If you're still stuck on #Google drive, or #Microsoft #onedrive, or even #Apple iCloud, it's time to put your files somewhere more private.
Here are a bunch of alternatives that are all better than these privacy invasive services: self hostable options, cloud options, affordable ones, cloud-less ones, with tons of storage... There's something for everyone in there!
@thelinuxEXP Me too, if we don't count IRC.
/me knows that makes him old
@Seth take a look here:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/skiff-402f/company_financials
However, you make your own decision, of course.
I see VC and I run, it's the Silicon Valley Unicorn model that always ends the same way... starts good, affordable, private etc, then gets acquired, turns evil:(
Why not spend your time with something that can't be sold, #nextcloud IMHO is future-proof because you own your data.
@thelinuxEXP great video! I love how your topics get me to try new things and do the things I’ve kept dragging along.
One note here, iCloud is now end to end encrypted if you set it up. Also for the French after the latest update.
But I also recommend Nextcloud to most techy people.
@thelinuxEXP I have to use Google Drive for university unfortunately. :P
I use syncthing whenever I can though.
I've just built my new server and am trying Nextcloud out. It's not bad but I wouldn't say it's great either... Setup was a pain if you want to do it correctly and have control over it. Who thought PHP is a good idea 🫠🫠🫠
Using podman would be even easier, but I wanted to be able to customize the install and run it natively without having proprietary lock-in from the Microsoft of the Linux world
The video is also available on #Peertube? Great! Where? Why not post that link instead of the #Youtube link?
Just in case - you can watch the YT video without YT getting to know anything about you by using #Piped, here the direct link to the video:
@Voka @matteo I post the YT link because the Peertube videos sync off of YouTube, so they’re not yet live when I publish on YouTube ;)
And also, making content is my job, and Peertube doesn’t generate any revenue for me, unless people support me in another way, so for now, I have to post the “profitable” link 😓
@matteo Donations would be sufficient to replace ad based models, but probably not sponsors, unfortunately…
For me at least, someone donating 1€ per month is worth more than 300 to 500 ad enabled views on YouTube. Sponsors, though, pay much better than ads, and they would be hard to match with donations.
If I relied solely on user funding right now, after 5 years of YouTube, I unfortunately couldn’t do this as a job (granted, I don’t push my Patreon all that much)
@thelinuxEXP Great video! I'm using Infomaniak kDrive, and it's also a good option (especially since I'm already using them for my emails, calendars, and contacts).
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