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But that’s still a great accomplishment. Good job!!

How can self-hosting be enshitified? I need to know if I am to spend shit ton of time, money and mind space on it😩

Haha thanks, but I am a fucking nerd too and having kids is the biggest motivator for doing all you can for a better future. But yeah the time it takes to be able to go against the big-tech and surveillance state is NOT family friendly at all. Which is ironically why so many people become complicit in the system after having kids. It is by design.

I really hate how much I enjoy being in an eco-system. I am a Mac user and it took forever to covince myself to stop using an iPhone and get a pixel with graphene on it. I love the proton email and calendar being in one app on my mac, makes my life so much easier and I mourn the idea of not having that anymore. But I know you get used to the small conveniences eventually so yeah, you’re right. Thanks for the recommendations, SyncThings look like would be very useful to me!

Yeah, and mine just got renewed for a year a couple of months ago so I’m gonna stick with it for the time being, hoping they listen to their paying customers while exploring the self hosting options but I really am not sure that’s for me. I managed to do a lot of privacy related improvements in my digital life by just following github instructions blindly and such, but I think self hosting for email is the step it really goes above my pay grade. I tried doing jellyfin and high seas to stop paying for ellison’s hbo but it didn’t work out well and I’m back to paying for it begrudgingly. Ugh.

I’ve worked as a polling location clerk for the past several elections in TX. Yesterday I saw the most number of first time voters coming in, smiling shyly (and some not knowing how to sign lol) than ever. I also saw many elderly women coming in with their first time voter grandchildren, which stood out to me and made me wonder who brought whom. I suspect we had a record first time voter participation for a mid-term election cycle, and curious to know how much it effected the results.

My 2nd grader son loves ducks. He will be happy with this change.

This is so frustrating because I started degoogling exactly a year ago, and had finally managed to get completely free of Google mostly thanks to the proton ecosystem… But it took a whole year! I am just settling. I am a mom of two under-10yo boys in my forties. I don’t have time for this shit. I thought I was gonna die a proton user. Fucking hell.