To alleviate your concerns, I have a public facing Jellyfin instance hosted on a subdomain for almost a year now. So far zero pwns or bot activity.

Give a stochastic text generator to physics. What can go wrong.

I see you are still in the stochastic parrot phase.

In a way yes that’s how enterprise endpoint software works.

I’ve avoided anything that requires “npm install”, and life is still quite good.

From a user’s PoV. Gmail is awesome. Super low noise and zero phishing emails.

From your PoV maybe. I would be restless knowing that I may be silently losing important emails because they triggered some blackbox filter in such a way that they didn't even end up in my spam box...

I regularly get spam/phishing emails slipping through the cracks.

If you think this is egregious wait till you experience Apple products.

Can you elaborate?

-iOS by default uploads your entire Photo album to iCloud.

-iOS by default backs up all app resources to iCloud (so cloud native apps like Google Drive also gets backed up). You have to explicitly disable this backup app by app.

-Save to.. dialog on iOS defaults and resets to saving to iCloud’s “Downloads” directory.

-On MacOS, everything on the Desktop directory is synced to iCloud. You cannot delete the iCloud copy of files without also (it automatically) deleting the local copy.

-When you (very very easily) run out of iCloud storage (paltry 5GB), they made sure you know via nagging notifications, a dedicated header in Settings. Then they start warning you your iPhone is not getting backed up every now and then.

-They also don’t provide a way to use the same backup interface to make backups locally. You MUST use iCloud for backups.

I tolerate Apple products because the alternatives are worse (for now)

- false (you have to opt in)

- false (it depends on the app)

- depends on your cloud settings

- if you opt in, yes

- well if your storage is full, you kind of need to know

- they do, it's called time machine. you need a local disk for that.

I'm not sure if you even use any Apple products. I recently reset my iPhone and started from scratch (because of another system storage bloat issue) and THOSE WERE THE DEFAULTS, I HAD TO TURN EVERYTHING OFF MANUALLY. It didn't even ask.

> time machine

Oh great, let's get a dedicated, proprietary device just to store MY binary blobs. I'm not even sure if Timemachine supports exactly the features offered by iCloud. I cannot for example, browse photos backed up in Timemachine in the Photos app just like with iCloud.

> Oh great, let's get a dedicated, proprietary device just to store MY binary blobs.

Time Machine is (was?) mostly a macOS Sparse Bundle folder accessed over SMB. Many consumer NASes support Time Machine.

They started out good and then cranked the engagement trap to the max when they realize value of a captive audience.

Yeah ideal employee indeed. Learning things at home to add value to the employer.

But the skill and experience stick with you for lifetime.

No