Building a better web for all of us: hiram.io
Synology NAS. Had it for a few years. Comes with Synology Photos, which is like Google Photos in terms of functionality (but local, of course).
I’ve heard good things about immich too, but haven’t tried it yet.
I’ve tried Ente and that’s also a good solution for how turnkey it is.
Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim
Probably for adding articles to my open source project, idcaboutprivacy
I’ll answer for the 99% of people in my life: Hiram
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I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.
You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.
Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.
It usually answers most of their questions.
Might be overkill (since it’s a Figma alternative), but try Penpot.
I’m waiting for the day someone decides to challenge the behemoth that’s Canva with an open source alternative. That’d be dope.