Comment on Anon degoogles his Samsung

• teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not everyone has the possibility to self-host

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    • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      you can join public instances, and maybe even make them set it up for you.

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    • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

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      • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you’re paying for?

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  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn’t find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.

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    • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      all messages. and it works really well!

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just don’t communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don’t agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well evidently you’re not in charge of anyone’s healthcare: when you have a parent that has to be taken care of, you have to compromise if they’re not able to adapt

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d rather use SMS than sign my rights over to Meta. They can use that if they can use facebook or whatsapp.

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      • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You cannot attach medical prescriptions to SMS

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If they’re serious about talking to you, they’ll budge. Call their bluff.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Easy choice. No such nasty crAPP (pun intended) will touch my innocent phone. If they wouldn’t even install a safe(er) app for their kid, then that’s already enough communication.

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well life is all about what morals you decide to follow, I’ve evidently chosen the one where I’m handing over a small amount of privacy to be less of a pain in the ass to the people around me.
    And the main reasons are:

    1. elder parents I need to take care of
    2. people won’t listen to you if you are unreasonable with them

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t see what these points have to do with WhatsApp and co? You can’t take care of them if you don’t install some shitty app they decided to use? And they won’t listen to you if you don’t use the same app? Age is no sign of competence. One should listen to the one more competent in discussed matter. No matter the age or whatever else attribute.

      Besides…it’s not really just “a small amount of privacy”. You’re on Lemmy, so I just assume you somehow know better.

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