Kagi gives money to google?

Totally, but it’s the same company, no? Wouldn’t the issues with the ownership of the browser also pertain to the search engine?

Brave Browser may be a bit problematic.

Yeah, I ended up going with mailbox until I can self host my own stuff.

Wasn’t matrix developed by Amdocs initially? which has ties to the Israeli intelligence infrastructure?

This combined with the collection of metadata would be a redflag for me.

If you’re okay doing a little bit of legwork: Whatbox.ca as a remote service that you can upload (or download torrents) directly to it. I think they’re Canadian but I’m not 100% - just has a lot of good guides to get you up and running.

I’m a fan of Plex, but they are an American company and they continue to enshitify with their policies - I bought a lifetime pass a long time ago because I really enjoyed their music player plexamp.

Jellyfin is the free and open source option, but I don’t think you’ll get some of the nice features like music analysis and a library radio that tries to pull things together in a somewhat comprehensive way.

This is my music solution. If you’re listening at lossless and only have 1000 albums their smallest option is 2tb(€14/mo) server slot which would likely be hosted in NL.

RE: risk tolerance if you’ve got the know how you can set this up on a locally hosted server using Jellyfin and torrent directly to it. Advantage of a seedbox is the transfer of risk.

What’s your budget and what’s your risk appetite?

what are you goals with having a music streaming service (IE: just to play albums you know or discover new artists)?

curious as to your recommendations?

100% they’re awesome - and you can install your own apps on the instance, probably could use it for hosting a site if wanted.

I set up a foundry instance on mine.

whatbox is awesome and their support team is top notch.

lots you can do with their system.

Well the company’s board has a choice on who represents them and what their values are as a whole.

If the company thought that this person (CEO on this case) doesn’t represent their values effectively they can remove them.

Yeah, long term I do want to self host and I’ve now been doing reading on next cloud.

I used to flash to cyanogenos on a galaxy2 back in the day and I’m looking at different ROMs to try out now (suggestions welcome).

That being said, I’m new to Linux and haven’t done much home server stuff, but am motivated to learn more.

XD The HOAs are out to get folx

Totally fair point there.

I do want to move to a more secure OS for my mobile device, and I’m just in the babysteps of understanding the wide world of the Linux ecosystem.

I am genuinely curious about other sources - I tried to do digging on some but couldn’t verify all the claims. No rush, get some rest and whenever you get a chance I’d love to read / learn more.

I mean I couldn’t find a lot of the other things but I do know the climate activist one is verifiable.

I found this article that goes more in depth with cooperation with other lawn enforcement agencies.

It seems murena has all in looking for with the exception of supporting custom domain names (unless you self host). The workspace aspect is important to me as I do a lot of collaborative work that is much easier with shared access to a spreadsheet.

Yeah, been strongly considering that recently as well but I have a lot to learn.

I really want to have a custom domain, murena seems to have everything that I’m looking for, if I wanted to have a custom domain still I’d have to self host.

I’ve heard that self hosting can lead to a bunch of email getting snagged in spam filters. In regards to self-hostijg I’m definitly in the unconscious ignorance (I don’t know what I don’t know) phase of it.

Yeah - mostly was the hope of this post to see what others you put up.

I had looked at tuta but I’m looking to be able to move my digital workspace (email, calendar, storage, docs, etc) over.

And at least with android devices you have the choice to move to a different OS and opt into more FOSS alternatives