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Anon degoogles his Samsung (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 70 points 2 years ago (17 children)

I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Not everyone has the possibility to self-host

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you're paying for?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It's when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it's more like 3-4€.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I just don't communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don't agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well evidently you're not in charge of anyone's healthcare: when you have a parent that has to be taken care of, you have to compromise if they're not able to adapt

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd rather use SMS than sign my rights over to Meta. They can use that if they can use facebook or whatsapp.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well life is all about what morals you decide to follow, I've evidently chosen the one where I'm handing over a small amount of privacy to be less of a pain in the ass to the people around me.
    And the main reasons are:

    1. elder parents I need to take care of
    2. people won't listen to you if you are unreasonable with them
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