remember Cambridge Analytics? no one else seems to…

I never said i was on the right

setting up a multi platform, secure, free and well built messaging platform that can be adapted to use decentralised networks like LoRa? easy

Getting your friends and family to use it? literally impossible

I appreciate your rant and think your username is very apt.

meanwhile I have mates telling me that googles SSO is the best thing since sliced bread.

well what’s the name for people who don’t think there is a doomsday coming but feel like its not a bad idea to keep a tanks worth of petrol some canned food and a few blocks of water in the garage? I don’t think the internet is going to stop anytime soon either but if it did I’d be able to access Wikipedia, watch a few movies and my security cameras and smart home would still work.

Either you are splitting hairs or do not understand how precarious our way of life is.

Running out of food, water or fuel is not some hypothetical future bad thing. It happens all around the world, sometimes even in western countries.

In Australia we had a fire at one of the gas processing plants in the 90’s and the whole state was without gas (actual Liquid natural gas, for cooking and heating) for almost a month, back then literally everything was run on gas. hot water, ducted heating, ovens, many cars because it was so cheap and plentiful). It seems ridiculous considering we are one of the biggest producers in the world.

You think you are tacking ‘real’ issues with your servers, but to the average user you seem just as crazy as a guy with a basement full of beans and piss jugs, screaming about the government is watching us constantly.

But now we know that they are watching, and pushing people towards specific ideas using social media and many other things we though were just crazy talk.

I’d have a bit more sympathy for the preppers if I was you.

Even if I didn’t run my own DNS, the cache on the local devices would have been enough to let me access things like plex or nextcloud. Or just type the local ip in directly

why do people buy these things!?!?!

depends what the bad thing is in your opinion, i guess.

If you mean “losing any semblance of control over the things we need survive (digitally)” then I’d say its the same a prepping.

You can quite comfortably exist in the digital space and access everything you need via others if you want.

Just like you can exist in the real world, using fuel, food, power and other goods and services, supplied by others.

Both scenarios work well right up until they don’t.

why? what if they want more money and decide to make it go subscription based? do you and the shareholders want to risk people just…unplugging them and continuing to use them? the mere idea made me drop my monocle .

Sucks to suck, I guess

Really? Anything? Do you care what they had for breakfast? Or if they went to the dentist? Would it matter if their partner had a hip replacement?.

I think it was a slow news day wherever the author works.

I mean this just seems like a strap at this point. If your happy with an industrial look and want a low price point can I recommend some rope?