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Syncthing looks interesting, I'm guessing it works nicely. Google drive has caused me a fair amount of pain over the years.
What do you use for backups? I've a feeling you've covered this before, do you manage them yourself? I currently use backblaze, I don't trust myself to manage backups.
Also interested in fastmail, privacy aside I'm just a bit tired of Gmail.
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Syncthing is everything. We've fully replaced Google Drive and Dropbox with it. It just works, and it's perfect.
There's no central server, you can have as many shared folders as you want wherever you want... and it's basically two-way trust, you share a folder from device and the receiving device must accept it.
I have Syncthing on my NAS (as well as every computer I have) and I backup my NAS. I don't need to be perfect at this... Syncthing means any one of my devices need survive... the NAS isn't the only copy. But I use rsync once a month onto a HDD which I store outside of the house.
Velocio
Ugh... I feel I'm going too far, but yet to not do so feels dumb.
I've basically accidentally de-Googled my life.
So far I've moved email to Fastmail, calendar to Fastmail, Google Drive has been replaced by Syncthing, Maps I use whilst logged out, authenticator has been replaced with Aegis (Android), and password manager with Bitwarden.
But now I've even stopped using Chrome, am using VPN more, relying on NoScript and Firefox.
Seems weird... what started were concerns that I'd made my email account too powerful and that all my eggs were in one basked (a basket where an automated script might find me in breach of some undefined rule and then rescind all access to the account).
Has now been further reinforced by reading about the sheer breadth of tracking that is being undertaken and how they're making blocking it really hard.
No real point to this comment except to say that my prior posts are out of date... my approach to being online is evolving. And LFGSS is one of the very few properties I trust online.