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I'm curious. I'm considering a move away from cloud - especially with the political climates in the US now. If you've never made the leap to cloud, why? If you've moved to cloud, but moved back off cloud - what was your…

Two years ago, I submitted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558737 which turned up some interesting comments. I thought I'd revisit this topic now that it's been almost two years. # Applications, Operating…

Basically, the question in the title. Are you rocking a single, dual, or triple monitor setup with your computer? What else do you like about having X number of monitors in front of you?

I see git as a pretty popular way to version control your code, and to an extent, your documentation. For my code, I think it's great. For people with other types of documents, is git still ideal? I find git a bit…

Such as Notion, Roam, OneNote, etc? Basically any of the services that don't offer any type of end-to-end encryption. Among those that DO, how comfortable do you feel about knowing that they could theoretically read…

As the title says, what do you do for online privacy? Obviously, most of us aren't on air-gapped servers and avoiding all forms of online interactions. To what extent do you go to protect your privacy online? What are…

One of the most common answers when asked about "How can I achieve more privacy and security with my OS?" is to switch to FOSS/Linux. The biggest issues I have is that, when you search for privacy oriented Linux distros…

I see a lot of FUD and fearmongering around privacy invasions via Windows 11 (and 10, as well). Is this unfounded, or overblown? I'm getting more and more concerned that our private data is no longer private, or even…