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40 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin 29 Dec 2024 \ on: Is there any encrypted cloud storage that we can pay with Bitcoin?⁉️🍊 bitcoin
Instead of paying for such service you better invest / put your money into a personal NAS (Qnap or Synology) and use that one for your own "cloud", at home or wherever you want to host it.
You can access it from anywhere you want with restricted access only for you or your family.
YOUR sever = YOUR data.
I disagree with this 'cloud' bullshit.
Why do people even need clouds in the first place?
Just use Syncthing app to sync the files between your phone and laptop, it's such a simple and elegant solution.
When i'm outside, my phone has all my files—and when i'm inside, my laptop also has all my files. Everything is synced.
Cloud solutions (like Proton Drive) are only really useful for emergency backups.
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Do you know what is a NAS ?
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Syncthing is nice if you got a spare tablet or old phone too. Your own storage so maximum sovereignty
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Interesting, never heard of the Syncthing app. I assume I could have a folder on my laptop, and synch it (or just certain files) to my phone?
It looks like the developer is not going to do android releases anymore, he's unhappy with Google Play.
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Hopefully he can use fdroid.
Android devices are nice, as long as all the google stuff is removed. GrapheneOS ftw
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There's a new fork
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YOUR sever = YOUR data.
Thank you very much. I guess that is the way to go. "Have my own server or my own cloud" For now my knowledge and resources are limited, so I must opt for a less technical solution that will solve the need in the short term.
Thanks anyway for your wisdom.
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I guess that is the way to go
No. Save your sats. You don't need to pay for cloud providers or personal NAS hardware.
Save your sats! They are precious.
Read my comment above—Just use Syncthing.
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No, you are wrong, some people need more than just few folders between a dummy laptop and a mobile.
Also sometimes is needed to share with other people or family multiple folders.
What you are talking is just for few images and shit.
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sometimes is needed to share with other people
If you need to share files with other people (outside your close family), sure... that makes sense.
But the OP mentioned his wife, they are living together(i assume), Syncthing would work just fine for them. Their photos would always be synced when they are at home (on the same network).
What you are talking is just for few images and shit.
I've got 350 GB of files synced between my phone and laptop, via Syncthing. Both of them have 512 GB of total disk.
Clouds are a noobie trap. Personal NAS only makes sense if you've got huge amounts of GB files. For most people(normies) Syncthing is enough.
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Is not about the amount of GB...
There are many ways to use a shared NAS and people need various type of access, but seems that you do not understand that or never worked in such environment.
ofc using a bullshit hosted cloud it doesn't make sense, but a home NAS is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. Is not only about sharing some dummy files.
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I'm focusing on the OP simple use case:
storing some information and sharing photos with his wife.He didn't mention anything else.
Syncthing is the easiest most elegant solution for him and is wife imho.
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@DarthCoin @Skipper Many thanks to both of you for this great debate full of good information that invites me to continue discovering more things that I still don't know about.
I will investigate more about both solutions to find a solution to my family's need.
I understand that it is good to have powerful storage at home and that's it. Sicornizing a laptop and phone is not a bad option, but the option of having encrypted files on the Internet, in this case the cloud, is not ruled out either. So that we can access them from anywhere in the world. Even if we have lost our phone or laptop. With the keys or codes that unlock the information, we can have it again, even if we lost the physical backups (laptop and phone).
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Proton Drive is your best option then. Give it a try with a free account before you comit to a paid plan.
If you plan for a long term and a lot of personal data, a personal NAS is the way to go.
If you want to use this "sharing" data only sporadically, with few people, then are many services for file sharing, even free, for example:
You can play both ways, depending what do you want share and how.
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