• Fancy_Economist8458@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    There it is.

    People just complain then bent over. Until people decide to act like you do, nothing will change.

    I feel people buy into the whole ecosystem shit way more than they should. They have an iphone so they feel a Mac is mandatory… i switched to a cheapo Android recently and im still alive. I also built a PC and i sold my M1 mac and im still alive. The result? Way less doom scrolling and economy.

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      1 year ago

      You can just log in to iCloud on a PC and do heaps of stuff. I’ve got a beater Chromebook running Arch linux. Ooops i dropped it, who cares.

    • MarkPugnerIII@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      My old job bought my current Macbook. I won’t be buying another.

      I’m already working to wean myself off the Apple ecosystem. Syncing icloud stuff to my NAS, moving music to my Plex, etc… Most of the things that made Apple/iCloud so useful are now easily duplicated with a home server

      • Fancy_Economist8458@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        What is the hype about Plex home server? I use Google services and everything sync no matter thr hardware. Am I missing something?

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          1 year ago

          Plex is just a media server but yea, you’re at google’s mercy (and spying).

          If you have your own server you control everything. Data is kept in house. You control who has access to what.

          Google has a history of just killing off services, leaving people to scramble to find alternatives. Not to mention the make their money by harvesting your data, reading your email, etc.

          There are plenty of home server options for things like contacts, calendar, notes, dropbox/google drive, and just about everything.

          Personally I just like to be in control of my stuff. And I’m working to get everything platform independent since I fell into the Apple trap.