For context, I’m in the States.

I already have a Tuta mail account so I figure for mail/calendar/soon-drive I’ll stick to them but what about other services?

Ideally I can try with a free tier before committing. iOS and Android and Linux are the platforms used in my household.

Still looking for:

  • password manager
  • vpn
  • authenticator
  • less important: docs/sheets

I was all in on proton services because it was easy for my family to switch from google and still have all these services in one place but now I’m more open to spreading these services out to more than one provider in case any of them shit the bed so to speak.

Thanks!

edit:

  • probably staying with proton’s authenticator
  • I’m sure most here won’t agree but my entire household uses firefox on desktop/mobile and my wife and I just decided to use firefox’s built in pw manager + sync for pw management. Please understand that convenience is top of mind for us tbh, out lives are too busy to be overly concerned with what to choose here.
  • waiting for tuta drive to start using that but backed up out drives to a couple external drives and will just use that until tuta drive is released.
  • vpn is still tbd
  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I switched to vaultwarden this morning. Took a few hours to get nginx to cooperate, but its been smooth sailing so far! I even got ssh-keys working, which I wasn’t able to to do with proton.

    As for email… I plan to expeeiment with bulwark once I’m done work, since its the only email server in the truenas app repo. If that doesn’t work, then I guess I’ll keep looking.

    (Edit) Turns out that without both a public IP and port 25 there’s no way to selfhost email. Sure, I could rent a VPS but like hell am I doing that. The whole point of self hosting is to minimize subscriptions.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      4 hours ago

      There’s many points to self hosting - reducing subscriptions is just one of them

      Personally I pay donations to every service I use, so it’s basically an optional subscription but with infinitely more data sovereignty, control, privacy, and customisation

      I don’t have a VPS, I just used an old desktop I had lying around from years ago