Yeah. I’ve heard good things about Ente. For me, I was at a storage tier where i was over 100gb of docs & photos, and between 1 & 2TB when you include video. Most hosted services get kinda pricey at those storage tiers.

I didn’t really set out to self host, but since in needed to solve for docs, photos, and videos, I just went with self hosting. I’m happy with it, just acknowledging that it’s not for everyone

His do you eat a whale? One bite at a time.

I was the same as you. Got Gmail way back when. I’ve left pretty much all google services at this point except YouTube.

For me, mail and cal were the easiest things to switch switched to mailbox.org. I tried Proton first, and i like using Proton quite a bit, but opted for Mailbox because my my wife (who wants to keep Gmail for personal) can get IMAP for mailbox and her remaining google in a single app. Proton is more polished, but Mailbox suited our need better. Tuta is good too.

Switching away from Google docs and Photos was harder. I used google docs extensively, and it was harder to find a good replacement. Same for photos which used since it was Picasa. I opted for self hosted for those (Paperless-ngx, nextcloud, and immich). I like paperless a lot. Its tons better than google drive for static docs. Immich is pretty promising, and has some great tools. But you do sacrifice a bit of polish and simplicity. Still worth it for me.

Price of self hosting is probably a wash compared to paid storage as long as you ignore the cost of your labor to learn and set it all up.

It’s just Dodger’s fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

And Microsoft. Ain’t nobody buying SharePoint because it’s good.

Probably not. Disney has previously announced that they’re gonna stop reporting subscriber numbers in 10Ks and annual reports.

It’s because nobody but Disney has that data, and they stopped sharing sub numbers because it fucks with stock price too much.

Talkin out their ass seems to be Newsweek’s brand identity these days.

If they follow the script, they’ll blame Antifa, Obama, and trans people.

You’re right… it does go a lot deeper. If you’re in the USA, your local community college might have classes. Consider starting with some formal instruction. The problem with YouTube is that you (the one lacking knowledge) has to decide whether the YouTuber knows what they’re doing. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube, but there’s plenty of wrong and unsafe stuff too.

Also, avoid super cheap tools for the tools that interface with screws, nuts, and bolts, like wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, hex and torx drivers. Cheap tools make it wasier to damage screw heads and bolts.

Training courses and apprenticeships; there are a lot of specialized tools, techniques, and diagnostic procedures that aren’t obvious. Self guided usually results in doing a lot of things the wrong way.

I don’t use the phone part of my smartphone much, so thie idea of a dumbphone has no real appeal for me.

They should just mandate that the child pornographers set the evil bit. It would save the EU leaders the trouble of learning how cryptography works.

YouTube is drowning in it, and Google/YT leadership either doesn’t care or doesn’t seem to realize it. I started using Grayjay recently, subscribed to just creators I like. And for the first time in a long while, my feed isn’t two-thirds AI slop. It’s made YouTube tolerable again.

And yet… I would’t bat an eye if I saw a new executive order tomorrow requiring that.