Hello! I would like to take some distance from Google because I don’t like its hegemony over the internet. I’ve switched from chrome to Firefox, I’ve stopped using it as a search engine and I’ve started using duckduckgo for starters, but I’m a bit more lost on how to replace its other services. What are yours alternatives to Google? I’ve heard about proton mail to replacement Gmail, how is it? Do you know something to replace maps and drive?

  • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve made a comment about NASs a while ago explaining mostly the important parts of it (https://lemmy.ca/comment/1524030), but to answer your questions :

    Can you create a NAS with any modem or is the fritzbox particularly good for this job?

    I would not recommend using a router/modem as your nas server because there are better ways to do this. Simplest way would be to get a small computer (like a raspberry pi, thinkcenter, etc) and attack external harddrives. Then, next step would be to choose how you want to share and use the storage; I mostly recommend NextCloud for beginners/intermediates, super easy to setup and start using out of the box.

    For you I would recommend following my comment. Once you’re comfortable with wanting to make your own NAS, then I would recommend you to look into hardware and start planning out a build. If it is too expensive, look towards small, mini computers like rpi, thinkcenter, librecomputer, etc. and then slowly expand from there.

    Yes, making a NAS is expensive at the start, if you do decide to make one with all brand new gear, but it is worth it for your privacy imo. The trip is long, sometimes annoying as fuck, but the end-result is infinitely better.

    If you have questions let me know!

    • BefernafardofoOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the detailed reply! I’ll probably look into building a Nas with a raspberry pi then, sounds doable. I’m sure it’s more annoying than using a cloud service in the beginning, but I agree that is absolutely better. A quote always stuck with me: “a cloud service is simply another guy’s computer” and I would rather struggle a bit in the beginning rather than giving my personal photos/files to a stranger. Plus, I can probably make my NAS as big as I want.

    • macniel@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would not recommend using a router/modem as your nas server because there are better ways to do this.

      while this is certainly true that a dedicated server would be the better option, using my fritzbox with a SATA USB drive attached to it as a NAS server has been the cheapest way for me to realise it :)