Benjamin Donato-Woodger  

Gotta ask as well, is switching to a cloud a good step? What tech so I need to do that?

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didnt-one-able :verified:  
@ben_dw I have dabbled with it. Its very modular. It can do alot. So it depends what you want to do. Could run it on a pi with an external drive attached if you wanted lol. But you wont be serving files to multiple people.
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didnt-one-able :verified:  
@ben_dw There is a snap package if you want to test it out but I warn you the package devs are stubborn as all hell and will not implement certain features
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Benjamin Donato-Woodger  

@didnt1able forgive my ignorance, what's a snap package?

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didnt-one-able :verified:  

@ben_dw It an application and all its dependancies packaged into one package and runs in a sandbox. Easy to install basically one click. If you are on ubuntu. Its not apt it is managed with Snappy

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didnt-one-able :verified:  

@ben_dw Here are some links in relation to nextcloud snap

Snapcraft GitHub

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@didnt1able
If you don't want to selfhost with pi (its recommended) you can use disroot.org cloud witch uses Nextcloud and has all implementations of it (calendar, contacts, tasks etc). You get 4GB and e-mail witch can use PGP keys for encryption of e-mails. Disroot is legit alternative imo, and GDPR compliant.
@ben_dw

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Benjamin Donato-Woodger  

@nikolal So would I have to buy shop.syncloud.org/index.php?ro or would just buying a raspberry pi work? Thank you for walking me through this!

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@ben_dw
No, if you are not experienced with Linux I recommend you to use disroot.org, but if you want to dive into problematics if setting up home server here is good guide that will walk you through it.
pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-ne

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Benjamin Donato-Woodger  

@nikolal Thank you so so much! So I should only get a raspberry pi and set it up on my external hard drive basically?

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Nikola Lakić :arch:  

@ben_dw
You set up external drive on pi, yes. You should get pi 4 because of usb 3.0, you may need it for good write speed

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Benjamin Donato-Woodger
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@nikolal I did hours of bad searching and you gave me a clear path forward in almost no time. I am very grateful — thank you!

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