For me, I personally just run my workplace stuff in a VM (Debian 12) using KVM.

For excel desktop, OnlyOffice has a Desktop application that you can use to edit local files, which has pretty good compatibility with Microsoft products.

+1 to this; Time spent on your setup is an important factor too.

The more important your data is, the more time you are going to need to spend maintaining your system to ensure security, backups and fail-overs. Not everyone has luxurious amount of time to spend on their home-lab everyday.

Well, not wrong that it solves the problem, but with data breaches happening frequently, I wouldn’t want to repeat 1 single password for all services lol.

Even if companies hash passwords, it’s still a gamble whether they are using an up-to-date hash algorithm (or if they do even hash it, lol). Plus, generally best to avoid exposing passwords, hashed or not, in the first place.

Ngl, feel like his tier list is based on usability while avoiding big tech.

Tbh even if this tierlist is not the best or great, it still is “good enough”. Plus the most important thing is to get tons of people interested.

I rather have “good enough” tier list that reaches to millions of people, then have a perfect tierlist that only reaches out to less than a dozen people.

Because amongst the millions of people who are interested, thousands of them will do their own research into privacy and dig deeper into it.

Plus right now, the biggest weakness of privacy is the fact that our community is too small to make an impact.

Having someone give this much outreach and influence to attract attention towards privacy is a good thing. (well, as long as their advice are on the positive end of the spectrum, and pewdiepie’s advise surely is, even if its not perfect)

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.

Agree, comes down to risk acceptance honestly.

I accepted the risk that comes with it. Same with some other aliases on equally hazardous commands.

I replaced rm with trash-put, just in case I realize I need some files that I removed down the line.

alias rm='trash-put'

Official author don’t recommend it due to different semantics. But honestly for my own personal use case its fine for me.

Also I like to alias xclip:

alias clippy='xclip -selection clipboard'

# cat things.txt | clippy

https://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.