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lpslucasps

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Professor de História formado pela UFMG, aficionado por games, leitor voraz de mangás, usuário de Arch btw™ e projeto de aspirante a corredor amador.

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How much of your life have you degoogled? (beehaw.org)

We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not....

lpslucasps ,

I used to rely almost exclusively on Google for almost anything online. Fortunately, I’m much less dependent on Google and their services now. I’m even self-hosting some of my own services nowadays!

  • Search engine: Ecosia and DuckDuckGo
  • E-mail: Protonmail
  • File storage: Nextcloud (selfhosted)
  • Online Office Suite: Nextcloud Office (selfhosted)
  • Maps: OpenStreetMaps
  • 2FA App: Aegis
  • Translator: DeepL
  • Notes and Tasks: Obsidian.md
  • Calendar: An actual wall calendar :)

Every single one of these apps/services used to be provided by google, so I think it’s safe to say I’ve come a long way!

Of course, things could be better. I still use Google Contacts for synchronizing my, hum, contacts. I also use YouTube quite a bit, but as a paying customer my experience with it is just fine. I also use gboard on my phone — for bilingual speakers there’s just no good alternative, imho. And, finally, I download/update most of my phone apps through Google Play.

lpslucasps ,

How do you host nextcloud? At home or on a vps?

On a VPS. Later down the road I intend to build my own home server, but that will take some time and money. A VPS is not ideal, but that’s leagues above trusting Google and the likes, and so far it has been working well enough for me.

Did you have any self hosting experience before doing that?

None at all.

Do you know Logseq? It’s an OpenSource/FOSS alternative to obsidian

I did try it, and it’s a cool project, but not as good as Obsidian, imho.

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