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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

Does anyone know of a turnkey 'de-bigtech' solution, service or facilitator? My attempts have stalled and fallen into the 'too hard' basket. I am willing to pay. Not sure how much.. what's your price? Preferably NZ based but most locations except USA and hell considered.

My main email is somewhere I'm happy with but I need to point a number of my subscriptions to it instead of Google.
Photos are all in Google
Files mainly Dropbox
Phone Android
OS Linux on a laptop, win on desktop
Software almost all FOSS/Linux except a couple of things which only run nicely on windows.

Nexcloud plus graphene(?) phone plus Linux seems like it could work but I am 100% sure I'm not the one to do it.

#EscapeBigTech
#TechHelp
#DeGoogle

Paul Kater - Antifa

@Niall If your issues mainly is around files and photos, look at a Nextcloud provider. I can't tell what else you need from your description. Online Office? Magic?

Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman

@Niall just noting for photos, Flickr are still around and as far as I can tell significantly less evil than Google.

Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק

@Niall I support your goal and I hope you succeed. Hypothesis: the reason no alternatives are exactly “turnkey” is that Google has invested so heavily in the user interfaces and the integration of their many products, that it's hard to compete with the convenience they offer.

Bonsai861

@Niall Proton would help a lot of these. Proton Mail from email, Proton Drive for files and photo sync. Zeitkapsl is good for photos but would need to find a separate file storage solution. If you're happy self hosting then Nextcloud for files and photos could work well too.

GrapheneOS is a good temp measure for Google Android until true Google alternatives mature (like Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS and PostmarketOS).

Y Gath Goch

@stephen @Niall yes! I have a Flickr account

Neil Munro

@Niall Jottacloud is good (Norway) and covers photos and files pretty well. For more comprehensive photos, immich is amazing, but not turnkey and requires tech knowledge to install.

Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

@paulk i don't need online office. I need a phone solution, as stated. I don't know if you're being facetious with your magic comment so I'll ignore it.

Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

@Niall my replacement for Google photos is Immich - https://immich.app - I've been using it for a few years for automatic phone photos & video backup (can share media with family & friends, or even let them my immich for their own backups as well). It's superb. A couple of us are exploring offering it commercially among other services, right here in Aotearoa. And yeah, NextCloud is also an excellent option. Happy to chat about it (or give you a 'walk through') if you're interested.

Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

@ygathgoch @stephen thanks. Hadn't considered that. It's yankeedoodle though and I'm trying to avoid them.

Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

@bonsai861 funny, I have a paid Proton account but got it when their storage solution was very basic. I should revisit that.

Paul Kater - Antifa

@Niall Right. Nextcloud has a good application for Android and iOS so that would work for accessing files and photos.

I've read good things about Pcloud but I have no hands-on experience with it so that might be worth reading up.

Good luck de-bigteching!

Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman

@Niall @ygathgoch I believe the new owners are Irish, although probably the servers are in the US.

Bonsai861

@Niall Yeah it has gotten a lot better. They even have Sheets alternative now. The more DeGoogling that happens, the more they will more motivated to provide alternatives.