I use it to share docs with other people. That way, I do not use the "(don't) be evil" US company.But I do not keep my personal documents on it because there is no sync with offline storage.
It is possible to connect the AI assistant to other models, but not Junie. There are a few issues requesting the integration of Codestral in the Jetbrains issue tracker (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBAI-16480/Mistral-AI-integration), but with no success yet. You can go upvote it if you have a Jetbrains account.
If you used Github as a simple remote repository and nothing around (CI, issues, ...), you can also setup a simple bare git repository on a server to use a your remote and a backup. There is nothing special to do once you can log with SSH into the server.
I very recently did that for my personal projects.
I use it to share docs with other people. That way, I do not use the "(don't) be evil" US company.But I do not keep my personal documents on it because there is no sync with offline storage.