Looking at AirVPN, but not ready to pull the trigger on that yet.
Still looking for a calendar. Thunderbird has one but it’s not on mobile for some reason.
The big one is mail. I was the same as you migrating from gmail so I’m learning my lesson now. Set up Thundermail today and have 3 custom domains set up. Spent hours today swapping out account emails. It’s rough, but I did it to myself. I knew going full Proton ecosystem was a bad idea, but at the time I just wanted out of Google. Take your time.
Problem is that any vpn not in switzerland is basically an explict step down. Trusting a company that is in a country that has no enforcement means your trusting the company it self entirely to stay honest. At least with proton, no matter what the idiots at the top want. They still have to comply with their local laws.
That alone keeps proton above airVPN if your using a VPN for privacy reasons. It always will, no matter what. The entire country would have to change its laws for that to change.
Now if your just using a VPN for routing purposes or something that security is not a high piro. Then air VPN is fantastic.
Yeah, I’ve been struggling with this. I’m thinking when my mail gets sorted I’ll go down to just the vpn subscription for now. Keeping one service isn’t perfect, but perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good. keeping 1 of the 8 services is way better than all 8 lol.
Flexibility and diversification is annoying to manage but tends to be the best situation over all.
Proton does things right generally speaking, it’s just ran by an absolute idiot.
So you also have to weigh are your morals and expectations here reasonable to your own acceptance level. Vs your own requirements of the service at hand.
There are plenty of reasons to need a VPN that the extra security and privacy guarantee are beyond worthless. And in those cases staying in proton doesn’t make since if your morals go against the company.
While if you absolutely need that privacy and guarantee switching is a very real risk.
Plenty of people like having privacy but for some it’s actively a life or death situation. So you have to make that call. Where do you sit on that spectrum, and are your morals important enough to take the risk if your on the extreme end?
For most people who aren’t, switching is just a formality and technical consideration.
People may not like the idea of what I’m about to say but here’s a thought from someone who also found self hosting to be overwhelming at first and now self hosts everything but email. The learning curve is flatter than you probably imagine it to be if you are doing normal things with mostly default settings. I recommend docker containers to start. Find something you want to host and just follow the directions in the man pages. You might not understand everything initially but you’ll quickly pick it up as you change the handful of variables in a docker compose file to fit your setup. It will also help you get used to how to structure your files and folders in a way that makes things flow easier. Everything in docker can be done in the terminal which also takes away a layer of complexity.
I moved to Linux a while back and only discovered docker after setting everything up. Haven’t got around to learning about it yet, Linux itself was a lot of info lol. Do you use docker containers for like every app you install? Like if I start with an old laptop and try syncthing, should that be installed in a docker container?
I use it for every server app I install. Mainly because it easier to migrate applications between machines. Docker gives you a consistent build environment so you don’t have to worry about having 12 versions of Python installed and they are all wrong and then when you find the right one it breaks something else (this was never a common problem for me but it is annoying when it happens.) So, using docker-compose (recommended over cli commands because you can see all in one place what everything does and where it goes) you just edit the compose file to fit your scenario and build it. It is pretty easy and fast. When and if you decide you want everything accessible from the Internet you can read a few guides and knock it out in an afternoon. The reverse proxies can also be run as containers. Here’s the page for the sync thing container. To use it, install docker, create the folders the container calls for, edit the compose file as necessary, go to the folder the compose file is located in and run docker compose up -d and your build will start
I spent the day getting things set up to leave.
Pass went to KeePass, which was easier than I expected.
Drive is now replaced with Filen.io
Standard Notes is now Obsidian
Looking at AirVPN, but not ready to pull the trigger on that yet.
Still looking for a calendar. Thunderbird has one but it’s not on mobile for some reason.
The big one is mail. I was the same as you migrating from gmail so I’m learning my lesson now. Set up Thundermail today and have 3 custom domains set up. Spent hours today swapping out account emails. It’s rough, but I did it to myself. I knew going full Proton ecosystem was a bad idea, but at the time I just wanted out of Google. Take your time.
Problem is that any vpn not in switzerland is basically an explict step down. Trusting a company that is in a country that has no enforcement means your trusting the company it self entirely to stay honest. At least with proton, no matter what the idiots at the top want. They still have to comply with their local laws.
That alone keeps proton above airVPN if your using a VPN for privacy reasons. It always will, no matter what. The entire country would have to change its laws for that to change.
Now if your just using a VPN for routing purposes or something that security is not a high piro. Then air VPN is fantastic.
Yeah, I’ve been struggling with this. I’m thinking when my mail gets sorted I’ll go down to just the vpn subscription for now. Keeping one service isn’t perfect, but perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good. keeping 1 of the 8 services is way better than all 8 lol.
Flexibility and diversification is annoying to manage but tends to be the best situation over all.
Proton does things right generally speaking, it’s just ran by an absolute idiot.
So you also have to weigh are your morals and expectations here reasonable to your own acceptance level. Vs your own requirements of the service at hand.
There are plenty of reasons to need a VPN that the extra security and privacy guarantee are beyond worthless. And in those cases staying in proton doesn’t make since if your morals go against the company.
While if you absolutely need that privacy and guarantee switching is a very real risk.
Plenty of people like having privacy but for some it’s actively a life or death situation. So you have to make that call. Where do you sit on that spectrum, and are your morals important enough to take the risk if your on the extreme end?
For most people who aren’t, switching is just a formality and technical consideration.
Baikal and any client that supports CalDAV, my friend.
Thanks, I’ll give it a look. Self hosting is a huge learning curve for me, I hate network stuff lol.
People may not like the idea of what I’m about to say but here’s a thought from someone who also found self hosting to be overwhelming at first and now self hosts everything but email. The learning curve is flatter than you probably imagine it to be if you are doing normal things with mostly default settings. I recommend docker containers to start. Find something you want to host and just follow the directions in the man pages. You might not understand everything initially but you’ll quickly pick it up as you change the handful of variables in a docker compose file to fit your setup. It will also help you get used to how to structure your files and folders in a way that makes things flow easier. Everything in docker can be done in the terminal which also takes away a layer of complexity.
I moved to Linux a while back and only discovered docker after setting everything up. Haven’t got around to learning about it yet, Linux itself was a lot of info lol. Do you use docker containers for like every app you install? Like if I start with an old laptop and try syncthing, should that be installed in a docker container?
I use it for every server app I install. Mainly because it easier to migrate applications between machines. Docker gives you a consistent build environment so you don’t have to worry about having 12 versions of Python installed and they are all wrong and then when you find the right one it breaks something else (this was never a common problem for me but it is annoying when it happens.) So, using docker-compose (recommended over cli commands because you can see all in one place what everything does and where it goes) you just edit the compose file to fit your scenario and build it. It is pretty easy and fast. When and if you decide you want everything accessible from the Internet you can read a few guides and knock it out in an afternoon. The reverse proxies can also be run as containers. Here’s the page for the sync thing container. To use it, install docker, create the folders the container calls for, edit the compose file as necessary, go to the folder the compose file is located in and run docker compose up -d and your build will start