My man went and put on a collard shirt for this lesson
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I can't quite pin down why exactly, but I've pivoted hard towards self-hosting these past few months. My biggest issue at the moment is finding a Gmail alternative.
My problem with self hosting something like email is that I'm used to not consistently having power/internet, in some cases (Ex:jellyfin) that's not something I care about, but with an email server I worry about missing something becouse I lost connection for a few hours
My problem with self hosting something like email is that I’m used to not consistently having power/internet, in some cases (Ex:jellyfin) that’s not something I care about, but with an email server I worry about missing something becouse I lost connection for a few hours
Email is extremely robust though, servers will try to connect later.
@peveleigh @Doomguy I try to self-host as much as possible but with email I am willing to go with protonmail (and even pay for an upper tier). However I did learn how to set up my own email server on my raspberry pi using citadel which was pretty cool
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I quite like Proton Mail. Self-hosted email can be tough because so many people are concentrated on only a handful of email providers, and so if your self-hosted email server gets flagged as spam it can be a huge pain in the ass to get off that list.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards Proton mail with a custom domain.
Proton is OpenSource, another alternative is Tutanota or Murena (Nextcloud). This are very reliable mail services.
Proton mail is great, I use the paid tier and have multiple email addresses setup with different auto sorting folder rules. It's nice to be able to have 10 different emails on one account if needed.
Self hosting email is very painful to do for the reasons hybrid havoc explained in this thread.
Posteo.de is a great alternative to Gmail. It supports IMAP access natively and is subject to GPDR
For whatever reason, every time the word "telemetry" gets mentioned, in any subreddit (but programming ones especially) a TON of microsoft defenders come out to say how keyloggers are actually a good thing now.
They aren't, and they've never been necessary.
This almost made me spit out my coffee LOL. On a serious note, I'm pleasantly surprised no one here is defending keyloggers yet. Currently inking and keylogging are some of my main selling points to steer friends away from Windows.
True in essence, but OSS is not necessarily synonymous with privacy, security or reliability, this only depends on the developer and the intentions of this and maintenance. There is nothing more dangerous than an unattended OSS, precisely because the code is public and not everyone who reads it has good intentions. On the other hand, not all proprietary software is automatically garbage, abusive or spyware, if we exclude those from the BigBrother companies. In each software or service, regardless of whether it is OpenSource or not, it is always important to read the TOS and PP, if people did, they would often be surprised and not always pleasant. FOSS is always preferable, but do not cling to the fact that it is the universal panacea, it is not, it's the common sense.