MentalEdge

This is a very, very bad idea.

SSDs are permanent flash storage, yes, but that doesn’t mean you can leave them unpowered for extended periods of time.

Without a refresh, electrons can and do leak out of the charge traps that store the ones and zeroes. Depending on the exact NAND used, the data could start going corrupt within a year or so.

HDDs suffer the same problem, though less so. They can go several years, possibly a decade, but you’d still be risking the data on the drive but letting it sit unpowered for an extended time.

For the “cold storage” approach you should really be using something that’s designed to retain data in such conditions, like optical media, or tape drives.

Like the other guy said, there’s no immediate need to delete the account. And someone else wont be able to pick the address up after you, if you do.

I’ll probably leave google eventually, as well, but I don’t intend to delete my account. The process of using google services less and less has been ongoing for years for me, and I will just use them less and less, until I no longer do at all.

Where email is concerned, I’ll just have whatever my new email is pull in my mail from gmail for a while, and as I receive email concerning various accounts to my gmail, that’s when I’ll go in and change them over to use my new address so the old inbox gets less and less mail.

Then, eventually, when I haven’t touched it for years, I might take the final step of actually deleting it. But probably not.

How the hell is someone elses data supposed to help identify your files?

If the data is encrypted, and the keys to decrypt it are gone, then so is the data.

Without the keys, the data may as well be all zeroes.

That’s not really how the comments on alternativeto work. They are relative.

If you got to spotifys page, it will list similar services, each with their own comments, and the comments under youtube music, for example, will be about how it compares to spotify.

So, to leave useful comments, you only have to know how a given piece of software compares to what you used before. You don’t comment on how a given thing compares to everything else, only to one thing at a time.

Then, as other people browse the alternatives, they can use those individual comparisons to navigate their way to what they need. Stuff like “this can’t replace that for this use-case, because reason, but it does this other stuff” is extremely useful when looking for something that does what you’re looking for.

So leave a new one.

Totally. I often go directly to it to find applications.

It’s how I found kdenlive, it’s how I found audiobookshelf, etc.

I’ve gone this route. Not for the faint of heart. If you’re not self-hosting savvy, but you know someone that hosts a server, absolutely sign up with them. Or use a local public server like pikaviestin.fi, which provides accounts for finnish citizens.

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But you DO act as if people won’t just bring over whatever they personally liked. As if there’s some debate to be had, and a kind of consensus to be reached about not doing so with stuff people like you arbitrarily consider “valueless”.

Even within your own framework of “value” can you really argue that something lots of people like, that doesn’t really cost anyone else anything, is somehow detrimental enough to oppose?

And who the fuck cares if it’s shallow? Positive online interaction is positive online interaction. How the hell do you come to the conclusion that having less of THAT would be an improvement?

Ok. So you’re saying your disillusionment should apply to everyone?

If you can’t have fun with it, no-one else should get to?

I was on Reddit for over a decade. Seeing people make posts to celebrate their anniversary for joining the platform was never stale.

Tolerating something a lot of people clearly have fun with costs you nothing, and trying to shut it down as “pointless” and “not fun” is such old man yelling “stop playing on the park lawn” type bullshit.

Yup, gone.

Why do you hate people having innocent fun? Do you enjoy walking up to people who are smiling, and explaining that their reasons for doing so are dumb?

You’re account is tagged as a bot. Is that intentional? It’s a checkbox in account settings.

I’d be very down to be able to subscribe to a couple select subs back there.

But I’d also be a bit disappointed because several Reddit communities have fediverse versions that are just nicer to be in, and I’m not so sure they’d survive if people could just go interact with the reddit equivalents via federation.

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I don’t understand.

You only use each passwords once? You never log in to things on a new device without the one on which you created the account on hand? You only ever need authentication on two devices?

I own half a dozen devices on which I might want to log into places, and on several occasions it has been extremely useful to be able to access my password database from a completely new device from anywhere in the world, with nothing but the memorized master credentials.

I don’t think you can argue that the advantages don’t exist, even if they aren’t useful to you personally.

I agree with all of that, I was just pointing out that “uploading all your passwords to someone else’s server” can be done in a way that isn’t silly. You’re preaching to the choir.

Though even then, the best way is for that server to be yours, not someone else’s. And it does come with advantages in terms of convenience.

and a customer service department that deals with users who have lost that

I’d not heard of the “mud puddle test” but I immediately thought that any provider that does that, is doing it wrong.

Unless there’s an exploit of which I’m unaware, my self-hosted solutions pass the mud puddle test.

Do you mean OTP?

I self-host vaultwarden, and I have that. I think it’s a paid feature if not self-hosting?