That is what I am starting to realize. Every paid program that I used to desire is now subscription based.
Also, I am coming to terms with how truly powerful FOSS programs are. People seem to pay for the workflow, the user interface, more than the capabilities. At least I feel that way with DAWs. Ardour does everything. Vital makes every sound. I can be happy with that. I need to focus on making music.
I get that. I mean, WINE has gone a long way, but it is not perfect. I think I need to buy an SSD just for Windows, and that would be ideal.
I think I started using Linux way before that. I think I was just curious about whether I was missing anything. I really am not!
Thank you for the advice. I know the data is my responsibility... so I need a better system.
Thank you! I will check those out.
I absolutely have old capbable computers I need to put to work.
Thank you for the reply! Nextcloud seems like the way to go, and it has a client for everything which is nice.
I need to learn how to host things. The pricing is reasonable though, but I am not a business, but I will see.
I like OneDrive, but I no doubt there is a FOSS solution. I just need to look into a hosting provider I guess.
My family pays for all the major services... but honestly I stopped watching. It is just waaaayyy to much stuff to care about.
I decided that I will only subscribe to things that are unique and have yearly subscriptions. So, that means Criterion Channel, Shudder, Dropout, and Nebula. As a student I get a discount for some of these, and I am paying Youtube Premium because as much Google sucks, YouTube is like UNESCO world heritage sight. Infinite value and priceless.
Somehow I trust Opera and Microsoft over Brave as this point.
What a world.
I have tried to go back to Mastodon, but I have not found an instance that makes me care enough.
Proxmox is awesome. Sort of the answer to most of my server wants.
In principle, anthropologically speaking, the depth and breadth of data that has been collected is at its face outstanding and valuable. The full range of human experience is documented. What can be learned if it were studied would perhaps help save the world.
Unfortunately, that "public" data is only available to the companies that harvest and buy it, not to the world at large. Not unless you are already in the shit that is collecting information on you
To echo what other people have said, any benefits of public data is immediately squashed by the heinous abuse of power that comes from not protecting privacy.
Information is freely given by those who care about the world and want to see it improve. No need to take away human rights for that.
Yes. The cost is reasonable, and think it is worth it!
Right now I am using Tracktion Waveform, but I do not love it.
I am looking at Reaper, and I do like the workflow, but the way it loads plugins puts me off. Not horrible, I just need to do extra work to make it work.