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4 days agohttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
Relevant XKCD;
I feel that it is closer to the fact that the communities forgot most beginners are completely new to this in general. They might not even know what exactly a ‘browser’ is, much less cookies and stuff.
Hence when we try to spoonfeed them information, it comes off as overwhelming and forced.
Agree that there are some extremist, but they mostly act in good faith tbh.
Another thing I noticed is there are more preachers of ‘how’ than ‘why’. Having a beginner go down the route of privacy without giving them a purpose to do so is quite off-putting.
For me personally, I split up my data into different cloud storage solutions depending on the sensitivity of the data, and frequency of access on the data.
For stuff I need quick access to, I use cryptomator with MEGA. MEGA has a pretty decent Linux App, but recommend using with cryptomancer or any sync-friendly encryption tool so that they can’t read the data.
For stuff I infrequently access, I personally just use Proton Drive. Plan to fully switch to using them once they have a functional Linux desktop application that supports syncing.
For more sensitive stuff like SSH Keys or documents that might contain my sensitive personal information, I personally just use VeraCrypt and store the encrypted file on a thumb drive, backing it up to another thumb drive every week.
While self-hosted solutions are pretty amazing, keep in mind that it consumes time since you do need to maintain it after the setup as well. And if you do expose it to the public internet, you would have to maintain the security too.