This person sounds like a shill, and the article sounds like a desperate plea for people to come back. There is not a single mention of accepting risks associated with Google, or the reason why he thought maintenance was not going to be a problem, or what his maintenance issues actually were. I assume maintenance is worse if you’re doing something illegal or hosting media servers that access material in violation of copyright laws.
>I assume maintenance is worse if you’re doing something illegal or hosting media servers that access material in violation of copyright laws.
files are files.
TLDR: Does not know how to setup VPN for remote access. His NAS needed constant maintenance and broke frequently (playing around too much?). Used Youtube as information source / to solve problems.
I don’t think everyone should self-host. This person was certainly in over their head.
Synology likes to pretend that it’s easy, but doing it right in the ways that make it actually superior to something like Google Drive, is not.
It would be nice if everyone could know someone, who does run one.
Why have a NAS per person, when you can have one per family, friend group, or workplace?
Sadly that will lead to some people relying on hardware that WILL fail in ways that means lost data. Tons of small scale users does mean a lot of people who won’t quite know what they should know about how to do it.
I worry about security issues if all my friends use Windows and Android/Apple phones.I’m in the middle of setting up my open source router with all the security features I want, but if they have Google and Facebook on their phones, is that not just as bad as just using Google drive? Other than subscriptions and whatnot.
Skill issue
Selfhosting is the best solution for everything except maybe email. I’m not sure the author of this article actually knows how to use computers.
You can’t expect people to have the skill or money to self host. There need to be alternatives that are simple and uncomplicated.
People are trained to give their data to corporations and subscribe to everything costing them more money over the course of their lives. Selfhosting is simple nowadays particularly with projects like Umbrel out there in the market. If someone is a white collar worker under 40 “complicated” or “time-consuming” aren’t really viable excuses anymore. It’s something else.
Went to buy something yesterday and they asked for my phone number and name to “get points”. I am so fucking tired of it. Had to explain that I’m a privacy weirdo and I don’t do that. The people who work there seem shocked and completely clueless as to why someone would refuse.
Totally agree with everything they said.
Disagree with the implied false dichotomy of NAS or Google Drive. There are other options. Proton drive is great for convenient file sharing.
