For those of us who do need Drive for cloud storage, any suggestions? I'm looking for around 2tb. Please don't say self hosted NAS.
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Try filen. I put some work stuff there. Though I'm now using it as offsite backup because my self host seafile is what i prefer to use for the day to day
Signed up yesterday and used it for work today. Seems to be a good alternative, just waiting for client confirmation.
Out of curiosity, why not self hosted NAS?
I've been pretty happy with mine.
I already manage a lot of self hosted stuff, and this cloud storage is specifically for my crucial off-site backups.
Understandable. Sadly, you can't exactly set up an off-site backup in your living room, no matter how much you want to.
When someone doesn't want self hosted NAS, it feels like they often just dn't want to bother with it. While I haven't used them myself, I've heard good things about ready made NAS boxes.
For self built, it has been too hassle free in my experience. I want to tinker more with the NAS part, but it is just too reliable & maintenance free!
While I know that they're different, the more common reasons for not wanting a NAS just remind me a bit of some "reasons" to not care about digital privacy or security.
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mailbox.org vs fastmail? i have a custom domain - but am “scared” to migrate my serious accts to it. (github bank etc). thoughts?
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I'm also looking into what to switch to from proton rip. atm I'm thinking tuta for email. i was wondering about maybe trying Njalla VPN? drive/docs/sheets are the main ones i'm struggling with ig
For VPN I do like AirVPN a lot.
I do currently use Bitwarden for my 2FA as well as my passwords, though I should look into Ente Auth.
Apparently Gmail and proton mail block PeerTube account registration emails. I have been trying for weeks to get a PeerTube account… anyone know an email service that allows PeerTube registration emails?
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Finding a good 2fa is such PITA. Is this have free limits too?
Self hosted bit warden is rad I imported the DBs of all my Google account password managers and never looked back. Works great on my mobile device for passkeys/biometric also
This perfectly sums up my situation. I'm currently trialing a free Tuta mail account and a Mailfence account (freeee)
Waiting for expert reviews of the alternative VPN options.
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