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What real world improvement has owning your data made to you besides increasing the friction for a lot of things?

• xethos 7mo ago
  Self-hosting UnifiedPush / ntfy drops FCM / Google Play Services as a requirement, extending the usable life of my phone pretty dramatically; the better battery life I get is just a bonus. Apps drop from RAM less-frequently. The series I'm watching doesn't drop from Netflix. Nor do I juggle which services have seasons 1-3, and 5, and have to play the subscribe'n'cancel dance to watch the full series. I never deal with radio-edits or censored curse words in music. When I pull up an album, it will be the proper album, not the smeared or changed swear words. This exact issue is what pushed me off Google Play Music.
• olyjohn 7mo ago
  What real world improvement has been made by allowing your data to be mined?
  • JKCalhoun 7mo ago
    Keeping my photos in Apple's cloud? Peace of mind in case my house burns down, ha ha.
    • DemiGuru 7mo ago
      I use offsite backups for that very scenario - From nextcloud (private) to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.