That’s not really the point I’m trying to make, I’m not sure where this disconnect is coming from.

The question you should be asking is whether or not I can more easily access my home than a data center, to which the answer would be yes.

If the entire world disappeared aside from the plot of land I live on, well, I’d have larger issues, but I would still be able to access my data, until the generator ran out of gas of course.

To answer the question you did ask that, again, is not relevant to the point I’m trying to make, is yes. I work from home, and live in America where we don’t have third places, so I do most often access my data from home. Additionally, most of the services I self host are home automation and data backup based. Sure, I wouldn’t be able to access Immich or Home Assistant while away from home, which would be annoying, but the end of the world? Not really. A lot of people intentionally don’t make their HA/Immich instances visible to the internet.

I’m not sure what the disconnect is here. In both scenarios I’m reliant on an ISP. In the scenario where it’s on a data center, if my internet goes down or the data center goes down, I am shit out of luck. I am not capable of accessing my data. If it’s hosted at my house, I still have the ability to go home and access my stuff. One seems much better than the other to me. It’s the difference between being able to access your stuff and not.

There are definitely positives to both, but having physical access to my own hardware that contains my own data is a huge positive to me.

Sure, but if stuff goes really south, I can still access the stuff on my hardware from my home. If stuff goes down, I cannot access the stuff in data centers, period. There’s positives and negatives either way, but imo owning your shit is a huge positive.

This feels like a bad faith argument. If the internet goes down, I will be able to access my servers and my data by simply going home. If those services were hosted in the cloud, I wouldn’t not be able to access my data at all. Obviously one is better than the other.

That’s true I suppose. The only thing I can think of is check deposits. I only do that like once per year, so I could just go to the ATM or use an old Android device.

Exactly, which is why not having to checkout at all would be nice.

Because I’d rather be doing anything else at home that I can’t do while in line at the grocery store.

The issue isn’t self check or in person or whatever for me, it’s having to wait in a line at all. Being able to just walk out takes so much less time than checking out.

For me, it isn’t the interactions, it’s the inconvenience of having to wait in line and either wait for a checker to scan my items or scan them myself at self checkout. I don’t mind small talk with the checker, but faster grocery trips would be awesome.

I’ve yet to try a Linux Touch distro on a phone, but couldn’t you just save a shortcut to the website?

If they’re up 150% and it was 1000 before, it’d now be 2500. Your point still stands, of course.

USPS > UPS > Amazon/DHL/etc > FedEx

If Amazon is doing better than you at serving the customer, you need to look deep inwards.

Interesting, I’ll have to play around with that.

I use fdroid whenever possible, but I do use Google Play for most everything else. I do have a few apps that I install via APK, but built-in updaters are so uncommon on Android apps that it’s kind of a pain to maintain.

I’m sure it’ll be noticeable, but Dropout could market it as a fancy new update/UI. Users definitely aren’t going to have to migrate anywhere.

I’m a profesional software developer and my employer doesn’t let me use Linux.

Good parenting is always the answer to things like this, but parents are seemingly incapable of being good parents. That’s why I support the idea of something like this, as children should be protected from these awful social media companies that could not care less about the wellbeing of these kids, and parents seem to be incapable of managing it themselves.

It can be both

“Ahh, so we also ban VPNs, got it.” - Actual politicians in the UK

Man, I really support the idea of preventing children from partaking in many online activities, as they’ve been proven harmful to kids, but there’s just no good way to implement it.

I do, temperatures are often below freezing in the winter.