Mastodawn

Boost for reach please!

Does anyone know of a turnkey 'de-bigtech' solution, service or facilitator? My attempts have stalled and fallen into the 'too hard' basket. I am willing to pay. Not sure how much.. what's your price? Preferably NZ based but most locations except USA and hell considered.

My main email is somewhere I'm happy with but I need to point a number of my subscriptions to it instead of Google.
Photos are all in Google
Files mainly Dropbox
Phone Android
OS Linux on a laptop, win on desktop
Software almost all FOSS/Linux except a couple of things which only run nicely on windows.

Nexcloud plus graphene(?) phone plus Linux seems like it could work but I am 100% sure I'm not the one to do it.

#EscapeBigTech
#TechHelp
#DeGoogle

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק

@Niall I support your goal and I hope you succeed. Hypothesis: the reason no alternatives are exactly “turnkey” is that Google has invested so heavily in the user interfaces and the integration of their many products, that it's hard to compete with the convenience they offer.

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Strypey Feb 9

@aarbrk
> Hypothesis: the reason no alternatives are exactly “turnkey” is that Google has invested so heavily in the user interfaces

Other possible reasons;

a) BorgSoft and Goggle strong-arming hardware vendors into making devices hard to put a different OS on

b) You can't just download and install server software yet. Even with tools like Docker, deployment is still an expert task. Plus you need a server, a dedicated computer with good net connection and a fixed IP (or Dynamic DNS).

@Niall