Nick@mikesax @codinghorror Legitimate counterpoint—as long as your cool with your 'stuff' being stored on Apple's serbers (where it may or may not be as indecipherable as it is in-transit).
Jeff Atwood@nicholasburns @mikesax pick your poison, my friend, or give up electricity and go off-grid permanently.
@codinghorror Hah, false dichotomy. But I take your point (and wish I could).
@nicholasburns it isn't, really. Unless every year is the year of Linux of the Desktop now.
@codinghorror I guess it turns on whether all 'technology' could be reasonably construed as metaphorically poisonous. But then again human-made fire and the invention of agriculture were once, technically, technological advancements...
@nicholasburns unless you fully de-cloud, you're going to be making some tradeoffs. Are you 100% on servers you fully own?
@codinghorror 100% legitimate call-out, and I was never challenging that point. Merely that 'pick poison or off-grid' is a false dichotomy. Not all technology is metaphorical poison—and 'off-grid' has its own technology needs in almost-2026.
I mean shit, I've spent the last decade trying to settle on Proxmox or bhyve while the now-outdated hardware gathers dust (that it can't even serve everything I currently rely on other people's servers for notwithstanding). Not sure if 'de-clouding' is even a reasonable pursuit anymore.
@nicholasburns it's not. Pick your poison.
@codinghorror That's Luddite talk.
@nicholasburns hard disagree; everything is poison, it's only a question of amounts and duration. Tradeoffs everywhere.