I would like to return one mental image please

Same here. I like wearing skirts and being pretty but I'm a cis guy. Due to my exploration of gender expression my friends are occasionally like "Are you sure you're cis?" And I'm just like "Yep, still a man unfortunately. I'd straight up be something else if I could but nope. Still a dude."

The main thing people are upset about isn't that OneDrive exists or that Microsoft is pushing it. It's that updates have made it so that OneDrive folder backup is automatically enabled without user permission. Backing up files to OneDrive without being asked to. That is a privacy nightmare.

I personally host my own copy of Nextcloud and use that for anything I need to sync or back up. I have a regular back up job that snapshots the Ceph cluster it uses for storage and copies it to my own NAS box here in the house, which is automatically replicated via a Nebula network (like TailScale or Zerotier but fully self-managed) to an identical NAS at my parents' house across town.

Truly some of the words ever written

Esperanto is gnomish

C U B E

Sounds like prime time for a virtual machine to me!

It did! And thanks to the fediverse, I'm responding to you via that very post, on a completely separate Lemmy instance: https://programming.dev/post/4224624

"You're having fun wrong"

http* status code*?

Well, they did it because they're for profit companies looking to wring money out of people's interactions. Lemmy is open source and, by nature, publicly and readily available to whatever observers want to federate. It would be dead simple to create an activitypub server that does nothing but listen and save a copy of everything everyone ever said or posted (at least, those you get it to federate with).

To be fair, many of those problems are things you can mitigate by picking the right vendor and staying away from anything that needs to phone home or use the internet

What's stopping the company from just updating the software

The fact that I buy zwave stuff designed never to connects to the internet

And you can't host your own servers either

Home Assistant says otherwise