An update to storage policies across your Google Account

Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by pishpash on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:26PM (#25298224)

It's high time for somebody to make an appliance running open protocols that behaves like cloud applications but that is owned and hosted at one's home. Maybe it's what NAS is turning into, but open, and more broadly conceived: for email, chat, etc.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by inquirerofsorts on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:20PM (#25298510)

Nextcloud Hub does all of this:

https://nextcloud.com/hub/

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by mehrdadn on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:30PM (#25298256)

I imagine unreliability of home networks just makes this a bad idea for things like email even if you somehow managed to get around all the other obstacles like security/privacy/trust issues (spam, etc.)

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by pishpash on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:18AM (#25299843)

But all of this is separable: storage at home, transport/computing provided by Google. So security and trust verification can come from Google (or any other provider) but emails stay home. Or photo processing provided by Google, but photos stay home. That would however relegate them to a pipe and service provider and possibly force them into openly competing, so they would never do that. Owning your data for the lock-in is the point.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by msh on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:55AM (#25301020)

Thats what the helm appliance tries to do: https://www.thehelm.com/

If you search HN there is a quite interesting thread on it.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by pnutjam on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:44PM (#25298331)

https://clarkconnect.com/

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