#koofr — Public Fediverse posts
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Auf der Suche nach einem besonders günstigen, GDRPO-konformen und in der EU gehosteten #Cloud-Anbieter hat mir ein Chatbot das in #Slowenien entwickelte und gehostete #KOOFR emfpohlen. Eine eine schlanke und vertrauenswürdige #Cloud wie man sie sich wünscht. Die #Vault-Funktion mit offenem Quellcode und Client-Side Encryption, die nicht nur per UI, sondern auch mit dem Kommandozeilentool #rclone angprechbar ist, ist wirklich smart. Ich bedauere schon fast, dass ich diese Cloud nur für einen Use Case brauche, der sich eigentlich nicht damit verträgt, dass ich in derselben Cloud auch alles andere speichere. Vermutlich werde ich für diesen Use Case bald weiterziehen müssen und dafür meine Hauptaktivität auf Koofr verlagern :smile:.
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**2025 – my steps towards digital sovereignty**TL;DR
I fell for a strange pattern of techy computer users to describe / brag about reducing their dependance of IT services owned by US-based tech giants and other companies that embraced enshittification principles.
I didn’t invented nothing new, I just made some small steps towards better control of my data and IT equipment.
IT usage is very political imho. With the recent imperialistic developments and sharp drop in human rights in US, I feel uneasy about using their platforms (Microsoft, Google, social media). This is one of the reasons I’m trying to move away from them and towards FOSS & non-enshittified companies. The other reason is curiosity for exploring new things.
But even selecting FOSS/sustainable IT alternatives is not trivial. They usually lack polished UI, and … ugh, … sometimes there is quite some drama associated with them (e. g. main developer adopts techbro mentality).
OS
As I wrote extensively, I transitioned from Windows to Linux Mint as a daily driver in March 2025.
It’s pretty boring – Mint works, it didn’t crash beyond repair (yet), I don’t think about it anymore.
Now is Dec. and I still haven’t booted to Windows partition. It’s time to delete it and dedicate space for something else.
Browser
Firefox, but looking for alternatives. Mozilla is not my favourite company anymore because of their efforts to stick genAI into the browser and dismissing the community. Yes, I still wear their t-shirt from 2004 and probably will until it disintegrates.
Office
I cancelled to M356 subscriptions for my company and left only 1 license for special cases (spreadsheets with macros for reporting to EU and similar).
Firstly I used OpenOffice in 2003-2006 when I wrote my dissertation and MsWord started to crash after 100 pages. At that time, OpenOffice saved a lot of time, because it handled formulas and references really well. Then I stopped using it until last year. Now it’s my daily driver (Libre Office) again alongside Google Docs (yeah, I know).
I made a promise that all documents that I send out to other people will be in .odt format. In last several months I received in total 0 complaints. Even people with MSOffice can open it and probably they don’t even notice the change of the format.
I especially like (not so well known): Libre Draw for editing PDFs, Libre Write for creating ePUBs.
I also installed NextCloud and it’s NextCloud Office on my selfhosted Yuno, but I haven’t used it much yet. It looks promising, but more complex in comparison with Google Docs.
Email
I bought Tuta subscription and connected it with my domain. I’m using Linux desktop app, mobile app alongside Gmail.
I haven’t transitioned from GMail yet. I gave my new email address only to some specific people and I’m trying to keep it away from various online subsctiptions. I still use GMail, where all the junk goes.
Probably I will keep using GMail as a throw away email account and Tuta for things I care about – such as communication with state institutions, health institutions, friends.
I’m still trying to get used to Tuta UI.
I could even recreate my workflow from GMail to Tuta: Starred emails. In GMail, I star emails that need my further attention. In Tuta, I use labels for the same purpose. I created a new label ‘todo’ which I can apply to the email. It needs some more clicks than starring emails in GMail, which is not optimal, but it’s good enough.
Calendar
I still don’t know how to transfer my calendar from Google Calendar to something else, e. g. Tuta Calendar. I use Google Calendar with 10+ calendars, intervowen with my family’s calendars. Will try to figure it out in 2026.
Cloud storage
This one is the most difficult one.
But I started to ween off Google Drive, which I use from its beginnings. Until now I haven’t found a good replacement, especially for Google Docs.
Lately I bought a lifetime Koofr subscription for 1 TB. I’m using it as a (3rd) backup for all of my family’s photos and videos. It backups my NAS via WebDAV and my desktop via rclone. I also sync my media from the phone to Koofr. Maybe I’ll even use it instead Google Photos. Will see – but at the first glance it doesn’t miss much – maybe albums and search by photo description.
Koofr looks promising and most importantly, it’s based in EU.
https://blog.rozman.info/2025-my-steps-towards-digital-sovereignty/ #digitalSovereignty #FOSS #koofr #libreoffice #yearReview -
I went with Koofr, in case anyone's looking to do the same. Generally a good experience, with helpful support. Slightly odd approach, and no file history, just un-delete, but I'm mostly using it as a destination file store for Kopia backups, so it's not a deal breaker for me.