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Yo yo!
I’ve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! Here’s where I’m at …
Apple Maps -OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it. -Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.
AI (ChatGPT) -Lumo. Chat is really good. But I understand they are good because they syphon data illegally, so I’m ok “downgrading” when switching AIs. Lump seems pretty good so far. I can tell it’s not as advanced but it will do me fine for what I need. Also, i assume once I pay for lumo pro it will be more “powerful”. -Maple AI. Seems dope, also I like the pay model, pay for what you use over “x” amount of inquiries. Does anyone know how I owledgable/powerful it is? -local AI OR Ollama. These 2 are beyond my knowledge. I don’t understand how I run these on my own server? If you know anything about these please ELI5.
Google Docs -OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want. -cryptpad. Just heard of this today, need to explore more. Seems dope, but it doesn’t have an app? From what I’ve seen definitely a strong contender.
Photo App (I haven’t looked into any of these yet) -Protón Drive. -ente photos. -I’mmich.
Google Drive -protón drive.
OSM~ is great. The only tweaking you need to do, is download the relevant maps for you. If that’s too much for you, I guess you really need to ask yourself, if you want only easy, or you want private and free? Easy comes with a prize too… Personally I use OSM~ and since I took a few minutes to set it up, I have never looked back. I’ve tried Waze, Magic Earth, CoMaps and others… OSM~ is simply the best and most versatile.
AI - I don’t use it, and wouldn’t recommend it, so that I leave for other to answer.
LibreOffice is way better than OnlyOffice.
What is a Photo app? To take pictures, to edit pictures, to manage pictures?
I use Mega, NextCloud (self host), Protondrive and pCloud. To be fair - the best for me is pCloud. NextCloud is used for some minor private stuff. On Mega I have 50 GB, but I don’t pay, so they are starting to show ads - might cut them of totally soon.
Im enjoying the set up and tweaking of OSM. What I don’t like so far is the verbal directions. Sometimes the app will tell me to take a right/left when actually I should be going straight. But, to be fair, I haven’t played with it long enough to give it its fair shot.
I’ll look into libre. I was hoping for an app, but I can definitely make a browser work.
The photo app would be storage for photos. Someone else mentioned self hosting using AI. I imagine the process is similar for self hosting for something like nextxloud. Do you have a video or blog that would ELI5?
I’ve never experienced a wrong direktion. Sometimes I will ask you to hold right or left, do chose the right lane for you to travel in. Personally I like that.
I have chosen to pay for a webhotel for my domain/mail. There I have installed nextcloud, and it was painless. Then I just install the app, and that’s painless too… It just works.