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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is safer in the sense that, when you selfhost, you have to take care of your own backups. You have to make sure your data is still there, even if two hard drives fail, or your house catches fire and your server burns down. Hertzner is doing that for you.

But you are right of course, from a privacy standpoint it would be much better to have your data on your own server and only send encrypted backups to a remote server like Hertzner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That makes a lot of sense. I think I'd like to do it, eventually, if for no other reason than I am 33, and I feel like my time to learn this shit is slipping away pretty quickly sometimes, but maybe not for all my important stuff like family pictures. Start small and just make sure i can do it first, once I understand a little more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I started with 30, so not far off. My first step was to try to daily drive Linux. Best decision ever, working with a computer suddenly was fun and exciting again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've been daily driving fedora for a few years now, but I never really get deeper into anything than opening Firefox, and a few Gnome extensions. Haha