• pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      I still haven’t found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

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          3 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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            4 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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              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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                It’s a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It’s when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it’s more like 3-4€.

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        3 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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          3 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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            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.