Duckduckgo for search. Try reddit answers as well. I would recommend brave as a browser now that firefox is bulky and outdated.
For most of the other things, explore nextcloud. A self hosted Nextcloud should have you covered for storage/file sharing, email, notes, password manager, meetings, photos (a bit clunkly), calendar and much more. Lots of plugins too. It's open sourced and free, though there are paid nextcloud hosting services as well. Hostinger has an out of the box nextcloud install that you can set up on a domain/subdomain. Add a libreoffice or onlyoffice integration to nextcloud, and office suite is also sorted, though I haven't found a decent alternative for Google docs/sheets yet. I find libreoffice too laggy and slow. Nextcloud has mobile apps and multiple plugins, lots under dev. I've had a better experience with their apps than actually accessing the install directly which at times goes into an infinite loading loop. Nextcloud file storage, like Google drive, also natively integrates with Ubuntu file manager. Mostly using it for file storage and sharing across devices (as an alternative to dropbox). On Wed, 30 Jul, 2025, 4:29 am Tim Bray via Silklist, < [email protected]> wrote: > Funny you should ask that. Just posted > https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/29/DeGoogling > > Lots of intelligent sounding suggestions in the comments and especially on > Mastodon, see https://cosocial.ca/@timbray > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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