Have you watched this video? it’s a general teardown but it’s official. If you’re not comfortable with the steps to access the screen someone who repairs phones would probably do it for you if you provide the parts.
Edit: skimming the video looks less helpful than I believed but people have said it helped.
Hi there and congrats on giving the idea of migrating towards digital freedom a go.
I personally havent used macs ever but am on ios still for my phone and was on windows before with outlook, excel and word.
What I did was the following:
Entertainment
I run a plex server that organizes my music library and plays my music on all devices. Some things like sonos still have some issues with flac files but otherwise, playlists and albums are no problem. I dont know how strictly you need everythin on device because apple doesnt let you do that on linux without hacking itunes to run on wine. I stream music from my server and it is always reliable as long as I have minimal connection. There is a download option but I havent tested it. Movies play with no issue.
Office
I fully transitioned to libreoffice on devices and use collabora office with my nextcloud instance when I want to cooperate over cloud services. Outlook has been replaced by thunderbird, events go through nextcloud, synced over all devices.
Photos
Also nextcloud. I sync all my photos between computers and my iphone. Nextcloud is work to set up but it is imho the most integrated solution which gives you a pretty comfortable experience. You can host it yourself or pay someone to host it for you which of course would mean a lot of trust that is needed.
Bonus: security
For the sake of my sanity, my private stuff stays on my home network and the only way in is a vpn which I have automated on my laptop and a linux phone that I‘m working on. Ios afaik needs manual activation but once its synced, you‘re good. That takes the biggest threat away from personal cloud hosting imo. Just secure your home network and there should be no issues.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
P.S.: I would suggest you first build the infrastructure. An old quad core with 8 gb ram, gigabit wired network and two good nas disks in raid 1 with an encrypted off site backup gives you double redundancy.
I’ve got plex and multiple home servers/NAS’ already. All my non laptop machines run RAID on all their disks (even SSD’s). They all have not just one but multiple offsite backups.
Plex is close to being the solution to the music as it’s one of the few options with smart playlists, but it doesn’t yet allow syncing the entire music library to mobile in any usable way.
Nextcloud looks very promising. The Exchange integration options are not great, but the software itself looks really nice. Thanks for the headsup on that.
@dch82 mastodon can't go mainstream because its emphasis on decentralization is too prominent in its communication, which complicates its adoption
However, modern social networks can still stand out, provided that federation is natural and not explicitly mentioned—similar to how Threads operates currently
Sentient dot sucks. Used to have them outside the library at uni. Careless freshmen would sit on the steps to enjoy the day only to come home looking like they’d had a roll in ants.
uBlue is good, but only if you follow the official templates. I was following some other thing which did things very differently and my custom iso ended up broken i.e Anaconda was crashing and installation was impossible.
Edit: the thing is called Bluebuild. I’d recommend to steer clear of Bluebuild and just using the official template on Github. I’m still yet to do that myself but it seems like it might actually work, unlike Bluebuild.
Obviously, lightweight is open to some interpretation but Silverblue can be made very lightweight by simply uninstalling the default flatpaks. You’ll be left with a very basic GNOME shell and greeter, without any of the common GNOME extras. From there you could easily install your own window manager, greeter, and whatever apps you need.
I’m using NixOS, it’s really freaking awesome and super repeatable but it’s also like smashing myself in the face with a brick every time I want to do something slightly unusual.
Also, not Debian, but github.com/cleanroom-team/cleanroom is very a DIY unusable system. I didn’t build (most) off it, but I use it on my daily driver and a couple of other machines.
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