I’ll vouch for it. Pretty damned delicious.

Yep, you still can use Android without a Google account, and you don’t have to jump through any hoops to opt out. I always set mine up w/o an account because I typically have to go through several OOBE wizards with a new device to run OTA updates, then clear the user partition and such before installing Lineage.

Yep. This “meme” is straight-up whataboutism.

That’s okay, too.

For me, I only let people I know use them (friends and family) with the exception of my Lemmy instance, of course.

I’d be running these for myself whether anyone else used them or not. Unless I’m hosting for hundreds of people, the cost to run these services is the same as it is just for myself. Granted, I don’t have people gaming the system trying to backup their entire PCs to their email inbox, but that’s where the trust factor comes in (only hosting for people I know personally).

As far as being responsible for all that goes, again, the small audience of people I know personally lets me explain that it’s all “best effort”. That said, I do take my own backups seriously and they benefit from that.

How exactly are “communities offering services” a different thing than “hosted software”?

It’s a lot easier to ask Matt down the street to customize or add a feature than it is to ask Google, FB, etc.

Case in point: I’ve run my own email server since 2013 or so. I’ve got friends and family that use it. One of my friends asked if there was any way to setup rules to filter emails and such. I was like “yep” and added on Sieve to Dovecot and setup the webmail (Roundcube at the time) with the Sieve plugin.

Granted, that’s a pretty basic feature that pretty much all commercial email providers offer, but the point is someone asked for it and I made it happen for them.

I’ve self hosted long before the privacy nightmare of modern cloud/SaaS platforms was a thing. I do it because I enjoy it (and at the time I got started, I had crap internet so having good local services like offline Wikipedia was important).

Not everyone has to self-host. I run lots of services, mostly for myself, but friends and family who don’t know a system driver from a bus driver also use them. So the expectation that everyone self host is and always has been “pie in the sky”. And that’s okay.

Privacy regulations are all fine and dandy, but even with the strictest ones in place, you still do not own or control your data. You’re still subscribing to services instead of owning software. You can’t extend, modify, or customize hosted software. Self hosting FOSS applications addresses all of those.

So rather than expect everyone to self-host, we should be working towards communities offering services to one another, pooling resources, and letting those interoperate with each other.

To make fun of an old moral panic in the 90s: “It’s 11pm. Do you know where your data is?” Yep, it’s down the street in Matt’s house.

I had a similar reaction on my second playthrough of Bioshock when I realized Andrew Ryan was also Quark.

Reminds me of this bit from Married with Children where Kelly has to react to the flavors of the diet shake she’s doing a commercial for.

I don’t use the desktop app, but the mobile app has a setting for what to do with the original file:

1. Keep in original folder
2. Move to app folder
3. Deleted

I have different sync folders setup differently depending on use case, but I typically use option #1 as my “default”.

Maybe when you setup the sync folder, you set it to delete the local files?

Also, is the OneDrive folder a “real” folder or virtual one? I’ve only used Google Drive for things like that, and the local folder just holds a skeleton of the contents and pulls from the network on-demand. It…does not play well with other sync utilities or even copying through robocopy.

Star Trek: C/\ssidy Y/\tes

I’d watch that.

Pretty much, and I think they did him dirty.

They buddied Trip and Malcolm and Mayweather was just kind of…there.

Lampshaded on 30 Rock. I actually preferred the lighting from the live shows.

I’ll take “Things I want printed on my coffee mug” for $100, Alex.

“Captain, this seems like a gross violation of both the Prime Directive and the Temporal Prime Directive”

For SNW, I don’t think it matters beyond preference. A few other comments suggest watching it before TNG, and that makes sense.

I’ve seen those both on YouTube and at festivals. They’re pretty cool.

Personally, I don’t even like opening a can of biscuits because of the ‘pop’, so I don’t know how I’d feel about using one of those at home. lol

I do prefer to pan pop, but sometimes I’m just lazy and want to throw it in the microwave and only press one button.

Probably at the point they went to the app store, searched TikTok, and clicked “install”.

I was late to the party, so my initial watch order was all kinds of messed up. I went DIS -> LD -> VOY -> DS9 -> TNG -> VOY (again) -> ENT -> SNW. Sadly, have only seen bits and pieces of TOS (and only GIFs of TAS).

Definitely recommend watching the TNG era in order: TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT and then doubling back to watch Lower Decks again (because why not lol). I also recommend watching Prodigy after VOY since it’s basically VOY season 8/9. SNW is a spinoff from DIS, so I’d watch at least seasons 1-2 of DIS before SNW.

Prodigy is a kid’s show, but please don’t let that turn you away. It’s pretty great.