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Curious what you mean by "own our own lives again". Are you planning to run your own email servers (or any other service that Google provides)? Or just switch
by btian 10y ago
Curious what you mean by "own our own lives again".
Are you planning to run your own email servers (or any other service that Google provides)? Or just switch to another vendor?
- philiphodgen 10y agoI don't know what to do. But it irks me that I follow the easier, softer way -- knowing that I am causing trouble to myself by doing so.
- kinkdr 10y agoMy answer to this problem is less dramatic; I am just hedging my bets. For search and maps, I use Google, for personal hardware, Apple, for cloud servers, AWS, for email, Fastmail on my own domain, and so on. It is slightly more inconvenient than having one Google account to rule everything, but it helps me at leas feel a bit saner..
- dkarapetyan 10y agoFastmail with a personal domain is very easy to set up.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoThat is great advice. I have the same setup, except I use OVH instead of AWS because the cost is much lower, but still meets my needs (AWS, GCP, and Azure are all great services that I have used, no criticism intended).
- naasking 10y agoSomething like sandstorm would give you more power over your own data without the burden of running your own services.
- rincebrain 10y agoe: Ignore this, I was mistaken, see downthread. Eventually, this may be true. In practice, I believe Sandstorm still requires nontrivial amounts of handholding when updates occur.
- kentonv 10y agoEh? Sandstorm automatically updates itself and apps...
- rincebrain 10y agoMy apologies, I misunderstood some of the grumbling I had heard from some friends running a Sandstorm installation. I just checked back with them, and they confirmed that I'm entirely mistaken.