Not the OP, but I alternate between self-hosted instances of Outline (https://www.getoutline.com/) and Nextcloud (with Collabora) for this. Outline I actually like better than Google Docs for most things. Nextcloud is a little rough, but it has change tracking, which I need sometimes.

I’ve also seen a lot of people using Cryptpad recently, which I think wraps OnlyOffice.

Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.

Didn't know about that. Thanks.

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

They’re also all software developers, right?

Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.

I was interested so I looked up some numbers: $0.3 per kwh in California * .005Gb mp3 (3m at 128kbps) mp3 * .06 kwh/Gb for internet traffic = .00009 dollars in energy to sling 1 song to your device. Heavy margin bands there for the traffic estimate especially, but Spotify probably has a 95%+ cache hit rate so I think they would struggle to come out worse than the physical disc.

They’re selling your precise location to data brokers that sell it to the police (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admi...) so you can get a deal on french fries that are killing you. This is no way to live.

I hate to tell you, but they already know your location because they know you picked up your food at that McDonald's. They don't need the app for that.

The app isn't tracking your location except between ordering your food and picking it up. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, your Location privacy settings in iOS ensure that.

That’s how I used Instagram in the first half of the 2010s. It seemed like the app was designed for that use case back then. Now it seems like it’s designed primarily for watching ads, so I text my friends instead.

I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy.

I think most people do care about privacy, but they're usually powerless to defend it.

The average Facebook user.. does... trust Facebook, enough to use it. That's why Facebook is a multi-billion-dollar company.

Seriously, sometimes I wonder if people on this site have ever interacted with people outside of tech.

Yeah I think you are right, more and more people are becoming very sensitive to this, and I am, too, personally. But as I wrote in a parent comment, I'd rather get it right later than wrong now. It's a big thing to misrepresent.

Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.

It's pretty easy and should be best practice to add a bit of code that checks if you successfully downloaded the library from the CDN and falls back to grabbing it from your server if it failed.