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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.
Consider using Nextcloud instead of Proton Drive.
You can host it yourself, but if you’re not up for that you can pay Hetzner to do it for you for dirt cheap
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
The issue I have with Proton is they seem really good now, but in say 10 years they could get greedy and then you have to move again.
With Nextcloud you own and control everything iit’s open source
I hear ya with the 10 years thing. But tbh, you could say that about any company that touts privacy.
I do love the self hosting thing. Another user mentioned that as well. Hetzner is a good back up. Do you have any links that help someone do it by themselves ?
True, but things have been getting iffy with Proton recently like their use of AI and lack of transparency. Plus it’s better to compartmentalize. Wouldn’t wanna put all your eggs in one basket and then have Proton turn to shit later on.