I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

  • kpw
    -1•7 months ago

    I have spent […] thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms

    I don’t believe you. If you spend that much time on something you get good at it.

      • kpw
        1•7 months ago

        But it gets easier with every thing. You learn the more general concepts too.

    • shnizmuffinEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      If you spend that much time on something you get good at it.

      My bowling average begs to differ.

    • @biscuitswalrus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      Lol, a thousand hours would be 6 months of full time work (40 hour week). I’m not sure I’d employ someone who has 6 months of IT experience into a systems administrator job and task them to build a an erp/dms/unified coms solution for a client.

      But this guy should be able to do it as a hobby?