Intro

With Randy’s interest in privacy from Big Tech growing lately, in this episode he provides a more-detailed list on the tools he’s landed on; Non-Evil hosting solutions, basically.

The Self-hosted Tools

• Synology NAS (Hear of the Operation)
  • Synology Drive with Synology Office enabled.
  • Synology Moments, soon to be Photos.
  • Synology Note Station and the Synology Web Clipper
  • FreshRSS – Great Google Reader alternative.
  • Ghost – Website / Publication. They are pretty awesome, with public company metrics.
  • Open Source CCTC Solution (Anything other than Ring, Nest, etc).
    • Shinobi is one that I’ve been casually reading about.
    • Apparently, Dahua cameras are superior as far as the camera sensors go.
    • For best value for the price, I seemingly can’t avoid recommending Ubiquity/UniFi products. They offer UniFi Protect, and that’s likely what I’ll be going with, but I’ll probably start light to see how one camera performs on my porch. Bottom line, I need to get away from Ring.

The Non Self-hosted Tools

• Social Networks
  • MeWe (They mention “No ads, no spyware, no BS).
  • Parler (when it returns).
  • Mastadon
  • Adobe Spark
  • Conclusion

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