After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
  • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I‘m also migrating from iCloud (to NC among other things) and its been slow to say the least. Things I struggle with:

    • setting up photo alternative with face recognition (recognition app is okayish but not as strong as I‘d like)
    • getting whatsapp to somehow backup outside of iCloud
    • getting my passwords out of iCloud (you need a mac for that) into vaultwarden
    • NC being quite slow now that a couple apps and mid 5 digits of photos are in there, will try memcache soonish

    For those who don’t know NC, these things are 1/10 of the stuff that NC is actually good at imo.

    How is your experience so far?