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What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler? (feddit.de)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by lens17@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am trying to re-adjust how much effort I want to put into privacy concerns. Too much stuff I'm using isn't working properly or using a lot of my mental resources that I need elsewhere.

For (a bad) example: I recently performed a half-switch from my self-hosted Nextcloud instance to ProtonDrive, in the hope that it would spare me the stress to maintain my private Nextcloud. Unfortunately, it doesn't, as basic functionality like cross-device-sync is not possible (there isn't even a client app for Linux, as of yet).

This brings me to the question: have you found any services/apps/stuff that significantly eases your life while still being privacy friendly? I know, this is a broad question, but I think this is for the best as this thread then maybe even has use for other users.

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[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My biggest issue with Syncthing is that it becomes unusable for large amounts of data due to the lack of selective sync (ignore lists are cumbersome as hell) and lack of virtual file system support. I have about 8TB of data on my NAS that I want to access remotely and it is not feasible to have duplicate copies of that much data on all of my devices.

[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could simply sync select subdirectories.

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

That's what i do. Work perfectly

[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Agreed.

Resilio sync works better. But the “sync identity” thing is broken, and configuring it declaratively is hard.

But 100% agree. Would love a virtual file system solution. Ideally one which you can use to fill available disk space and ensure you always have a minimum number of copies.