Haah.

Everyone with half a brain knew that after Brexit Britain would spend the next 50 years trying to cut down on red tape and trade restrictions, effectively re-joining without re-joining.

Sure ok but that’s pretty meaningless at this juncture.

Rigged machines aren’t going to save us

Good lord. I’m not having a debate about the adequacy of an analogy. Well done.

Like any analogy, it doesn’t perfectly map to the complex issue being analogised (?), but it’s not as absurd as you’re making out.

The architecture for plugin support is not free. Even if no plugins are active the platform is built to support all the extra nonsense.

lighttpd is the leanest webdav implementation i can think of. Obviously it doesn’t have sync and sharing and permissions, but it’s an interesting point of reference demonstrating how over engineered nextcloud really is.

If you’re a fan, and want all of this stuff bundled together then fine, have at it. As I said up top, I am using it but I dislike it immensely.

Those are add-ons.

Besides which, o365 is not a single self hosted php behemoth.

I’m loathe to extoll the virtues of 365. I don’t use it and never will.

Oh please. AWD is not “better” 4WD. 2 different things for completely different purposes.

Sure that’s why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don’t want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.

Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?

Well if I uninstaller them what would i complain about?

Nextcloud isn’t a 365 competitor?

It’s filesync with contacts and calendar.

Even once you build in documents and spreadsheets, 365 at least has separate applications for that - its not a single overblown behemoth.

Partly, yes. But also partly because world leaders have realised that if you don’t want the US to fuck you up the ass you need to say nice things to Trump, preferably combined with gifts.

KeepassXC is the only thing that makes sense to me.

I don’t want all my passwords stored with some huge target like lastpass or bitwarden.

Encrypted local (and synced) DB is the only way.

Kinda sounds awful honestly.

I do use nextcloud for my small team. It’s the best of the selfhosted file sync platforms.

That said, it’s obscenely over engineered.

Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?

Hol up. Didn’t NATO guy wank all over daddy’s boobs already?

Reminds me of this time last year when Trump was on trial for a half dozen things.

Everyone was all like “ooh it would be so undemocratic to try someone while they’re campaigning”.

Meanwhile republicans can just uncitizen anyone they don’t like.

You can’t win if no one is playing by the rules.

I agree that we’ve been doing number 3 for decades. Sooner or later that has to lead to a revolution though right?

You’re correct that this has always been the case in the past.

Advances in technology free people up to do other productive things.

I imagine that trend may stop some time, but I don’t think we’re there yet.

That’s a pretty thin connection. If that’s the requirement, more or less everything political.

There is no law banning dog walking, therefore any discussion about dogs is political!

Sure so maybe /c/regulatorybodies then.

What does this have to do with politics?

Musk is a train wreck that was briefly engaged in destroying the public service in the US. That doesn’t mean that everything tangentially associated any company associated with him is politics.

Yeah. There’s a correlation vs causation problem here that I don’t really have the answers to.

In other words I think that’s reductive.

Hillary was Hillary and didn’t take Trump seriously.

Kamala was run without much planning and forethought.

AOC might be a woman, and I take your point that may not be in her favor, but she has many virtues that may outweigh that disadvantage.