Ah, open, as in not creating a seal in your ear, and not open as in open source.

I knew that…

Tell me more about this

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It’s not fundamentally different

I already saw copyparty but it appears to me to be a pretty large codebase for something so simple. I don’t want to have to keep up with that because there’s no way I’m reading and vetting all that code; it becomes a security problem.

It is still easier and infinitely more secure to grab a USB drive, a bicycle and just haul ass across town. Takes less time, too.

Sending is someone else’s problem.

It becomes my problem when I’m the one who wants the files and no free service is going to accept an 80gb file.

It is exactly my point that I should not have to deal with third parties or something as massive and monolithic as Nextcloud just to do the internet equivalent of smoke signals. It is insane. It’s like someone tells you they don’t want to bike to the grocer 5 minutes away because it’s currently raining and you recommend them a monster truck.

Why is it so hard to send large files?

Obviously I can just dump it on my server and people can download it from a browser but how are they gonna send me anything? I’m not gonna put an upload on my site, that’s a security nightmare waiting to happen. HTTP uploads have always been wonky, for me, anyway.

Torrents are very finnicky with 2-peer swarms.

instant.io (torrents…) has never worked right.

I can’t ask everyone to install a dedicated piece of software just to very occasionally send me large files

It counts

You can argue with them until the cows come home. It’s not about playing dirty or keeping your hands clean, it’s about not wasting your time with rotting lead-brained boomers. You can do that if you think it’s fun, but it’s not gonna achieve anything.

Your first mistake is assuming NIMBYs are arguing in good faith. They will simply keep arguing the point, or find another one. They don’t even have to argue on a basis of truth, as long as they keep screeching loud enough for everyone to go “FINE, baby. Have it your way” because they don’t wanna deal with it anymore.

Do not appeal to or argue with NIMBYs, instead present your case to politicians and participate in your local politics.

For one I don’t use software that updates constantly. If I had to log in to a container more than once a year to fix something, I’d figure out something else. My NAS is just harddrives on a Debian machine.

Everything I use runs either Debian or is some form of BSD

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Thanks I’ll never visit Hamburg

That’s based of Hamburg as far as explicit costs go, but there’s also implicit costs. I don’t know Hamburg, I’ve never been there, but I’ll make an assumption that it’s like every other big city with urban parking and ICE cars stuck in traffic every morning, bellowing fumes out for everyone to breathe.

It is my argument that for every dollar you don’t explicitly spend on car infrastructure, you’ll get it back tenfold in implicit costs being alleviated elsewhere, especially in the physical- and mental healthcare sectors.

It sounds like all of the problems they’ve faced are matters of fiscal priority. By contrast, how much money was spent on car infrastructure that ultimately has still not fixed traffic? I’m betting that number is higher.

what?

The misunderstanding seems to be between software and hardware. It is good to reboot Windows and some other operating systems because they accumulate errors and quirks. It is not good to powercycle your hardware, though. It increases wear.

I’m not on an OS that needs to be rebooted, I count my uptime in months.

I don’t want you to pick up a new anxiety about rebooting your PC, though. Components are built to last, generally speaking. Even if you powercycled your PC 5 times daily you’d most likely upgrade your hardware long before it wears out.

Powercycling is not healthy lol

To me, the appeal is that my workflow depends less on my computer and more on my ability to connect to a server that handles everything for me. Workstation, laptop or phone? Doesn’t matter, just connect to the right IPs and get working. Linux is, of course, the holy grail of interoperability, and I’m all Linux. With a little bit of set up, I can make a lot of things talk to each other seamlessly. SMB on Windows is a nightmare but on Linux if I set up SSH keys then I can just open a file manager and type sftp://<hostname> and now I’m browsing that machine as if it was a local folder. I can do a lot of work from my genuinely-trash laptop because it’s the server that’s doing the heavy lifting

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My workflow becomes “client agnostic” and I value that a lot

I’m sure there’s ways to do it, but I can’t do it and it’s not something I’m keen to learn given that I’ve already kind of solved the problem :p