Such a good feeling cancelling my paid tier on Dropbox this week. I’ve been ‘playing’ at self hosting for a few months, and now I’m confident in my infrastructure and processes so I can start turning off some of the cloud things I’ve been paying for.

Dropbox has gone in favor of Syncthing over Tailscale in a hub and spoke arrangement to a VM at home. The main compromise I’ve had to make is on the iOS experience.

The next subscriptions I’ll be cancelling will be Evernote (I have so loved this over the years, but as they’ve added ‘features’ the app experience has degraded to the point where it’s no longer reliable to add notes from my phone). I’m currently trying Obsidian for this , but thinking about a simpler web markdown editor for mobile.

After that, all my Wordpress blogs will be coming home to my VPS, I imagine with some sort of static site generator.

  • reflex
    4•1 year ago

    They’re a solid, sensible company and their free tier is more than enough for the few things I need handy on my phone.

    Care to share some examples of what you use it for? I’m currently using Syncthing to move a password vault and Logseq notes between my comp. and my phone.

    I’m just looking for ideas really.

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      I use it for:

      • documents I use regularly (contract worker so I’m constantly emailing the same things to accounting departments, etc)
      • current contracts / union constitution and bylaws / published standards / some tables of data I regularly reference for work / stuff I have to reference for workers
      • any “current projects” like a photo set for a project, plans and drawings, documents and literature for a vacation, etc.
      • study materials if I’m going for any certifications, so my waiting in line time can be reading up instead of candy crush or whatever

      Since my mobile is all ios and I otherwise use syncthing, I use sync.com for cloud storage basically for anything that I’ll want without having to get a laptop out.

      I use Bitwarden for passwords and authy for 2fa so that’s all fine.

      This also means I can zero a device and have access to this stuff once I load an app back up on the other side of a border, when that’s a necessary step. Not possible with syncthing.