Yes, I’m definitely trying to understand the “why” of what it is that I am doing. I’m just going to be using YUNO as a starting point.

Yeah, I thought I understood also. Clearly, someone is mistaken though, I’m just not sure if it’s me or the OP which is disorienting.

Thanks for the advice. Currently, I have a backup of all of my important data on a high capacity HDD that is completely disconnected from any devices. There is no real way to automate backups with that setup, but it’s what I am working with at the moment.

This is basically a war crime.

I’m in this image and I don’t like it.

Indeed, I do agree but I’ve never done anything close to this magnitude so it is kind of intimidating for me. It is a learning process though!

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I don’t want to replace email, per se. More so, the services that come along with it. Stuff like photo storage and sync, notes and reminder sync, calendar sync, and a lot of the hundreds of other small things that I have just been leaving up to Google that would cause a huge problem for me if I lost access.

I have the password situation handled with KeePassXC on my PCs and KeePassDX on my phone, but that’s about as far as I have come as of yet.

Yeah, it was dumb. I should have thought about it long before what occured, but I didn’t. But, in the end, I definitely learned my lesson.

That’s the only thing that I do have taken care of! I basically immediately grabbed them out of Chrome and put them in KeePassXC on my PCs and KeePassDX for my Android.

Baby steps!

I was unaware that those Community Helper Scripts existed! They should definitely be helpful at some point down the road!

In my neighborhood, there are several of these “little free libraries” in people’s yards. I’ve always thought that it was a very cool idea!

Yeah. I guess that is true. The part about not being able to point me in the right direction. I have a shaky grasp of several network protocols and things of that nature. Nothing deeper than surface level at this point.

Thank you for the advice! After I get a firm grasp of the concepts at hand, I will look into NextCloud and Immich.

I’m not very familiar at all with Linux. I have used a few distros here and there where the majority of the work is done in a GUI. The CLI intimidates me, hahaha. I began exploring distros through WSL a little while back. I still haven’t “dove in” yet though.

As far as the networking terms that you used, I have at least a slight grasp on all of that and what the different network “components” do, but I do not yet know how to implement or configure most of the things that you mentioned.

I will certainly look into that. I’ve never heard of YUNOhost but I’m going to give it a look soon!

It’s a great idea to run it in a VM first, because I’m bound to make mistakes along the way. Awesome advice! I’m definitely going to be referencing your comment throughout the process! Saved!

In the time since this happened, I have set up KeePassXC on all of my PCs as well as KeePassDX on my phone, and taken all of my passwords 100% out of Chrome.

I’ll absolutely look into SyncThing! I’ve heard of it many times, I just haven’t used it myself yet.

Thanks for the info!

Thanks, I will certainly look into this after I get some sort of basic understanding of the concepts at play.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I will definitely begin studying the document tomorrow!