In many cases you don't have a choice. They weaseled their way into index funds and your employer gives you limited options.

I suppose I wish this was a source available tag. Yes some of these applications may not completely conform to FOSS, but source available is at least something. Most of the apps I use that are flagged mostly discuss licensing. I think it's useful to distinguish between the two.

Denovo is so fucked, I think we will still see some games releasing with it due to existing contracts, but apparently the Hypervisor bypass is working on Linux now with much less effort and none of the original security concerns. If you are a pirate Denuvo is now but a minor inconvenience.

Them blocking old reddit finally got me to bother getting redirect working (To redlib) in URLCheck. Fuck em, the experience is actually better so far.

Because it's the most secure app I can actually get people to install.

If you have friends or family privacy conscious enough then sure, use something different, or shoot, even self host. But for everyone else, even getting them to use Signal is a difficult feat.

Ya, humans always have to have more, it will be our undoing, greed is what is going to take out our species.

Xbox controllers were always very unstable for me, I switched to 8bitdo and it's been problem free. Also no more stick drift.

Not sure what integrity has to do with it. As for privacy, it's on a VLAN with no external ports open to it and is regularly patched. I'm not worried.

I suppose, that scenario just feels so far out there for me to worry about. I like being able to guarantee my family photos will not be lost.

I did actually try out Ente photos once and it actually worried me a little. It was buggy at the time, and I worried my photos would actually end up stuck in an encrypted Ente instance after a bad update.

I backup the immich directory directly onto the drive, so no matter what, even if I mess up immich, I still have my photos.

I don't think a hacker is going to care about my family photos in the event of a breach. They are going to try to mine crypto, add me to a botnet or try to get money out of me.

If you have any sensitive photos then ya those should be encrypted at rest. In that case I'd keep them off a server entirely.

Photos is actually something that I don't want to be E2EE when self hosting, so I host immich myself. But since you said it's not an option, id go with Ente. They are encrypted and they have paid options.

The reason I don't want it to be encrypted is I want my family to be able to easily retrieve the photos in case I die. I actually have a drive I occasionally backup in my safe that has all our family photos on it unprotected. That way in case I die unexpectedly my kids dont lose them all.

And it proves what many have been saying. The primaries are the time for you to cast your protest vote, not the generals.