My biggest blind spot currently in privacy is Quickbooks.
I can use Linux and Graphene but all my transactions for all my businesses are on intuit's servers.
How do I fix this?
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There seem to be multiple alternatives to Quickbooks which you can either self-host or run locally, that are free and open-source.
Homebank and the Odoo suite (The Billing app specifically) are a couple of examples. They also run on Linux.
Odoo looks good. Homebank looks a bit basic.
I have also been looking into NinjaInvoice not sure if you have an opinion on that one.
Anyway thanks for the suggestions. 🤙
I'll be honest - Not familiar with Ninjavoice, and it says it's "Free", however it's not open source. When that happens, that's a red flag for me. If something says it's "Free", but the source isn't viewable/open, that means its free users are paying somehow, somewhere.
It's self-hostable which is nice, but it still shares data it seems:
https://invoiceninja.com/self-hosting-privacy-data-control/
Guess it comes down to how comfortable you are with that.
To be clear, I have no problem in paying for software (and I actively donate too), but having source available show confidence in their security and transparency in their work ethics.
Personally, as someone who seeks sovereignty and already self-hosts everything he can with open source software, if I'm self-hosting something, then NO data should leave my network, and the product should continue to work. If I'm running a business, I'd also not be sharing any PII data with the software I use. Telemetry metrics for debugging? Perhaps. But no PII. That's just me though.
I think finance is definitely one area where open-source software needs a big push. Odoo seems to be the best of the bunch in the open source, self-hostable options.