Its my experience with server software for beginners in general, which gets my enshittification senses tingling. I just dont trust in a company providing a hell of a service (like, getting tens if not hundreds of docker images to work with the click of a button) for free.

With Truenas I know that their community branch is an ad for their enterprise service because no single person will key thousands for the caliber of support their enterprise has, so they make their money by offering cloud services. So that explains how it is still feasable for them to give me their dataset and UI and everything frontend for free.

But with Casa, I just dont know where the money comes from. I dont see how they can keep up their operations and make a profit with this kind of effort. So I can only assume that many non essential services will be put behind a paywall.

And if they do it, I still know that they use docker and ZFS, and I can spend a day or 2 learning how to set up a software raid and an ssd as a ZFS buffer for it, and everything else i‘ve set up with their OS.

But thats the problem: Beginners dont know. Its like with the Iphone: If the user dosent learn how to deploy a docker instance from a compose file themselves, they will be bound to that frontend and all the enshittification that happens to it.

Therefore I would like it way more if Selfhosting was more like the AUR. First learn how the Process of pulling an image and makepkg‘ing works firsthand, then you can use the frontend like yay. Not the other way around.

But if no one learns how to do something the old fashioned way and relies on a frontend for everything, at some point the company behind the frontend will vendor lock everyone into their system, since there is no competition anyway

But if you need to pay for a „Media Flatrate“ anyway, and you have those 5€ a month, why not spend it for a good cause?

(Also PIA and nord cost 12€ a month unless you sign their predatory 2 year contracts [which are even then just like 1€ per month cheaper], so mullvad is just way better in that regard too)

Also features like UDPoTCP let you bypass local network restrictions, and the ability to pay with cash and Crypto is great if you dont want want to/ cant use paypal or a bank account for any reason

Because of fucking course there is

Were talking about Jesusland after all

China has already caught up. They made a better model than US companies ever could, because they are self hostable

Its really easy to be honest, you just have to slowly take away everything and give them choices, and they will be so occupied with discussing what they want to choose, they will not even notice how we slowly strangle them

Restrictive OSs and stuff will become the new normal, essentially stripping us of our freedom, more things will become 1st Party only and moving your data will be even harder than ever, essentially becoming cultural houses, basically what apple has already done

Be my guest, uninstall GPServices and see

Never had it installed in the first place.

All of your Points are either already answered by me, ad hominem, or random assumptions without data backing it up.

False.Graphene does not have Gservices installed by default

but it will always be far less aggressive about it than Google

Whataboutism. Browser advertises itself as privacy respecting, yet builds on a non Privacy respecting OS. If they really wanted to protect the user, they would be open source, (at least the methods of protecting the user from tracking) firefox based and availible for linux and Android FOSS, similar to everything else (Firefox, Molly, Signal, etc). My whole Comment was about how they advertise themselves as Private, yet fail to address the most basic privacy concerns, essentially being an oxymoron. This was not about „which OS is less evil“ but „why did they not opt for the not at all evil?“

Android also runs Google play services

False. AOSP does not have Gservices, and has enough forks for hardware (Linaege, Graphene, Calyx, /e/)

Both OS suck big time

See my point about AOSP.

I know the post was about Apple

So you just posted some random comment just because?

and I was pointing out that android is likely worse for privacy

Also false, see my Point about AOSP.

Still, it wouldn’t be in their interest to gather data

My sources say otherwise.. Apple has an interest in collecting your data.

What? You mean Android?

I know this is not really a thing where you come from, but here on lemmy we read the OPs text first before commenting, which also would have answered all your questions, but if you really need it: The Browser is based on Propriatery Apple Software and only runs on it

yep

Like, you want to actually contribute against fingerprinting? Make a repo with documentation on how you want to achieve it and publish a firefox fork as example.

If you want change in the software world, you have to make a blueprint everyone can use or at least get an idea and let them have the freedom of implementing it their own way

„We ArE sOOoO pRivAtE“

Based on closed source Webengine running on OS known for data collection™

Also, if the game isnt exactly something like oneshot where you literally only have one shot, steam achievements are just totally stupid since you cant replay the game

Also you cant even really save gamedata on there, only your progress

kinky

First of all, I dont see how this belongs in piracy

These shitty reward websites are total dogshit and will make you spend years to earn a shitty 10€ Xbox gift card (which are basically worthless)

So in other words, even if you use the most efficient Raspberry pi setup, you will be at a loss.

Nope, only with other linux phone brands

PostmarketOS is like the name says for EoL devices, not brand new ones

1. Find IP address
2. Input IP

done.

Welcome to the internet.

You just close all tabs and open the link until it actually works. That, or you use adblock

No requirements on replaceable batteries?

Its in there. At least for phones without a high enough waterproof rating

making the USB-C port easy to repair

As far as I know it should be in there too, or at least a „make significant parts replaceable”