Switched to ownCloud today!

I’m delighted to report that I finally have made the switch to ownCloud today, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

Setting it up on my Debian box (running version 7.4 “Wheezy”) was as easy as following the simple instructions from this useful tutorial at debiantutorials.com:

How to install ownCloud on wheezy

I then logged into ownCloud as the admin user, immediately changed the password, and created a new user for my main account. I then set up the ownCloud Windows client which created the directory ownCloud on my computer.

After than I just moved everything from my Dropbox folder to my new ownCloud folder and that was that.

Not sure if I want to migrate my calendar from Davical running on the Debian server over to ownCloud. Davical is actually a really excellent piece of software. Too bad its not integrated into ownCloud. That would be amazing.

In the future, anyone should be able to just buy one box at the store – a combination broadband modem + wireless router + ownCloud + mail + NAS + web server. You connect the box to your broadband connection, login, and a wizard sets everythng up for you. At that point you are 100% free except for the money you pay for your broadband connection. You own all your e-mail. You control your web server and can do with it as you please, including using Open Source social networking software if you are so inclined. All your files are yours.

Not only is all this data yours, no one else in the world even has a right to know what your data is or whether it exists. It is strictly yours and strictly personal.

Except the fact that we live in America which is satanic. The major broadband providers are satanic. So is the government. Despite all the clamoring about “net neutrality”, which should mean you pay for bandwidth and you can use it however you want, the content providers (who are probably all fronts for NSA/CIA) first of all deliberately provide highly assymetrical connections to everyone so that upload bandwidth is severely restricted, and second they explicitly forbid running “servers” on “consumer” lines. They are forcing people to pay exhorbitant fees to have “business” service to run “servers”. This is satanic bullshit.