Yeah, why would they post something like this to the community for serious takes about Linux?

This update is what made me setup a recurring donation.

Good luck even finding something not in nixpkgs though

One of my favorite apps actually wasn’t in nixpkgs (don’t worry, I fixed that). But I was pretty surprised to learn that it wasn’t there.

I’d say what it is, but I’d be doxxing myself.

But the claim is that you need to learn nix to install apps that aren’t in the nix repos, which isn’t true.

You can. And then you can even contribute that back upstream and make it available in the repos, but that’s not a requirement if what you need to to get an app to run on your system that isn’t currently packaged for it.

You need to learn a whole programming language to install an AppImage or Flatpak?

Don’t use services that track all your activity down. It should be pretty obvious as to why.

This doesn’t really apply here.

Sure, but if I can dodge one by simply switching email hosts, why not?

How the uptime with Tuta these days? Was hearing some negative reviews about extended outages a while back.

I want to leave Proton, but I fear for the day I need a 2FA code and I can’t get it.

That’s nice. Just exposing your dishonesty. Move along.

I’ll say this.

When I weigh the choice of handing over my personal videos to a company that is explicitly and actively going to use them to:

• train and improve their massive corporate AI tools
• develop their targeted ad platform (which is their real product)
• build a comprehensive profile about me and my family

Or

Putting a NAS at a friends house, or paying a couple bucks a month for some block storage.

I end up preferring the second set of options. It’s fine if you don’t, but don’t pretend you have no idea that your personal videos and information are valuable to Google.

Because, frankly, I don’t think you’re being honest.

Do you really not know how Google’s business model works, or are you playing dumb?

Is money is the only thing about yourself that you ascribe value to?

Nope. The admin of sh.itjust.works lets you use their storage for free. Google does not.

There are things that are free, Youtube is not one of them.

What other platform can I use as cloud storage for video files for free?

None. YouTube included.

And honestly even if it did serve it’s actual purpose, the cumulative power consumption would still be a point of debate.

Yeah, but at that point you’d have to consider it against how much power the traditional banking system uses.

So is the internet.

So can the AI

This just in folks, boycotting Amazon for a week is “no good”. Don’t do it!

That’s it! Let perfect be the enemy of good!