If you are shopping for a self-hosted cloud platform, two names come up immediately: Nextcloud and ownCloud. Both are open-source, both let you take back control of your files from Google Drive and Dropbox, and both started from the same codebase. But despite their shared origins, they have diverged significantly in philosophy, features, and target […]

I have been using Google services for years. Gmail for email, Drive for files, Photos for pictures — it’s convenient, I’ll give them that. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised how much I was giving away. My data on their servers, their algorithms scanning my content, and the constant worry […]