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And here’s the reason why layman should not: they’re much more likely to make that one wrong move and suffer irrecoverable data loss than some faceless corporation selling their data.

At the end of the day, those of us who are technical enough will take the risk and learn, but for vast majority of the people, it is and will continue to remain as a non starter for the foreseeable future.

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Not to mention, few people have the time, skill, money, and energy to do it. They’re happy to outsource in exchange for money and/or data.

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There are actually easy solutions out there. For example CasaOS, it’s a oneliner and you get a docker orchestration with an app-store and built-in file and smb management. I bet even non technicals could use this.

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The “layman” should fall back to old ways. Think local photo management with maybe some backup software

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So just because they don’t know technology like you do, they should be left behind the times instead of taking advantage of advancements? A bit elitist and gate keeping there, don’t you think?

Everyone have their own choices to make, and for most, they’ve already decided they’d rather benefit from advancements than care about what you care about.

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I think they should do what they know. Asking them to try to learn new things when they don’t enjoy it is not fun

With that being said, if they have the drive to spend time on it let them

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