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In the time it took you to write that comment, someone could have downloaded the app and started using it.

Apparently setting up your own cloud service at home is really simple, super smooth experience, you just enter a command and there it is, interface, backups, security, just magic.

You realise just saying things are easy doesn't mean anything? That everything you listed their is a dependency waiting to fail. That they are products run by companies who can change their licensing, pricing and privacy policies. They can be bought out by other companies and release new versions that add/remove features that break your setup.

You also conveniently left out the part of buying hardware and installing and configuring OSs and software to run everything and making sure you have the necessary backups and redundancies to maintain a near flawless uptime on par with any cloud service.

Your bloated scope of recording all sorts of data does not fit the intended goal. That the app will sunset is merely your opinion that is inherently bias to building everything from scratch. It is not viable for nearly everyone other than those belonging to niche enthusiasts communities.

If you want to record achievements, download the app... which part of that is bloated?

Download an app, or configure an entire cloud service over the weekend to record some notes. I wonder whats easier, hmmmm.

This post a highlights a huge pitfall many in tech fall into and best avoided if you want to progress in your career. Drop the elitism and ego and start thinking about how other people go about managing their digital content and create things that others find useful, not just you.

Recursion sounds like resurrection, so they must be the same.

What about the Matrix Resuscitation, because resuscitating someone is like 'resurrecting' them from the dead. Im sure they meant to call it Matrix Resuscitation, the meta is strong.

Alien 3, it's kind of a big deal.

My recursive functions don't hang, they just get better.

So good you can only watch 15 minutes before moving to something else?

A device must have an option for its security to be exploited by allowing the installation of a tracking app that violates every aspect of users privacy, intended to be used by minors, with the express purpose of transferring explicit material to a third party?

If a device does not provide this option for compromised security, it is by default censorship.

It not being censored. Simply creating an app doesn't afford you the privilege of hosting on the app store.

There is no razors edge here, your app violates nearly every standard Apple uses to distinguish itself from its competitors... privacy, security, safety. Why are you playing victim and getting offended when people point out the obvious? Were you just hoping for answers that blamed Apple?

The issue in this case is the 'spyware' nature of the app, rather than any matter of taste.

Can also come in handy when road raging.

Enough, stop pretending advertising is some critical brainwashing marketing tool responsible for the success of all businesses, regardless of product.

As for your reference to ownCloud, there are no pre-builds for raspbian. You have to build the web stack on the pi. This is the most inconvenient option imaginable, but I guess it's the hypnotising marketing stopping Grandma from building a web service.

Enough, stop pretending advertising is some critical brainwashing marketing tool responsible for the success of all businesses, regardless of product.

That sounds neither convenient or cheap. How is setting up a raspberry so simple, yet using youtube so hard? It's getting absolutely silly now. Its not an argument, if your option were the preferred then it would be the predominant means of consuming content, but it's not. Your reasoning is that people use this method not because it's the most preferred but because they cant manage their shit, or are manipulated by big business. Is that not condescending?

Care to explain how easy it is to setup your own cloud platform that can sync all this content from any device and has the necessary redundancy and security options. Obviously sharing would be important, would need to be able to easily collaborate with others, sharing photo albums etc. Some versioning options would be preferable also.

Needs to be very simple so my grandmother can build it, and cheap. No maintenance, set and forget. I assume there will be apps available for all her devices to quickly go through the process or will she need to create them? It needs to be easy to search for content and stream on any device at any time without fail.

She doesn’t care about ‘owning digital movies’ or the exaggerated threat of her accounts being closed. She's is much more likely to accidentally lose her own content managing it herself. She just wants to watch movies, how much will it cost to own all that content? Less the $10/month?

No professionals so let’s keep instructions basic and preferably just using a single blank drive with no content.

It must bother you that people don’t grow their own food? That they can’t manage their shit and need to buy it from a store?

What? When is the last time you built a YouTube or Netflix? When did people in the past EVER have access to near infinite amounts of content that could be streamed over the internet onto any device?

My grandma wouldn’t know what ‘burning’ a CD means, but she sure knows how to use Netflix.

It’s not defensive to explain the overwhelming reality of todays content landscape. I couldn’t be bothered explaining the difference between a single 1tb drive and YouTube or Netflix, it’s clearly obvious.

There is nothing ridiculous about contracting companies to do work. We hire professionals to perform all sorts of tasks everyday and purchase products made by them. It’s not lazy to do so, it’s smart. Why do I have to explain the basics of how the world works?

For e.g. Do you grow your own food? Fruit and vegetables all that. It's easy right some soil and seeds with minor maintenance. You don't need professionals to do something so basic. Why cant everyone become an expert at growing their own food? Why do we need farmers, a massive global supply chain and mega stores to do something so simple? The idea that we have this global spanning network just to supply a tomato to someone is stupid and we screwed up?!

We don't have time to be experts at every facet of life, the world doesn't work like that. Believe it or not, managing big stashes of content isn't common knowledge or on everyones priority list.

Why are we pretending it's the early 2000s? CDs were used because that was the best option at the time obviously. To compare them to services today hosting infinite amounts of LEGAL content streamed over the internet to millions of people on all manner of devices at the touch of a button is rather odd.

Likewise, it's weird that you need professionals to build such services? Anything that is so complicated that it requires professionals to create it has fucked up? In other words, every industry that ever existed is fucked up because they require more than a passing knowledge... professionals shouldn't exist.

Most people use mobile devices and want the ability to watch content anywhere, anytime at press of a play button. That’s the benchmark. No personal hardware setup will match that convenience and people who are not aware of the security risks shouldn’t be hosting their own content from their personal network online.

Routers and USB sticks are the long term trend? How exactly will a USB stick handle apps purchased through the App Store or your subscription to Apple Music?

The long term trend is the exact opposite. People don't want to the manage hardware and all the issues of configuration, backups and troubleshooting faults that come with that, just to watch a movie. They want to palm off that responsibility to an external entity.

Unlike Musk, they were asked to help by officials in charge because they were the best at what they do. What they had just achieved was an unbelievable feat rescuing those boys.

The place was already a media circus but Elon decided to involve himself anyway and complicate the situation because he read about it in the news?

So when the actual heroes of the story are asked questions about the annoying tech billionaire who wanted to try out one of his 'new toys' in such a high pressure situation, they didn't mince words. It was a stupid idea, and he said as much.

Apparently this hero (and I mean HERO, not some cliche) was supposed to be more diplomatic to the sensitive self serving tech billionaire who injected himself into the story, did nothing but promote his own image and then slandered the actual people who performed the rescue.

How are infections measured in seconds?

Combat, sacrilege. Its MK, Mortal Kombat.

So you're able to interpret individual frame transitions at 24 frames a second? You've been unable to watch the vast majority of movies created in the last century as they strain your eyes? Maybe you need to get your bionic eye recalibrated?

Why would playing high frame rate games alter your vision? Is your brain reprogrammed when viewing image transitions at frame rates so high that they cant even be noticed.

It was certainly good enough for millions of other people. What makes your eyes super sensitive to fps?

Aliens wouldn't be interested in an already populated, resource depleted, polluted planet. Better choices available for those who can traverse space.

There is a difference between straight text and spreadsheets. I also like notes, but numbers are just easier to process mentally in tabular form. If they weren't spreadsheets would have next to no value.

If I use a product and find it handy and convenient I'll remember to use it next time. Likewise, if I use a product and find it obtuse and makes a simple task harder than it needs to be, I'll remember not to use it next time.