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I run nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi and I don’t use the other apps, just the file stuff. It seems like the best supported option to me.

My system is not ideal, but I have a lifetime deal with Proton Pass for $1 a month that I hope they never change because if they do, I’m getting off of Proton.

Currently, I have a custom domain that I use with Tuta, but I will most likely switch to a provider that is less secure and more compatible with third-party clients after my year of subscription is up.

I also have a decade plus of email history on Gmail that I need to search through all the time and people still send me emails to my Gmail account.

Ideally, I would have a second custom domain for my Proton Pass email forwarding service, so that I’m not giving spammers my actual domain that I care about.

Also, ideally, I would have a self-hosted email server and client setup where I could see all my email addresses, including an archive of all my Gmail history, in one place, and it would sync changes from clients back to the central server. But I don’t know if that exists.

Data stealing? I thought people are just giving it away.

Although I remember when the fb app was discovered to be spying on other stuff outside of usage within the app, whenever that was.

Why would they flag a human as a bot?

I have been disappointed in tuta myself as well. They seem to be too privacy and security focused at the cost of being hard to use.

I tried Tudor and proton’s free tier, and I couldn’t deal with how they can’t use a normal email client.

On the other hand, I’ve been trying to use Thunderbird with my next cloud calendar and it keeps hanging for me on Ubuntu. So maybe trying to use Thunderbird is a recipe for disaster as well. I don’t know what to do.

That’s a really good point I never thought of.

Is it realistic that he didn’t have any other friends / trusted adults in the community?

As a movie though the suspension of disbelief is pretty good. Phone lines are down, neighbors are on vacation too, …

Get yourself a server with no downvotes. It is the wave of the future.