Does anyone know a web calendar client like google calendar? I really love the UX of Google Calendar & Gmail...
For me, Nextcloud's web calendar works well. Though I use native apps for most of my calendar usage.
Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
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Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#12A few recommendations: * Google Authenticator => Aegis Authenticator https://getaegis.app/ * Google Maps => Windy Maps / Maps.me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... https://maps.me/
For Google Authenticator on iPhone I would recommend Authenticator by Mark Rubin:
Fast
Light
Free
Allows you to backup all tokens in an encrypted backup (not iCloud)
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#13Replacing Google Photos with hard drives? What. And replacing Google Drive with a client-based sync tool...? Maybe too high expectations but I was hoping for some level of similar functionality. Would be interesting to get advice on how an actual user of the Google ecosystem can do this kind of move. There are a lot of applications to research, e.g. Photoprism for replacing Google Photos. A bit overwhelming to review…
I have about 245 GB of photos and videos. I switched to 2 hard drives + pCloud (under $50 a year for 500GB).
It helped that I'd always had the hard drives while still on Google Photos.
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#14A few recommendations: * Google Authenticator => Aegis Authenticator https://getaegis.app/ * Google Maps => Windy Maps / Maps.me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... https://maps.me/
Serious question
Why should I replace Google Authenticator? Since many concerns that are valid, such as (1) you don't own the data, (2) you might be banned any day and (3) your data might be used for ads, doesn't exist in this case?
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#15Replacing Google Photos with hard drives? What. And replacing Google Drive with a client-based sync tool...? Maybe too high expectations but I was hoping for some level of similar functionality. Would be interesting to get advice on how an actual user of the Google ecosystem can do this kind of move. There are a lot of applications to research, e.g. Photoprism for replacing Google Photos. A bit overwhelming to review…
My solution ended up being a mix of Backblaze B2 buckets, Nextcloud (linked to B2 using S3 Nextcloud features) and FileBrowser Pro on IOS (which is much faster than Nextcloud for photo upload, links directly to Backblaze). Costs me less than 10 cents a month at this point.
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#16A few recommendations: * Google Authenticator => Aegis Authenticator https://getaegis.app/ * Google Maps => Windy Maps / Maps.me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... https://maps.me/
Serious question Why should I replace Google Authenticator? Since many concerns that are valid, such as (1) you don't own the data, (2) you might be banned any day and (3) your data might be used for ads, doesn't exist in this case?
It's down to trust. Google has a financial incentive to stalk people, has demonstrated that they are willing to use dark patterns to make people act against their own interest when it comes to privacy and their current data processing consent flow (supposedly for GDPR compliance) doesn't actually comply with it.
Let's say you were hiring for a security guard for a bank. You have 2 candidates.
One is a former bank robber, isn't particularly wealthy (so has an financial incentive to rob again) but totally claims he is trustworthy and will no longer rob banks.
The other has no bank-robbing history and happens to have other sources of income meaning they don't have a financial incentive to rob the bank.
Morals or laws around hiring former offenders aside, which one do you pick?
Sure, you can keep a close watch on the ex bank-robber to prevent future incidents just like you can decompile and reverse-engineer Google Authenticator's every update (and do so preemptively before installing said updates), or you can just go with an option that has no demonstrated history of being malicious and has little incentive to do so.
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#17A few recommendations: * Google Authenticator => Aegis Authenticator https://getaegis.app/ * Google Maps => Windy Maps / Maps.me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... https://maps.me/
Serious question Why should I replace Google Authenticator? Since many concerns that are valid, such as (1) you don't own the data, (2) you might be banned any day and (3) your data might be used for ads, doesn't exist in this case?
* Search
* Open source
* Encryption
* Biometric/password authentication
* Import/Export
* Backup/Sync
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#18Replacing Google Photos with hard drives? What. And replacing Google Drive with a client-based sync tool...? Maybe too high expectations but I was hoping for some level of similar functionality. Would be interesting to get advice on how an actual user of the Google ecosystem can do this kind of move. There are a lot of applications to research, e.g. Photoprism for replacing Google Photos. A bit overwhelming to review…
My solution ended up being a mix of Backblaze B2 buckets, Nextcloud (linked to B2 using S3 Nextcloud features) and FileBrowser Pro on IOS (which is much faster than Nextcloud for photo upload, links directly to Backblaze). Costs me less than 10 cents a month at this point.
Interesting;
I just purchased FileBrowser Pro for my iPad, but after adding my Backblaze B2 bucket i just get an authorization error. Recreated the keys, still not working…
Re: Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
My solution ended up being a mix of Backblaze B2 buckets, Nextcloud (linked to B2 using S3 Nextcloud features) and FileBrowser Pro on IOS (which is much faster than Nextcloud for photo upload, links directly to Backblaze). Costs me less than 10 cents a month at this point.
Interesting; I just purchased FileBrowser Pro for my iPad, but after adding my Backblaze B2 bucket i just get an authorization error. Recreated the keys, still not working…
…turns out there was a bug which caused it to only work when the Application Key has access to “all vaults”.
The developer replied and provided a workaround the same day… so that’s great support!