JubilantJaguar

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JubilantJaguar ,

Seafile is not FOSS, as I understand it. But I tried it anyway, since I also found Nextcloud bloated.

In the end I went back to the purest strategy of all: peer-to-peer. My files are synced between devices over the local network using ssh, rsync and unison and never touch an internet server.

JubilantJaguar ,

Ideally, you don't go anywhere. You talk to those assholes and degenerates and try to understand them a bit better and maybe even try to make friends with them (yes, yes, crazy idea). They are your fellow citizens, after all.

From over here in Europe, questions like this really make America look screwed. Let's hope it's not.

JubilantJaguar ,

Babbel. Was not paid to say this.

JubilantJaguar ,

That’s perfectly fine. Don’t worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they’ll stick.

This is exactly what I tell people who ask OP's question. Technology made this a feasible approach. In the era of paper dictionaries it was a different story.

JubilantJaguar ,

They recognize that one person's rights can infringe another's. That's all.

Anti-web discrimination by banks and online services - is this even legal?

Banks, email providers, booking sites, e-commerce, basically anything where money is involved, it's always the same experience. If you use the Android or iOS app, you stayed signed in indefinitely. If you use a web browser, you get signed out and asked to re-authenticate constantly - and often you have to do it painfully using a...

JubilantJaguar OP ,

The security hole here seems to be remote control of devices, more than the nature of the software used.

JubilantJaguar OP ,

Your points are of course valid but this is getting slightly offtopic.

If your bank really spies on you through its app, I would change bank

What would be nice would be not to have to use a proprietary app on a closed-source software stack in the first place, given that it clearly represents a privacy compromise. And that is possible: almost no bank makes it obligatory. But they would obviously love to. If only to fire their web team and save some money.

And this is not just about banks. Every online service is trying to force us onto the closed platforms of Google and Apple, when an open-standards software platform exists and is perfectly workable. Seems there might be a battle worth fighting here. Nobody much seems to agree. Fair enough.

Just let your password manager fill up the login everytime, it’s not hard.

IME that hardly works any more, as mentioned.

JubilantJaguar ,

Completely agree in substance and spirit, but not on this framing of everything as about ownership. Personally I don't want to "own" data any more than I want to own a car. What I want is control, rights, privacy and personal freedom. The ownership obsession seems to me a red herring that just proves how much we've been taken in by consumer capitalism.

Forgive the rant. I agree with you on the substance.

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