More and more, I think the best replacement for a cloud drive is just Syncthing.
I went through the list and wrote what I use to replace it.
Microsoft Office 365
– Mail -> Tuta
– Calendar -> I don’t use a calendar, but Tuta would be my option
– OneDrive -> I still use OneDrive, but I’m also using Filen.io and Syncthing
– Documents* -> ONLYOFFICE (Documents)
Bitwarden -> KeePassXC and Keepass2Android
GitHub -> I still use GitHub…
Google search -> SearXNG with several search engines
*Documents weren’t listed or mentioned since they’re not cloud services, but I think it’s worth talking about. I’m just using ONLYOFFICE and syncing everything with Filen.io and Syncthing.
I didn’t realize until this thread because the only instance I had looked at was https://cryptpad.disroot.org/ , which doesn’t seem to have updated to the OnlyOffice version of CryptPad.
Convenience, I suppose. It’s not like Syncthing is hard to setup, but it is harder than the centralized stuff, namely because there’s talk of relay and discovery servers… That doesn’t really “matter” for a regular user, but normies see funny words and give up.
More and more, I think the best replacement for a cloud drive is just Syncthing.
I went through the list and wrote what I use to replace it.
– Mail -> Tuta
– Calendar -> I don’t use a calendar, but Tuta would be my option
– OneDrive -> I still use OneDrive, but I’m also using Filen.io and Syncthing
– Documents* -> ONLYOFFICE (Documents)
*Documents weren’t listed or mentioned since they’re not cloud services, but I think it’s worth talking about. I’m just using ONLYOFFICE and syncing everything with Filen.io and Syncthing.
Re: OnlyOffice - It’s a Russian product with a Russian version named after the first nuclear ICBM: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39638530
Instead, I’d recommend LibreOffice
or CryptPad.Yeah, I’ve heard of that… Isn’t CryptPad just an online wrapper of ONLYOFFICE?
But yeah, thing is LibreOffice is… Worse. I do have it installed though, and I use it occasionally. I’ll try and use it more.
Haven’t heard that, nor looked into it, to be honest.
Well, when I open a new document on CryptPad, it opens a web-version of ONLYOFFICE so…
That’s disappointing.
I didn’t realize until this thread because the only instance I had looked at was https://cryptpad.disroot.org/ , which doesn’t seem to have updated to the OnlyOffice version of CryptPad.
Syncthing is great, and if you need ‘central’ storage that’s always on just throw it on a server too.
YUP!!!
Syncthing is so good, I don’t know why anyone would pay for cloud storage.
Convenience, I suppose. It’s not like Syncthing is hard to setup, but it is harder than the centralized stuff, namely because there’s talk of relay and discovery servers… That doesn’t really “matter” for a regular user, but normies see funny words and give up.