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.
The problem is you’d need someone to do maintenance and updates too, because stuff can/does break and if you didn’t set it up, you won’t know how to fix it.
You can sign up with a Nextcloud hosting provider for access to files, notes, photo management, calendar, contacts, etc…
For email I recommend a solid provider like mailbox.org or skiff.com
For video streaming with Plex and the supporting *arrs you can install all of those on windows AFAIK, so you can probably do those yourself with minimal effort on learning new things.
Wow, thanks for the mailbox.org recommendation. Looks like an easy and reasonably priced way to move away from Google for email and calendar.