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  • What’s your view on people who don’t adopt, including yourself if you can justify it?

    My view is neutral to positive, because I would be a horrible parent who would be in misery if I were to raise a kid in the capacity of a parent.

    We’ve all met people of whom we have rightfully thought, “That person should never have been a parent.” I’m another one of the many. I can barely get myself to do my own chores as someone living alone; what makes you think I’d be competent at healthily raising an entire other human being?

    I’m surprised that this one person influenced you that much. It should be common sense that the only people who should be parents (by adoption or otherwise) are those with both a burning desire to be parents and a healthy understanding of autonomy.




  • Flagstaff@programming.devtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDuckDuckGo Gone Rogue
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    They’ve helped me figure out some nested spreadsheet formulas that were pretty complicated to me.

    What typically happens is that they mess up, but their malfunctioning code still has something in it that I hadn’t considered, which leads me in the right direction. They have their place in terms of helpfulness when you can’t or don’t want to wait for someone.






  • Mail and calendar I’m still trying to figure out. VPN you don’t need as long as you use HTTPS everywhere.

    password manager

    KeePassXC + KeePassDX

    documents

    Collabora Office + LibreOffice

    What are the pros and cons relative to proton?

    Pros: free, open source, and 100% offline with no intermediary company. Your file security is entirely in your own hands.

    Cons: you must devise your own cross-device sync system. I use Syncthing + Syncthing-Fork.

    What are the mobile apps like?

    Collabora is currently just bad lol. It’s best reserved for really simple edits, if not just for viewing, with all major changes made on a desktop/laptop computer. KeePassDX isn’t terrible but it can’t view all the fields that the KeePassXC desktop platform can, and getting it to take PIN instead of password for vault-unlocking is really convoluted (although you’d only have to do it once).

    What assurances do you have they won’t go full proton in the future?

    They’re all open-source so anyone dissatisfied with the direction that the maintainers go in can fork them at any time.