Hello lemmings lemmons and any other lemm out there. I’ve always wanted to try to switch to more privacy focused options but it’s always been difficult for me as I’m not really tech savvy and frankly for a very long time haven’t really cared about privacy.
Transitioning has also been hard since I feel like I’m pretty much the antithesis of this community: using an iPhone and 2 windows computers (one for home use and one for my college classes on campus) and use OneDrive to sync work between the 3 devices.
Pretty much every account I have is under my gmail account and a second back up email is also under gmail.
Frankly I’m sure this is the highest form of insult to this community but I use edge simply because I’ve given up trying to fight Microsoft
So it’s been a challenge to switch but for browsers and just copy paste all my bookmarks and saved passwords when I download Firefox on my phone and computers but as for email and online accounts switching off that gmail account seems daunting but not impossible and I have no idea what to do to replace OneDrive since it is useful and works in file explorer with no extra software
I figured if anyone was smart enough to tackle the abomination that is my privacy it’d be you guys
One alternative to OneDrive is a local server or just having bigger long term drives on your system.
Also what you can do is encrypt files with gpg for example and upload them to any free cloud service, like for example Google drive.
Like i said I’m not very tech savvy so a local server is something I’d like to try to avoid maybe unless it can run out of the box.
As for encryption wdym by gpg im assuming that’s an encryption service
It’s not black or white, so don’t worry about trying to do everything on your own at once. Just taking steps to enhancing your privacy like you’re doing now asking questions is already a step in the right direction. If you’re not confident in hosting locally for now, you can try one of the providers NextCloud recommends. Sure it’s not as good as hosting your own, but it’s a big step away from using OneDrive or Google Drive.
