daytonah
@daytonah@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Submitted.
I am in finance/accounting/consulting and I run one self hosted small server at home to manage my home machines remotely and use it with combo of proton to do most things.
While I am in the process of de-googleing I haven’t self hosted photo or email yet as proton has been working okay for the time being. One step at a time I guess for me… I am not in IT so it requires time for me to read up on things and set them up (rtfm indeed)…(yes we all know what proton CEO said… )…let’s see how it pans out.and this has been quite a journey for me. I am still having issues with family and friends not wanting to use jitsi (that I am using for calls or contact me on signal). I have basically thrown WhatsApp and anything I don’t care about within beeper under a work profile (android) I.e. in a sandbox / appimage (laptop).
Personally if next cloud allowed self hosting with self email hosting (whatever the technical terminology is) that would have been (chef’s kiss) muah…I would have jumped on it first hand…
Sorry I am not in IT so my jargon usage might be sub par.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 3 weeks ago:
Went through the same thing. Paused between Murena (at that time they weren’t providing my personal domain / email address solution) and nextcloud, and proton. I went with proton. I could in theory do nexrcloud +proton. You do you.
And for notes, I went markdown route and obsidian.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 3 months ago:
In nokia n-gage (the og and not the 2nd smaller version) there was a rally game, really good one… Then I like rally 3.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 3 months ago:
Let’s just make legal the evil we do…
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 months ago:
I went researched a few years ago and concluded that there is no option for writers to be guaranteed “no piracy” and that’s why they prefer having paperbooks. (That is also after brainstorming with a few people to publish my own book if it were…) and those days i was trying to find an important book in electronic format and could not find it anywhere, the paper 10th edition version (which i eventually bought) is like 1000 pages and the e version i found was 200 ish pages summary. So my sad conclusion was that i just need a big’ol scanner at home, just so that i can scan everything that i buy in paper just because i could then keep it personally on my e-reader (and having destroyedbinding of each book i buy lmao)… is that too much to ask… my wife says no… lol
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 months ago:
Does that provide epub when baught? Or does it lock you in with their DRM app?