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Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.
Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.
Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.
SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.
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So where now, any suggestions?
I use proton for email and password management.
I'm happy to pay for a product so long as it isn't lining the pockets of abhorrent people.
Getting real tired of seemingly having to sit down and research who I'm give my money to, can't we just stop being hateful bastards for a while?
Go piecemeal. Proton is a good deal if you actually use all their services, otherwise it's overpriced.
For mail, mailbox.org, posteo.de, and fastmail.net seem to have good reputations. They'll all allow you to bring your own domain (edit: not Posteo, my mistake), which I highly recommend so that it'll be easy to switch providers again when whichever one you choose turns to shit (yes, I say when, not if, because I am just that jaded at this point).
For passwords, there are a lot of choices, but the most future-proof is probably to keep a local Keepass DB and sync it across devices any damn way you want. Bitwarden used to be good but I don't know anymore. They've backed away from open source a bit recently, and I can't even tell at a glance what their free plan offers anymore. Maybe look at https://vaultwarden.com/ instead.
For VPN and storage...I dunno. There are a lot, and most of them seem kind of shady tbh. I'd be interested in hearing others' advice on this since I'm not sure what's good these days.
Edit: I'd REALLY like to hear recommendations for Docs and especially Sheets. Everything else I've used is a UX nightmare, particularly on mobile.
Just a small note, afaik posteo doesn't support custom domains
Oh, looks like you're right. Thanks for the correction.
Personally, I'm on PIA for VPN and Mega for storage. Both not without their controversies, of course, but they work well, have native Linux GUIs, and seem solid enough for my purposes.
Fastmail is great for email
I also use them for contacts and calendar. Fastmail even syncs with my work schedule online.
Do it yourself is really the only way. Password management yourself is easy, email self hosting...not as much. But it is do-able.
The email middle ground is using your own domain and finding a decent host that runs an Imap email server. But who that is these days is a guess.
Some of the long time mostly trusted hosts have begun to add AI and raise prices.
Getting your own domain is the important part. If you're ever unhappy with your provider you just swap your DNS records and boom, move it to the new provider in seconds.
I can't find a domain name I like that isn't annoying to try to tell people 😭 My first world problems are insurmountable.
Firstname@lastname.com?
Common enough that it's taken already. Not counting crazy TLDs. It's even taken in reverse which doesn't spell anything.
How would you suggest this password management is done and synced across devices?
I know of KeePass, though haven't looked into it too closely.
KeePassx saves its database as a file. Keeping that file in sync can be done by only using it in one place and reference only that one from your devices, or use something like syncthing to sync the file.
Keepass and syncthing if you want have full control. Keepass and something like dropbox if you don't mind some cloud
This is what I do. It works well.
I never understood why someone would use a 3rd party for "password management"
Just add the name of the site/service to your usual password.
If your usual password is "Password123", then your Google password is "Password123google", your Lemmy password is "Password123lemmy" and your ebay password is "Password123ebay", etc etc etc. (Obviously, you'd want to use a better base password than that. This is just an example.)
That way, it's super easy to remember because you only need to remember one password, but you still have a unique password for every different service, so you won't get burned when one inevitably leaks it.
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This is horrible advice, one of the reason you should have different passwords is that if one site has bad security and your password gets leaked your other accounts are safe. If this password gets leaked your other passwords are easily guessable. A LLM will hack your other accounts without a problem...