Well, there are always ready-to-go solutions. A 1TB external drive isn’t all that expensive nowadays, and they’re enough for daily use!
Plus, honestly… there are soo many tutorials online about how to set up everything, amd most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt. The anxiety is far worse than the procedure itself.
Maybe what’s needed is propagating these tutorials more, make them visible and highlight their accessibility in terms of procedural difficulty!
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
The irony is that self hosting in many ways has become way easier, faster and cheaper then using proprietary alternatives.
The catch is what you are already used to do.
A good example to illustrate this is is how easy it is to install software tools on linux using a package manager.
You get used to this so quickly that when i had to install something on windows i really struggled:
i have to find the right site to download from, run that installer, navigate menus, make sure it doesn’t come with bonus malware. And then when i finally run it turns out its a free demo and half the features are locked.
Comparing different plans for o365 and setting up a family with different accounts, again its a pain.
Spinning up a one click install nextcloud instance and getting that configured was peanuts in comparison.
waddle_dee@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Agreed! I’m working on converting my wife and the rest of my family to Linux. I got a nextcloud server set up, alongside Grocy, Jellyfin, and a few others. So far, it’s made our lives better! It works better than our Google calendar. Everyone has their own accounts and things are rarely breaking. It’s so nice.