I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

  • @hperrinEnglish
    25•11 months ago

    Just letting you know, running your own email server is very difficult. Setting it up is easy enough, but getting port 25 unblocked by your ISP and getting your IP off all the blocklists is a pain. You also need a static IP. Then some of the big players will still deliver your mail to the spam folder because you don’t send enough email to create a “reputation”.

    I just recently launched an email service called https://port87.com, so I had to learn all of this the hard way. It’s not impossible, but it’s very difficult.

    • @Unlearned9545OPEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      Thanks for the advice.

      I’m ok with paying for a privacy respecting, offline syncing service.

      • The Stoned HackerEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        The easiest email solution imo is Mail in a box. it’s fairly easy to setup by their guide