I think in this case it's, "fossil fuel companies evil, therefore anything they support is evil."
My personal stance isn't that fossil fuel companies are evil per se, it's that they care more about profit than the well-being of the earth. Which happens to be evil, sure, but the motivation here isn't to be evil. So if there's a way to make money and also help the planet, I'm all for it, regardless of who is behind it.
While I doubt they'll kill Photos any time soon*, I can't recommend self hosting Immich enough**! It has completely "made photos fun again" for me.
Mail, calendar, maps, and Chromecast (mostly for non-Google services) are my main holdouts, and aside from EOL'ing my Chromecast, I think these products are fairly safe.
** Any self hosting community can help you out if you're interested! If you have old hardware sitting around it can be done basically for free. I'm using a free VPS with static IP, WireGuard tunnel to my home server, no DynDNS required. Hostnames are cheap, and Let's Encrypt is awesome and free.
Really depends on who you ask
for every "SF is horrible I'm moving to Texas" blog posts you can find someone with a very, very different experience. I think it's great here
it's a "proper city," but it's small, only about 7x7 miles. Many distinct neighborhoods, and some great food. And for the lycra crowd, you can hop on a bike and end up in the middle of nowhere for lunch (Mt. Tam via Alpine Dam is to die for).
Yes, parts of the Tenderloin, the hairball, etc., are not always the nicest places to hang out. But spend a day looking for fun and pretty things here and I think you'll have a great time :)
The entire Lost Coast certainly agrees with you.
I don't get all the Apple hate from the Linux community. Out of the box you have a fully usable *NIX machine
they even switched the default shell to zsh! No advertising in the Start menu, and ssh (client and server) included by default. Install homebrew and boom
tmux, htop, nload, lolcats.....most of your favorite tools can be installed easy as on any linux distro.
I use Debian for personal use, and I much prefer it...but basically only because I prefer i3 to the Mac GUI.
My pandemic stimulus
which was direct deposited into my account
was accompanied by a letter with Trump's signature.
I'm gonna go ahead and give Biden a pass on this one.
As other commenter mentioned, check compression.
Transferring over ssh will use more CPU than something simpler/not encrypted. If you want fast, I would try NFS or even Samba. If you want fastest possible, netcat will be hard to beat but that's getting silly.
Kinda looks like Evil Jimmy Page.
Which is not what we should be focusing on, of course...
I'm in the same boat. Others have suggested CF (which you said you don't want to use) and TailScale or similar.
I opted for a "roll your own" approach and just use a free VPS (w/static IP) and a WireGuard tunnel. The VPS port forwards to my home server. It all works great for me. If throughput is a real concern then an entry level/free VPS might not be enough for you, but it's completely fine for my use.
No DDNS or anything is required. You can reverse proxy instead of port forward if you prefer.
I like this solution (VPS+WireGuard) because it doesn't rely on any particular third party or proprietary products; basically any VPS will do, so I'm not tied to any product in particular.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3175
In 1900, the average family had an annual income of $3,000 (in today's dollars). The family had no indoor plumbing, no phone, and no car. About half of all American children lived in poverty. Most teens did not attend school; instead, they labored in factories or fields.
Was at a different fast food restaurant the other day and they didn't have hot sauce out. So I asked the cashier, and he handed me a handful of hot sauce packets.
It happens.
Tangentially
if a company offers free stuff with very little barrier, there's probably a lot more waste than when you have to ask someone/ever-so-slightly inconvenience yourself to get it. I think you'll always have a group of people angry no matter what.
Meatbike, meatcycle?