Open or libre office, NAPS2, local send, proton, helpwire, inkscape, firefox with addons, and a local server if they need a lot of “cloud” storage, which people think they need more of than they do.
Seriously, the rehab was convinced they needed several TB to store their records, when every invoice and exam note they had for the ~12 years they’d been digital amounted to about 8GB, ignoring the fact that they only needed to hold on to records for 7 years, or 10 for Medicare, which wasn’t terribly common.
The optical that needed access to very large (16k) retinal photos, really only needed access from 2 locations, so a couple of local servers on automatic backup with a UPS powering the routers meant unless power went out in the whole state, the images and documents were always accessible somewhere.
The grant service needed encrypted emails and wanted personalized URLs, so proton business worked for them and came with storage. Not free, but that was their choice.
For some reason most businesses I’ve worked with seem to think running everything on laptops or all in one computers is the way to go, and get frustrated when everything inevitably gets slow as shit.
So I switch them to mini PCs running my scrubbed ultra light windows image mounted to the back of monitors, and now they can replace parts when necessary, and I can gut the old computers for harddrives for a local server. The HDDs might be crap, but 20 of them make for a hell of a backup RAID.
Helpwire as a hidden startup app allows access from anywhere for files, and I can run tech support from anywhere if necessary.
I think they meant the FOSS alternatives
Open or libre office, NAPS2, local send, proton, helpwire, inkscape, firefox with addons, and a local server if they need a lot of “cloud” storage, which people think they need more of than they do.
Seriously, the rehab was convinced they needed several TB to store their records, when every invoice and exam note they had for the ~12 years they’d been digital amounted to about 8GB, ignoring the fact that they only needed to hold on to records for 7 years, or 10 for Medicare, which wasn’t terribly common.
The optical that needed access to very large (16k) retinal photos, really only needed access from 2 locations, so a couple of local servers on automatic backup with a UPS powering the routers meant unless power went out in the whole state, the images and documents were always accessible somewhere.
The grant service needed encrypted emails and wanted personalized URLs, so proton business worked for them and came with storage. Not free, but that was their choice.
For some reason most businesses I’ve worked with seem to think running everything on laptops or all in one computers is the way to go, and get frustrated when everything inevitably gets slow as shit.
So I switch them to mini PCs running my scrubbed ultra light windows image mounted to the back of monitors, and now they can replace parts when necessary, and I can gut the old computers for harddrives for a local server. The HDDs might be crap, but 20 of them make for a hell of a backup RAID.
Helpwire as a hidden startup app allows access from anywhere for files, and I can run tech support from anywhere if necessary.
Thanks for the list. Hadn’t seen Helpwire before.
Maybe someone wants to store their Linux isos to share around work 😂