What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

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What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler? - Feddit

I am trying to re-adjust how much effort I want to put into privacy concerns. Too much stuff I’m using isn’t working properly or using a lot of my mental resources that I need elsewhere. For (a bad) example: I recently performed a half-switch from my self-hosted Nextcloud instance to ProtonDrive, in the hope that it would spare me the stress to maintain my private Nextcloud. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, as basic functionality like cross-device-sync is not possible (there isn’t even a client app for Linux, as of yet). This brings me to the question: have you found any services/apps/stuff that significantly eases your life while still being privacy friendly? I know, this is a broad question, but I think this is for the best as this thread then maybe even has use for other users.

rethinkdns.com the android app is also an excellent firewall with logging. I use a custom config on my router. I can’t say enough good things about this.

simplex.chat Android/ iOS/ macOS/ Linux/ Windows getting people to switch is a pita though.

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I look forward to SimpleX development - it’s already come a long way.

It’s unfortunately heavy on ram for me.