For the self-hosters among us:

calibre-web-automated and grimmory are two examples of self-hosted ebook management platforms that integrate with the Kobo ereader very nicely.

I’m sure there are other FOSS solutions as well out there, whom integrate with the Kobo ereader.

Honestly, I just don’t try to do anything like this at all. I don’t want to be a missionary for privacy rights, and if people decide to upload their entire life to Google’s servers, then I just shrug my shoulders and move on, because I don’t really care what others do lol.

It seems that while this update once again contains lots of (unncessary) AI bullshit, it also has some other positive changes, such as :

• More End-To-End encrypted functionality
• Improved file upload (apparently 6x as fast)
• Better performance
• Converting documents
• Native desktop client UI (hopefully the new appImage does work for Linux, because it does not work right now.
• Improved AppAPI for other developers to develop plugins / apps / extensions in different programming languages
• Added pronouns to account profile
• Right-To-Left text for the Arabic users (and whoever uses RTL instead of LTR)
• PGP/MIME support for Nextcloud Mail
• Chunked file upload on desktop app
• Improved OpenID Connect API

Overall, I am still disappointed by the direction towards AI that Nextcloud has taken, but I suspect that it makes them more money. Also, apparently large organizations / enterprises who pay Nextcloud GmbH for support, are also allowed to influence the roadmap of the software, which probably has something to do with jumping on the AI bandwagon.

However, despite this new direction, Nextcloud still does the job for me: Easy file syncing, with document collaboration, calendar, contacts and basically act as a whole replacement for Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace / whatever with little to no problems.

There’s Ryot.

Besides that, there’s also Movary, which has contributions from yours truly, but it only supports tracking movies at the moment. I’m planning on adding TV show support later, probably after the first stable 1.0 has released (In my mind it’ll probably be major release 2.0 or 3.0). The main dev and I don’t have much time these days, so it might take a while…

I’ve been degoogled for a little bit over a year now and here’s what I use (disclaimer: I own a NAS / homserver, so I got a little bit more options than most people would).

• Android OS: /e/OS
• Browser: Firefox and Bromite
• Maps: Organic Maps
• Play Store: F-Droid (droidify client in my case) and App Lounge.
• YouTube: Libretube (privacy-friendly YouTube client)
• Translation: DeepL
• Movies, TV Shows, Music: self-hosted Jellyfin
• Automatic backup of my images and videos: self-hosted Immich
• VPN server: self-hosted Wireguard server
• Document management: self-hosted Nextcloud Office + LibreOffice on my PC
• E-Mail service: ProtonMail (self-hosting this is a pain in the ass, so I’ll just leave it to experts)
• Search engine: DuckDuckGo

Check out !selfhosted@lemmy.world for tons of stuff on self-hosting services and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ for a lot of other good alternatives.