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I think GP's issue is not lack of technical solutions but that most OSs and BigTech are increasingly user hostile to extract more revenue. I alsobfind it conce

I think GP's issue is not lack of technical solutions but that most OSs and BigTech are increasingly user hostile to extract more revenue. I alsobfind it concerning that they are succeding. We now have whole chunks of the world's demographic that don't even know it doesn't have to be that way.

KyeRussell 4y ago
Expecting that the typical user wants to use a streaming service, and deprioritising development of tools/components that target other workflows, is not user-hostile. It is clearly the way things are, and the nerds are being dragged kicking and screaming.
- aikinai 4y ago
  Amen. I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case. I'm probably one of the last 1,000 people still using Apple Home Sharing, but honestly I can't even believe it's still working. There must be someone on the inside that uses it at home and keeps fixing it whenever the architecture shifts around it.
  - onlycoffee 4y ago
    > I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case. We are now the Eloi and mass-market companies are the Morlocks.
  - brokenmachine 4y ago
    Stay strong brother. I still use and prefer local-everything. There's dozens of us! Dozens!
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  I completely disagree: - Removing the concept of files, folders, and folder paths - Removing the concept of URLs and URL resolution - Saving files directly to a cloud based storage without local offline representation This is not deprioritising, this actively removing features and being hostile. More worrying is how exceedingly fragile all of this is. One company bankrupcy, one government embargo, one anti-government protest in an opressive regime and all of your online self is gone.

KyeRussell 4y ago

Expecting that the typical user wants to use a streaming service, and deprioritising development of tools/components that target other workflows, is not user-hostile. It is clearly the way things are, and the nerds are being dragged kicking and screaming.

aikinai 4y ago
Amen. I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case. I'm probably one of the last 1,000 people still using Apple Home Sharing, but honestly I can't even believe it's still working. There must be someone on the inside that uses it at home and keeps fixing it whenever the architecture shifts around it.
- onlycoffee 4y ago
  > I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case. We are now the Eloi and mass-market companies are the Morlocks.
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  Stay strong brother. I still use and prefer local-everything. There's dozens of us! Dozens!
DoingIsLearning 4y ago
I completely disagree: - Removing the concept of files, folders, and folder paths - Removing the concept of URLs and URL resolution - Saving files directly to a cloud based storage without local offline representation This is not deprioritising, this actively removing features and being hostile. More worrying is how exceedingly fragile all of this is. One company bankrupcy, one government embargo, one anti-government protest in an opressive regime and all of your online self is gone.