After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Meet -> Jitsi

    For Drive, do you need the editor to be web-based? If not, you could just enable SSH access and access it through SFTP using keyfile authentication.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thx… will have a look into jitsi. I thought it was just a webrtc server that other services can connect to via plugins.

      A web based editor is a necessity, so I can acces files from anywhere, which I also do sometimes.

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Which file formats do you mainly use? You can likely open them on mobile or desktop as long as you have a viewer for the filetypes without requiring a web-based viewer/editor, which would reduce the strain on the server as well.

        It also makes the server setup way simpler, as it just deal with hosting and serving files, and the data processing / rendering is all done locally.

        Easier to do backups too.

        • adONis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          As of right now, I mainly store PDFs and docs/sheets on drive, which I frequently access via desktop (browswe) or mobile. So these two are a necessity.

          • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You’ll have to convert your docs and sheets to another format if you migrate to something else, that’s kind of inevitable.