Primarily on site with NextCloud for getting to my important documents via mobile.
Backups are going to Wasabi via restic but if you want to do something a little more “live”, rclone mount with Wasabi also works well, even on Windows.
As always, I suggest encrypting before putting it anywhere but your own devices.
So you want to backup or do you want to file share/work together on documents?
For backup I use Spideroak for all our families computers. It did a solid job over the last four Linux laptops and MacBooks I used. I only backup the home directory and the external drive with my Photo Library.
For Cloud Storage I use OneDrive. I don’t have much to share, so this is normally enough.
I’d say like 65% backup, 35% share/collaboration. It’s why this simple decision has become unnecessarily complex for me haha. I want a balance of privacy, yet I want the ease of access and user-friendliness of Dropbox.
From this thread, I think ente is partly perfect for my needs. I’ve been trying out filen and it’s been quite good, but I might stick with Dropbox till the Proton mac app launches and see how it is.
Might end up just doing NC + storej, though. Many have said NC has improved significantly as of late so it might be worth a look at once more.
They admit to be sending your IP to Bing with every search too.
“For example, when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting”
I pay for it anyway since I was lucky enough to get a few accounts on a private forum where everything is shared via mega, it’s very active and a great community. Only a few times I haven’t found something I was looking for there, and that was quickly solved by posting a request. (The only way to join is to get personally invited. And no, I won’t use my invites for randoms, don’t ask).
Haven’t used torrents for close to a decade now, it’s nice to have basically anything easily findable with direct download from mega.
google drive.
i pretty much sold my soul to google at this point
anyway they have my address, payment info, all of my photos since 2014, my preferences from YouTube, google maps data and since I’m using google location sharing and find my phone, they have access to my exact location at all times; and half of my payments go through google pay and I’m using android with my google account.
Surveillance is less about knowing specifics about one person, but broad trends on large groups. How communities respond.
This is why prices are 2.99 not 3 in many parts of the world.
Why we frame it “free delivery or 10% off for pick up” instead of “10% more for delivery.”
Why all commercials are louder than the content they play from.
Why you’re more likely to pay extra for the same item if it’s packaged nicely.
These are the data points of value to capitalism. And this is why mass surveillance is so dangerous. Because it arms those willing to exploit us with vast amounts of information, most of it unobtainable without the invasion of privacy. It’s these data that makes things like V for Vendetta possible (given the right timing).
Espionage (foreign and domestic) are the byproducts of the Information Age.
I mean, this sort of thing is good for reaching people. If nobody uses “mainstream” platforms to voice their concerns, how is anyone going to hear them?
How do you like Filen so far? I tried it out with a few directories and it felt very snappy. Plus, the .fileignore feature is phenomenal and I wish more providers would do it!
I heard when filen was first launched there were some issues with their encryption and some file loss, do you happen to know if this has largely been fixed? Thanks!
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