data.