And this is somehow better?

There is a lot of room between “BigTech” and “Joe Average” doing it for his neighbours. Mailbox.org, etc. (see my other post here)

There isn’t a single one. Even the ones that claim they are (Lupus) are actually just rebranded chinese ones (Dahua in that case).

Better get a hardwarewise reputable one and isolate it from the internet with its own VLAN,etc.

Some already listed here, some newly added: AVM(Germany) - Fritzbox (they are actually partially build in the EU)

Lancom (Germany)

Mikrotik(Latavia)

Turris (Czech R.) - Omnia

Teltonika - Lithuania

Vantiva - France (formerly Technicolour, I don’t think one can buy them directly, though)

Softwarewise of course OPNsense.

Btw: OpenWRT is technically not an EU-project, the foundation is a US foundation, but that wouldn’t bother me too much atm.

In terms of market share AVM seems to be the largest one in the EU.

Yeah,big US tech is cancer - but I am fortunate enough to not live in the US and there are enough mid size companies that fall under reasonable laws and governmental oversight (in the good way,not the bad way) that I can choose from. People always seem to think it’s “selfhost or big tech” but there is a shitton of solutions between them.

Mailbox.org, Infomaniak(but I would be cautious on them due to the changing legal framework), posteo,Mullvad,Photoprism,Passbolt,Hetzner Storage Space,Ionos, Deepl, etc. are all a sane middle ground for most people and

I much rather have people do that than fall into the arms of their neighbourhood asshole (and let’s face it,there are a lot of difficult characters in IT). Because first of all it’s people’s lives who are at stake - You can wait for the first creep who will use access to his neighbours photos (Immich,Photoprism,etc.) for some uncanny purposes. Who will use the WiFi&Device passwords saved to get access to someones CCTV system to spy on his neighbours. Etc. Etc. And, and this is as much of an issue,it will only take a few of these people to drive people away from all open source products, right back into BigTech.

Lastly: It’s okay,that you see it that way. But people need to be informed that these are the risks. If you would take those risks (and don’t think from an IT role but from your neighbours perspective here), go for it. I wouldn’t, we can absolutely agree to disagree. And I don’t think many would once someone tells them the truth: “Yeah, BigTech can absolutely access your files and possibly your passwords with enough efforts. If you let Joe over here host your files and passwords he can,but BigTech can’t.” I am not sure how people would decide.

Yeah. And I am sure you won’t do anything bad.

But we all know how many that will not be the case. There were countless cases of school IT staff being malicious, of healthcare IT staff being malicious. Do you think that won’t be happening regularly on a small community scale? And that goes both ways: What happens when your neighbour suddenly accuses you of stealing passwords from you?

Don’t get me wrong - I am also providing services to my friends and family. But I absolutely do refuse to do so for any vital or financially debilitating services (which I consider vaultwarden for example). And I am seeing large issues with promoting this model as a solution - which need to be addressed.

Lol. So we trust local governments and communities now?

Has anyone ever worked with them IT wise?

I do so in four different EU countries and know people who do in the US and Canada. And…well…there is a reason local governments often went towards the cloud services. Do people think Joe Admin in Bumfucknowhere can operate what basically becomes a MiniDC? And who controls that?

Sorry. Either go “host at home” and only fuck up things for oneself. Or do it properly with a proper DC. Colocate if you want. But that? I know it sounds appealing, especially for someone entering selfhosting (like the author did a few weeks ago). But there is a reason hosting is a business once it comes to other peoples data.

Switzerland never had solid privacy laws - and is known for intelligence service overreach for decades.

They had a Stasi like system of “who to imprison” when “the time comes”.

They listen to all IP traffic in and out the country - which is concerning in times of traffic pattern analysis. And they are known for their close cooperation with US intelligence services.

Protons (and Threemas) claim of “soo good swiss privacy laws” is nothing more than swiss-washing. And they know it.

Proton has already given away data of its customers (climate activists) to the swiss authorities. And only talked about it when the press got onto it.

Actually, don’t be. It sounds horrible. And I had horrible variants of it.

BUT: It can be an absolutely amazing thing. Something you still mention to people who sat on the same table with you 15 years later. Which it was when I ate it. Since then I tried it multiple times and it was always shit,even in a Michelin star restaurant. We managed to make a decent one ourselves once - but that includes starting a Mayonnaise from scratch which is somewhat tedious.

So… There is a good chance it was good.

Not only that,but NASA gave this knowledge away for free - to the universities that taught the people who now work for Muskler.

Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.

Another happy user here,btw.

In theory you can use their drive to Sync KeePass,but that’s not what you meant,I know.

But: While it’s already quite some time ago one of my commercial customers - who uses them- got told by them they "are currently strongly considering it -. Might be just sales talk or my client misunderstood, might be a hidden info. Knowing the works of Peer Hennlein and the current direction the company has I wouldn’t be too surprised if they are working on something.

It sure would be great.

Did you just assume my gender?

But no, I don’t give a fuck about punching down on that guy. He deserves it. Believe me.

So they finally found the penis of my neighbour a few houses down the street? It must be that considering the compensation he needs m

I am literally a central European founder and current CEO and have been responsible for human ressource management for up to 150 employees before.

And yes, when I have a named primary workplace" in the work contract the employee can more or less say “haha,go fuck yourself” for a long time - until I have built a case to prove to the court why it impedes my business more than what is fair . Hint: Five years post COVID and none won so far - pacta sunt servanda for the Latin speaking folks here.

And protected from dismissal - almost every employee is. If I want to reduce my headcount of course I can - and I better not be hiring back on the side (then it’s very likely age based discrimination). But if I just want Paul Workfomhome gone who has not done anything wrong? Good luck. The court will fuck you right over. Even dismissing someone who actually has done something wrong is quite formalized. Rightfully so.

And yes I wanted to take a shot at the US-centrism a few Lemmyists still have, cause, quite frankly,it’s annoying and hidebound.

Vaultwarden is not that hard to selfhost, especially with something like Cloudron or YunoHost. Other than that: keePass and any Cloud Filesharing of your choice works very well.

Proton is not a EU company. And realistically it’s merely a Swiss-washed company.

Just saying: Proton is NOT an EU company and merely Swisswashed. (And Swiss privacy laws suck already and they try hard to make it worse)

(German source: How Proton ratted out climate activists to the Swiss government: https://www.it-markt.ch/cybersecurity/2021-09-07/schweizer-behoerden-zwingen-protonmail-klimaaktivisten-zu-verpetzen)

Not everyone works in the US,my friend. A lot of people don’t have *haha, fuck you plebs" labour laws.

I am currently open for any software solution, that’s why I came here.

I have moved so often,that my wife more or less demanded that my wedding vowels include that we never will move without a professional company again. And I don’t mean “within the same city”. Multiple countries around the world, 17.000km are the furthest in one step, in total close to 100k km. Once intercontinental mere months after a life altering injury and only weeks since the last hospital stay(bonus: Wife was preggo as well and suffering a lot). So I have some experience with being unanchored and getting it back on track under hard conditions.

First and foremost: Take it slow.

Getting your life “back on track” is a marathon,not a sprint.

Surviving everyday life is already hard enough and the extra effort for"getting back on track" isn’t possible every day. That’s simply unrealistic. Especially in the beginning everything is often so improvised that it needs extra effort which in turn then leads to less energy to actually fix things. That’s normal. We are all human.

Next important point: Don’t make a big concept. IT.WONT.WORK. Planning ahead massively and have one big plan how you want to organise everything, do this and that,etc. just costs you time,sometimes money and a lot of energy. And by the time you arrive at step XY the circumstances have changed and you need to redo everything. Or not. You will never fulfill such a plan fully - and that can often drain motivation to actually do things from one.

Another one: Little organisation, little steps, little successes. I love Kanban boards for that. Make a “Small plan”. “organising the cable drawers” is currently on mine. “Buy bins” “Print Labels for USB-C cables”,“Enter cables into snipeit” are tasks on it. It doesn’t take much to enter these, each task is small enough to be done in half an hour. And it gives you a good sense of accomplishment - you visually see that you have moved two or three tasks in the “Finished” row. Yay! Dopamine!

Lastly: Use tools. Especially when you have a lot of “small stuff”. Homebox, Snipeit,Grocy or a simple Excel/LibreCalc Spreadsheet. It doesn’t matter. But it helps. But stay realistic. Will you really scan all the food items in your fridge all the time from now on? Rather unlikely. But maybe the rarely used cans in a hiden corner or the emergency supply things should be. Same goes for cables and stuff.

You can do it.