Hey folks, over the past years I changed all my stuff step by step from big tech to open source and europe alternatives. I came from Google Workspace to iCloud with advanced protection to Proton to kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)

I did this with all my stuff. From Instagram, X, Facebook, to Fediverse. And I like it.

Now I heard that Swiss is planning to add laws which are able to identify me, even as a German, and have all the rights to read my drive stuff if they want to. It’s not possible for me to trust them anymore.

So they choice is really thin out there. I could host my own NextCloud instance, and I did A LOT of times on my webspace and every time an updates comes, it brakes and I loose all my stuff. I don’t want this and I don’t want the overhead to fix this stuff or make sure, I can go back. 99% of all updates didn’t even let me login anymore. No login at all. Whatever … I thought about a NAS. Before the NAS, there is an OpenWRT router with AdGuard Home and Wireguard VPN.

So. Is this the end for my chase of a trustworthy Contact, Calender, Drive? If I buy this, I am on the most independent stuff possible? (I don’t want a big server or something like this - I just want to settle down and don’t switch companies because their country decided to get the next NSA).

And if so: Which one is good in terms of privacy? Synology? QNAP? I would buy a 2 bay NAS where one drive is the clone of the other, so I can change drives, if one is dead, without worrying at all.

Thanks for reading, excuse me for my bad english, and thanks for your ideas in advance.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    6·
    14 hours ago

    Well you could do that but honestly a NAS is “just” yet another computer with a specific form factor. So … do buy one if you want to but nothing is preventing you from grabbing whatever hardware you have around, e.g. old laptop, unused SBC like a Raspberry Pi, desktop gathering dust, put Docker or Podman on it, get going. If you want access from the outside you can use TailScale (easiest to setup), WireGuard indeed or OpenVPN.

    Yes IMHO having your own data on your own NAS where you entirely control access (e.g. LAN only, no VPN even unless you go on holiday) is the safest and most reliable.

    kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)

    Interesting, I’ll check that because indeed for now the support is not non-existent yet still not good enough IMHO.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      It’s not even the form factor. You can build a NAS out of anything. Desktop cubes, rack servers, regular desktop towers, even a laptop. Some chassis just might give you features like hot-swap bays.

    • minternational@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Afaik you can only use their apps on phone and import everything on desktop with their bridge. This is not enough. For example, I use WebDav to backup my encrypted Joplin notes. Not possible with Proton.