Can you elaborate? I'm interested in a similar solution. I dumped Dropbox years ago in favor of Pcloud.
Okay. I bought an RPi-based widget called an Antsle a while back, which is able to "masquerade" as other systems it runs virtually.
This is an Antsle Nano.
One of the virtualized systems I'm running on it is a basic Debian webserver, with NextCloud installed onto it.
You could do your own NextCloud install if you had a Linux system handy. I run the NextCloud apps on the MacOS desktop and on my iPad to integrate everything.
Thanks. I am on their invite list. In the meantime, I might just try a retired Intel NUC.
@mcfate π Huzzah! Success on a couple fronts: ingenuity and defeating an obnoxious app. Well done, and thanks for sharing the winning tip with others here!
I moved 5 gigabytes of files off DropBox into my personal NextCloud in about ten minutes. I've successfully transferred to epub files from the NextCloud onto my iPad, so it's doing what I need it to.
@MLClark
I was very pleased to get a local cloud server running on a device the size of a deck of cards, so DropBox can FINALLY stop annoying me about how they wish I'd pay them so they can stop being so anxious about the possibility of my running out of free space.
I'm STILL pleased about this.