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You can basically go in two directions with this. Invest the resources necessary to use the open source and self hosted tools, or settle for the convenience of
by fasterik 3y ago
You can basically go in two directions with this. Invest the resources necessary to use the open source and self hosted tools, or settle for the convenience of proprietary services and be mindful about what you put in them. I use Dropbox, but everything I put in Dropbox is either encrypted or is something I wouldn't care about if it got leaked onto the open internet. As someone who has spent many hours of his life tinkering with self-hosted solutions, after a certain point I just decided that I wasn't deriving any real benefit from it and my time and energy would be better spent elsewhere.
- JohnFen 3y agoThere's a third option here, too: don't use the tools.
- caconym_ 3y agoI appreciate the value of time, but the reality of Dropbox and similar commercial solutions is that they're constantly changing and forcing their customers to deal with those changes. A good self-hosted stack may take more up-front effort, but it's much less likely to change without your explicit buy-in.