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I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by godelski »

kavouras wrote: post #10

I don't like the idea of moving from google's ecosystem to proton. While they're better, ecosystems tend to get locked down or change for the worse.I'm not planning to repeat the google cycle. I got my own domain for email, bitwarden for passwords, firefox forks for browsing, and many other stuff to get off google. Also I realised that stuff like contacts, notes, calendar don't really need to be on the cloud, but I'm…

  > I got my own domain for email
Doesn't this make migrating easier? Since you are just changing where it directs to?

Edit: s/mining/migrating

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by cromka »

scrollaway wrote: post #87
wtcactus wrote: post #74

I find it funny that right at the start the author claims he wants "privacy and data sovereignty" and then he comes into the EU. Now, Proton is based in Switzerland (thank god for some sane countries in Europe that still remain), but EU is not friend to your "privacy and data sovereignty". Countries in EU are going after you (and demanding that external platforms disclosure your anonymous identity so that they can pu…

I started watching YouTuber Evan Edinger recently and it’s been a breath of fresh air because he’s been saying things I understood to be true a long time ago, but never quite verified until now. One of those being about American exceptionalism and how Americans will only ever make judgement about other countries (including the EU) from the highly deformed perspective of their local news. And they’ll do this, knowingl…

Bravo!

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by cromka »

lone-cloud wrote: post #32
Herring wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try reading more books, eg autobiographies or fiction. Understanding other people’s perspectives is a skill like any other.

Maybe you should take your own advise and try to understand his perspective.

This is a logical fallacy like saying one should tolerate the intolerance, because otherwise it's intolerance.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by cromka »

Herring wrote: post #26
mgaunard wrote: post #6

I Spend 0. I don't understand why anyone would need most of these services.

Try reading more books, eg autobiographies or fiction. Understanding other people’s perspectives is a skill like any other.

Still looking for that microphone you dropped!

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by drstewart »

cromka wrote: post #99
drstewart wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So anyone not aligning with the U.S. is basically in bed with China/Russia? Huh, where have we heard this before? Also, the irony here is you not seeing the ongoing Russia-US alignment.

Sorry, can you define non-US for me? Does a Chinese data centre count as a US option, or are people not moving towards "non-US" options?

Let's play the game where you slowly whittle your definition of "non-US" to a set of villages in Iceland and Norway

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by throw-12-16 »

cromka wrote: post #91
throw-12-16 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can self host email in an afternoon, its not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

It's not about configuration but rather your IP reputation and the struggle to not have your mail go straight to addressee's spam folder.

Thats just a matter of buying a decent IP and setting up DMARC and DKIM.

I see this reasoning as the #1 reason not to self host, but it really isn't a big issue once you do the initial setup.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by allan_s »

kavouras wrote: post #10

I don't like the idea of moving from google's ecosystem to proton. While they're better, ecosystems tend to get locked down or change for the worse.I'm not planning to repeat the google cycle. I got my own domain for email, bitwarden for passwords, firefox forks for browsing, and many other stuff to get off google. Also I realised that stuff like contacts, notes, calendar don't really need to be on the cloud, but I'm…

I also agree on "for personal things we don't need SaaS" and I would say do we even needs self hosted in the sense of a central server.

By that I mean, could we have like for firefox , heavy clients but with client to client sync. The goal is to not need to have a always online machine while still solving the "i prefer if my emails are copied both on my laptop and my phones" . Especially as nearly all my devices are often if not always on the same LAN

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Post by throw-12-16 »

ArnoVW wrote: post #90
throw-12-16 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people view their personal emails being slurped up by a Google AI model as a pretty big negative.

If you pay for Workspace (like he says he does) your data is your own, just like for any SaaS product.

Then how is Gemini of any use?
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