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