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OP specifically mentioned not wanting claws.

I recently went through the process of separating from Google as much as possible here.

As others have said, Nextcloud or Radical or Baikal are all good calendar server options to self-host

On your Android phone, DAVx5 for syncing CalDAV and CardDAV (which the servers listed above use), ICSx5 for any public Google calendars you want to subscribe to (you can almost always get an ICS calendar file link for those), and Etar to interact with said calendars on your phone.

On your computer, Thunderbird is the easiest way to go. There is also the web interface for whatever server you decide to host. There are other options, too. On Linux, I use pimsync + khal/khard.

Caveats:

• In Etar, khal, AND the Nextcloud web UI, I have had lots of trouble with being able to apply updates to calendar events, like a new ICS file containing an updated time or place. The only calendar app I've found that handles this correctly is Thunderbird on the desktop.
• Doing things this way separates your email account from your calendar account, which can create some annoyances. Every mainstream mail service these days tightly couples itself with a calendar. For instance, to send invitations for a calendar event that I create on Nextcloud, I also have my email account linked to Nextcloud. You can't do this if you have Proton or Tuta because of their encryption. When I had Proton, I used Postmark to have a send-only email account from Nextcloud to send out invitations.
• If you want to subscribe to PRIVATE Google calendars (my partner still has Google, so I need to do this), you need to sync a Google account with each device you want to subscribe to that calendar on. There is no way to add it to one of these self-hosted servers. The way that I handle this is by making a throwaway Google account that is only for subscribing to calendars, syncing that to my phone with DAVx5, and while I could sync to Thunderbird on my computer, I pretty much only use Thunderbird when I need to update a calendar event. So, in my case, I use pimsync. To sync a Google account to pimsync, you need to create a fake "app" using a Google account on the Google Cloud Platform, add the CalDAV API and generate credentials, add your calendar sync account to the allowed testing users, and then add the generated credentials to pimsync. It sucks.
• As usual, you can't sync any Microsoft calendars with anything other than Outlook.

Not self hosted necessarily, but TagStudio is an interesting project worth keeping an eye on https://docs.tagstud.io/

Core technology advantages: integrating seven major features into one

Compared with existing interface technologies, GPMI has seven core advantages: bidirectional multi-stream, bidirectional control, high-power power supply, ecological compatibility, ultra-fast transmission, fast wake-up and full-chain security, leading the comprehensive upgrade of audio and video technology.

https://www-hisilicon-com.translate.goog/cn/White-Paper-Technical-Guide/white-paper/gpmi-innovation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

"full-chain security"? Sounds like another proprietary tool for DRM. Hard pass. Fuck HDMI, too.

if you decouple your syncing tools from your browser, you'll be a lot less likely to be locked into a browser you don't like in the future.

same here

It sounds like what they ultimately want is one place to look at both read-it-later stuff and starred RSS articles. My read is that they are proposing one way to do it, but ultimately it's not super workable that way. There are no clients I know of that are both RSS clients and read-it-later clients (using pocket, wallabag, or anything else).

If OP wants one place to see both, their best bet is to find a read-it-later server that can generate RSS feeds, subscribe to those, and now everything is RSS and behaves the same. Wallabag is a great option for that and is self-hostable.

This is exactly what I do and it works great.

http://wallabag.it/ can publish your read-it-laters to RSS

"Wait, so we have all the technology we need to stop climate change, but we have to sacrifice some profits to do so?

Well, since it's impossible to stop climate change with current technology, I guess we just have to dump chemicals into the atmosphere and hope for the best."

I recently switched from Proton to Fastmail...then I found out it seems like they have done union busting in the past. I already paid for it, and they are certainly the lesser evil, but I think I'm gonna get a lifetime ~~mxmail~~ mxroute account during black friday this year.

I use the FUTO keyboard. The "AI" features that it includes are local-only predictive text and voice-to-text (both are very good, in my experience). It's not open source, and neither is GrayJay (another FUTO project), which is a yellow flag, at minimum.

At the same time, they do fund open source projects, most notably Immich, which is a fantastic Google Photos alternative. I'm personally okay with using their stuff, and tentatively happy with them as an organization, but I'm keeping a watchful eye on their behavior.

ZFS all the things. On my workstations, I wipe / on every boot except for the files that I specify, and I backup /home to my NAS on ZFS and I backup my NAS snapshots to Backblaze.