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by kmclean 6y ago
Thanks so much!
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by kmclean 6y ago
I'm curious about this, too.. I'm trying out a couple of different ones now, but Google photos is pretty hard to beat, especially its semantic searching. Also I know there are loads of them I haven't tried yet.
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by kmclean 6y ago
Not sure this is exactly what the commenter had in mind, but I think of Clojure's "design rationale" documents as good examples of thinking through a problem before executing. This is one for the language itself, but there ar
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by kmclean 6y ago
I haven't done as much research about CloudFlare. I generally appreciate their views on privacy and the internet, but I have heard some really sketchy things about the way they route traffic and what you're describing sounds worri
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by kmclean 6y ago
That's a good idea! I hadn't thought about using docker.
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah I agree.. DDG has limitations, but I find the first 2 pages of Google are almost entirely ads now (either literal paid ads or posts full of ads and affiliate links). The whole SEO racket has incentivized all the wrong kinds of optimiza
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah this is a fair point! I found the rhetoric in the de-goggling community to be a bit purist and defeatist at times and I'm more of a "better done than perfect" kind of person, but I also don't want to be unrealistic
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by kmclean 6y ago
> requires a lot more effort than just avoiding using google.com, youtube.com, gmail.com, etc. Yeah this is fair! I don't want to give the impression that this is all it takes to get Google to stop stalking you. But I do think it at
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by kmclean 6y ago
I like Mozilla's descriptions of increasingly senior roles. https://twitter.com/Gankra_/status/1046438955439271936/photo...
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by kmclean 6y ago
I love this! Probably because it's how I operate, too. It sounds hectic to a lot of people, but I thrive with a little organized chaos like this. Also when I have a dozen things on the go there's always at least one that is intere
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What I Use Instead of Google(kiramclean.com)
294 points by kmclean 6y ago|208 comments
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by kmclean 6y ago
Maybe an apt analogy for the "not food" described here could be YAML and other config. I have seen way too much logic buried in strings in miscellaneous config files. It's so annoying to work with.
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by kmclean 6y ago
There's an iOS app you can configure to automatically upload your photos to your nextcloud so they're available from anywhere ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nextcloud/id1125420102 ). You might want t
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by kmclean 6y ago
I use Protonmail (with a custom domain) for email, so I didn't include anything about that here. It's possible to do with Nextcloud, too (and maybe I should look into it now that I have this.. would probably be cheaper), but seems
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by kmclean 6y ago
That's really reassuring to hear! I'm planning to stick with this for a year or two to see what pain it actually causes me, but I could definitely see maintenance headaches being thing to motivate a switch to something else. Hopef
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah I still use youtube sometimes, but I do it without an account. You do lose a lot, like remembering what you watched and better recommendations, but you also win some, like Google not remembering what you watched :)
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah I'm a little worried about the maintenance burden, tbh. I'm not actually a linux/sysadmin type person, but I was pretty keen to achieve my goal of being Google free by 2021 (which I'm happy to announce with this mig
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by kmclean 6y ago
I use namecheap.com. The prices vary a lot, I use a .cloud domain, I think obscure TLDs and domain name choices are cheaper, but I'm not exactly sure how their pricing actually works.
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by kmclean 6y ago
That's a good point! I should add the total cost to the post. I mentioned I use the cheapest Linode server but didn't actually say how much that is. I pay $5/month (USD) for the server (except I got the first two months for f
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah it's actually cheaper (and simpler :) ) to sign up with a nextcloud provider if all you want is a nextcloud account. There are other reasons to run your own instance, but honestly I think most of them come down to the hacker novel
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah I think Google is pretty hard to beat for anyone who only cares about cheap storage, unfortunately. One argument I have for that crowd is that there's nothing stopping Google from coming seeking rent in the future (like they'
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by kmclean 6y ago
For me it was just the convenience of being able to have most of my cloud things in one place (like calendar, reminders, contacts, notes, etc). I suspect it's probably not the best solution for each of those individually, and I'm
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Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google(kiramclean.com)
283 points by kmclean 6y ago|172 comments
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah this is the hardest one to replace for me, too. Nextcloud has a photos integration that has reasonable facial recognition/grouping, but Google photos semantic search is really useful. Part of what makes Google so evil though is th
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by kmclean 6y ago
"Best" is a subjective measure. For a lot of people being tracked all around the internet is a non-starter. I would also argue that a lot of Google products have stagnated and are not the best on offer anymore. Hey and Protonmail
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by kmclean 6y ago
The list is a bit fragmented. It doesn't really give Nextcloud enough credit. Nextcloud can replace _most_ of google in one shot -- calendar, reminders, contacts, drive, docs, hangouts, maps, photos, and more ( https://apps.n
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by kmclean 6y ago
He seems to be confusing working long hours with working hard. Those aren't the same thing. I would even argue they're in conflict with each other. Nobody does good work when they're "obsessed" with something. Obses
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by kmclean 6y ago
I find spec really interesting but struggle to find a good fit for it in my projects. I end up getting bogged down writing generators and give up, or end up breaking down functions into such small pieces that speccing every one of them resu
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by kmclean 6y ago
I have an onyx boox note 2 and like it quite a bit, but note taking only really works on the built-in app, play store apps that support handwriting input are not responsive enough so it's a very glitchy experience. The stock note takin
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by kmclean 6y ago
Wow we must have worked at the same place. I could have written this description. I wonder how common it is.

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