Even if you never went online, heaps of data about you is collected and sold.

• ALPRs collect and sell your car’s movement and location data.
• Stores you shop at collect identity data and share your purchases and consumer behaviors, even when you pay cash.
• Banks and financial institutions share information about your assets, financial holdings, purchases, and electronic transactions.
• Governments mandate that all sorts of information about you is public.

And if you are online, the “be as anonymous as you can and don’t share your personal data over the internet.” statement makes it sound easy, which is far from true. It’s a constant game of whack-a-mole where one needs incredibly disciplined to compartmentalize and segregate login sessions across browsers and devices. If one isn’t technically skilled and constantly vigilant, it’s a losing battle. That’s why awareness and campaigns that support privacy focused regulation are important.

The rule of law in the USA doesn’t mean much any more.

Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we’ve reached a point of fascism we can’t turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.

It’d be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.

lol @ the thunbnail… GMO corn is getting crazy.

It’s probably just brazen, illegal manipulation of Kenvue stock price. They say things for effect, not because they believe any of their own nonsense.

Yeah. I’ve heard good things about Ente. For me, I was at a storage tier where i was over 100gb of docs & photos, and between 1 & 2TB when you include video. Most hosted services get kinda pricey at those storage tiers.

I didn’t really set out to self host, but since in needed to solve for docs, photos, and videos, I just went with self hosting. I’m happy with it, just acknowledging that it’s not for everyone

His do you eat a whale? One bite at a time.

I was the same as you. Got Gmail way back when. I’ve left pretty much all google services at this point except YouTube.

For me, mail and cal were the easiest things to switch switched to mailbox.org. I tried Proton first, and i like using Proton quite a bit, but opted for Mailbox because my my wife (who wants to keep Gmail for personal) can get IMAP for mailbox and her remaining google in a single app. Proton is more polished, but Mailbox suited our need better. Tuta is good too.

Switching away from Google docs and Photos was harder. I used google docs extensively, and it was harder to find a good replacement. Same for photos which used since it was Picasa. I opted for self hosted for those (Paperless-ngx, nextcloud, and immich). I like paperless a lot. Its tons better than google drive for static docs. Immich is pretty promising, and has some great tools. But you do sacrifice a bit of polish and simplicity. Still worth it for me.

Price of self hosting is probably a wash compared to paid storage as long as you ignore the cost of your labor to learn and set it all up.

It’s just Dodger’s fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

And Microsoft. Ain’t nobody buying SharePoint because it’s good.

It’d kinda be fun if one day the son of Kennedy’s assassin gets the job of changing Trump’s diapers.

Probably not. Disney has previously announced that they’re gonna stop reporting subscriber numbers in 10Ks and annual reports.

yeah, after reading your comment, I realize I meant something slightly different than I wrote. So to clarify… a lot of people are on-board with the “policies” he’s pursuing since the policy is always some variation of “crime with impunity” for people on his side. There are hordes of people who want to get in on that. Nevertheless, they don’t like him, don’t trust him, don’t believe anything he says; and they wouldn’t hesitate to stick a knife in his back if a better option emerged.

It’s because nobody but Disney has that data, and they stopped sharing sub numbers because it fucks with stock price too much.

Talkin out their ass seems to be Newsweek’s brand identity these days.

What a dumbfuck; doesn’t realize everybody is against him.

She probably won’t, but of she does, I’m sure they can fuck the guy’s life up bat without any legal basis whatsoever. It’s not like the law matters to them any more.

If they follow the script, they’ll blame Antifa, Obama, and trans people.

You’re right… it does go a lot deeper. If you’re in the USA, your local community college might have classes. Consider starting with some formal instruction. The problem with YouTube is that you (the one lacking knowledge) has to decide whether the YouTuber knows what they’re doing. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube, but there’s plenty of wrong and unsafe stuff too.

Also, avoid super cheap tools for the tools that interface with screws, nuts, and bolts, like wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, hex and torx drivers. Cheap tools make it wasier to damage screw heads and bolts.

Training courses and apprenticeships; there are a lot of specialized tools, techniques, and diagnostic procedures that aren’t obvious. Self guided usually results in doing a lot of things the wrong way.

100%

Asking you to provide evidence in support of a position they’d never consider distracts you and keeps you busy doing worthless things.

I don’t use the phone part of my smartphone much, so thie idea of a dumbphone has no real appeal for me.