I’ll go first with an example below.
What are y’all opinions as to what to self-host (on a computer, instance, or local computer) vs what is better to pay for through subscription or purchase?
The goal is to increase
- privacy from databrokers, ad brokers, corporate overlords, and from family and friends.
- security from threats below targeted nation state attacks, below zero-day vulns.
Example:
Self-host your calendar, contacts, and tasks Subscribe to email via protonmail to avoid all the issues with self-hosting mail servers
Well I don’t even rent an apartment but a room. I don’t have space to self host anything cuz I’m about to move out who knows when. Not sure what privacy strategy I can follow other than just use so called “privacy services” and obfuscate as much as possible.
There are many apps that do local backups and don’t have network access. These are technically self hosted.
can you give me an example?
Not OP, but Syncthing is a good example.
SimpleMobileTools has many apps doing this. I use Calendar, Draw, Notes, and Gallery
Quillpad - a note taker very similar to Keep
Keepass - offline accountless password manager
Syncthing - for syncing files between devices.
OSMand - once a map is downloaded it runs without internet.