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Hetzner has Nextcloud in their your-storageshare.de offer. It's a hosted instance which you are admin of. About 5 Euros a month for 1 TB of storage for the smallest tier. This was the way I chose after years of self hosting. Your-storageshare is awesome and I don't get tired of recommending it. Maybe I should ask for a commission at some point...

In a way yes, we are running from company to company. For myself I accepted a few compromises along the way because I don't have the time and energy to do everything myself. So this is where I am at.

Hosting email yourself is a nightmare and is getting basically impossible more and more (see here). So I accepted my fate and looked for a solution that fits my needs.

For cloud storage I used to self host Nextcloud and / or Syncthing for years. While it was fun in the beginning I loathed it at the end. Even with good hardware and Docker and 25 years of experience there was always something that stopped to work after a while - especially with Nextcloud. For Syncthing (which I really like) there is no real client for iOS (wife's phone). Also exposing anything to the internet can turn into a nightmare pretty quickly. But my work blocks my VPN... You see what I mean? There certainly are solutions for all that but I was tired of looking.

Hetzner is a large German hoster with a quite good reputation. They need to follow GDPR regulations and because they provide closely monitored solutions for my work I know they do as much as possible. The Nextcloud instance is super reliable ever since I started.

I use Nextcloud tools for encryption at rest which is enough for me. They even let you perform cli commands (a few from a web UI, other through support mail). Support is fast and well informed.

It is certainly not for everyone! But for my scenario it is the currently best compromise.

If you are on Spotify try this Cozy Christmas Jazz playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWU0r6G8OGirN

I love it!

If you aren't too tech savvy I would recommend against self hosted services. There are amazing solutions out there but they will cost a few bucks.

For cloud storage I use Hetzner's https://www.your-storageshare.de. It's a hosted Nextcloud with pretty much all the freedom you can get. Currently it costs about 5 Euros per month for 1TB of storage. You can even share it with your family and friends because you can create more users on your instance. While I self hosted Nextcloud and Syncthing in the past this is just way less work.

Your-storageshare replaced Dropbox/Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Contacts and Google Photos for me. That's a pretty huge chunk of the services I use passively all the time. With Nextcloud's encryption enabled and GDPR regulations in place it is IMHO as save as you can get without self hosting.

For mails I am quite happy with https://mailbox.org - it starts at 1 Euro per month but I recommend the 3 Euros tier. It's no Proton Mail but somehow to me it seems more trustworthy. They don't overpromise on features but provide a solid secure service. Most of the time I send unencrypted mails (due to various reasons) but you could use SMIME with it. Since it provides IMAP you could even integrate it with your-storageshare using the Nextcloud Mail app.

Both services support your own domains so if you fancy it you could set up www.IHadTwoCows.com for cloud and mail. Hetzner has you covered for domains too. Not the cheapest but reliable.

For search I use https://startpage.com. It uses Google results but anonymized. I am very happy with it.

And that, kids, is the story of how I banned Google from my digital life. (okay, Maps is still there but all the alternatives where just not good enough with traffic jams in my city)

Schröder auf "rechtschaffend gut" und Britney auf "neutral böse"? Was ist das für eine seltsame Aufstellung?!?

Da gebe ich dir vollkommen Recht! Ich selbst habe all das unter "benachteiligte Kinder" eingerechnet - aber ja, etwas differenzierter betrachtet, stimme ich dir zu.

Im restlichen Artikel ist aber auch erwähnt, dass Bildung in Deutschland einfach viel zu viel vom Elternhaus abhängt.

Das Problem ist das deutsche Bildungssystem, das im 21. Jahrhundert so tut, als wäre es 1950. Als gäbe es keine Kinder, die zu Hause nicht Deutsch sprechen, in Armut aufwachsen oder mit anderen Lernschwierigkeiten kämpfen. Damit verweigert das Bildungssystem benachteiligten Kindern, ihre Talente und Möglichkeiten zu entwickeln [...].

Schreibt die Zeit (Achtung, eventuell Paywall). Besser kann man es fast nicht formulieren.

Die Grasflächen wären schon möglich als "Schlachtfeld". Die müssen nicht geräumt werden. Wir müssen aber halt die Sicherheit der Kinder bestmöglich gewährleisten und das geht mit erlaubten Schneebällen leider nicht zusammen.

Ich glaube mich auch zu erinnern, dass es schon mindestens 10 Jahre lang Gerüchte gibt, dass er Nazis unterstützt.

Vielleicht täusche ich mich, aber gab es da nicht schon ganz lange Gerüchte, dass der Müller Nazis unterstützt? Kann mich da schon gefühlt vor 10 Jahren dran erinnern. Hab selbst lange keine Müller-Produkte mehr deshalb gekauft, es aber irgendwann aus den Augen verloren (wie es halt so ist 🤷‍♂️).

Das ist reiner Versicherungs-/Haftungsmist. Wir Lehrkräfte wollten an unserer Schule ein "Schneeball-Eck", wo das Werfen erlaubt ist. Muss ja keiner hingehen, der es nicht will. Wäre pädagogisch echt eine Erleichterung gewesen. Wegen der Haftungsfrage(n) musste der Plan gekippt werden. Find ich bis heute bescheuert.