Screw us always more, why?

Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)

My only blocked content is a few people who I can’t be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.

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Sure but you still have to believe and trust Filen

Obviously, like I must trust anyone involved in the whole process of me using a computer/phone to do anything. From the maker of my device (that it doesn’t contain some spyware out of the factory, I remember an issue like that with Lenovo and another with Sony), to the app I use but also my ISP (that in France is legally required to keep all my online activities for a few years, btw) but also the maker (and the seller) of my keyboard hoping that they too did not add some spyware or keylogger.

As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I moved a lot of my activities offline is me realizing my inability to trust (corporate-owned) digital tools to actually respect my privacy. The simplest solution for me was to remove as much as possible of that tech from my workflow ;)

Depends what you use cloud storage for obviously.

Indeed.

This is not irrelevant if you just don’t want to bother with encrypting them or with having to deal with a locked folder (I think I understand what that would be, but I’m not sure). Filen does encrypt the folder(s) I tell it to encrypt and sync them to its cloud storage. I have nothing to manage once I’ve setup the sync(s) I need. Different solutions for different needs… and different types of users ;)

I use it too, as well as Infomaniak KDrive (not E2EE)

What I don’t understand is people need to hate it publicly and not simply just block it

Probably the same motivation as the need to promote it publicly and not alone bye oneself, wouldn’t you agree?

There are ALLOT of people

You lost me right there. ‘a lot’ is purely subjective and is not much of a fact. I mean, there are 8 billions of us on the planet. So, what is a lot? How many ‘people on the Internet who adhere to almost a religious orthodoxy to Left Wing values’ have you personally met ? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? More? And how (what criteria) did you count them?

Have you guys ever considered going an opposite direcrion?

Have you ever, and why would that be different for anyone else that is not you?

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it’s great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I’m pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.

if you self-censor, probably ;)

Thx for the clarification.

Fingers crossed & thx :)

They want to stay by themselves? That’s fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?

Nah, cheers on ya lad. Helps hearing sanity amidst equally purposeful chaos. Good people in France, good people in America, good people all over.

I would be tempted to say ‘Amen to that’ but since I’m not a believer and, more importantly, since I know how ‘Amen’ is frowned upon but this time by another bunch of self-proclaimed defenders of the good values (aka censors), I will simply and enthusiastically say +1 ;)

I don’t think I need to spend that much money on my current hobbies. But I obviously could

• A real lot of pencils, a lot of Bic and a lot of paper to write with (and to make paper planes, too). Like a good chunk of a lifetime worth of supply :p
• A lot (but already a little less) of top quality watercolor paint (that I don’t need to enjoy my hobby watercoloring), too many top of the line watercolor brushes (that I don’t need for my hobby either) and a lot of excellent watercolor paper (that I may enjoy using but still don’t really need for my hobby ;)
• The entire line of Caran d’Ache ‘Luminance’ colored pencils and the entire line of Faber Castell ‘Polychromos’ colored pencils, in multiple examples. But why would I need that many colors when I use maybe 10 or 12 regularly?
• I do a lot of scratch building also using… cardboard. SO, a 1000€ would buy a few decades, centuries?, worth of cardboard and fresh hobby blades too. But since I mostly used recycled cardboard from old packages and parcels… I won’t need to buy those.

Back when I was making scale models (plastic planes and tanks) I could have easily spend that In a couple hour in any hobby shop worth shopping at, buying a few fancy model kits, too much paint and some of the fancier tools, plus reference books. Or on a single camera lens, but that is another hobby I quit practicing. Or on some rare books… which I also quit collecting. It looks like I won’t be able to spend much money :p

Like with every single other day of the week: I welcome it and do my best with whatever it gives me.

Some parts of the US population are so intellectually fucked up, it’s hard to believe witnessing it from the outside while also knowing perfectly well how fucking smart and bright other parts of the exact same population are at the same time.

But fear not, dear USA, you’re not alone in that dumbefuckery shitshow your’re putting on for the world to see as we have the same kind of morons thriving around here, in France, too. They too like to (try to) ban and forbid stuff, they’re just a tad dumber than your own dumbfucks.

Once they will realize banning books is not enough, I suppose they will ask for laws allowing to take them out of our private home, and burn them, to show how bad those books are. Like some other absolute assholes already did some 80/90 years ago.

I’m sorry for being so negative. It’s just… They’re exhausting. I wish they would take some rest, once in a while.

We have people telling us the earth is flat. Them saying so doesn’t make our good old planet any flatter ;)

I mean one can find excess absolutely anywhere, that doesn’t demonstrate much imho.

As many as I have days to live.

(Not the OP but an old dude myself ;))

• “Klaatu barada nikto”
• “Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha”

The first one is a classic. The second one may not be as familiar but still is a great movie ;)