There is a world of difference between what is “conceptually basic” and what the practical reality is. The tools aren’t open source because there’s a lot of secret sauce the vendors want to keep secret. The OSS development efforts are making progress, but it’s a long, slow, difficult slog.

More like “if your job sucks try to get a better job instead of committing crimes to make some extra cash” but you do you bro.

In some cases yes, but I don’t see that here. Compromises morals out of desperation (to me, anyway) manifest more along the lines of stealing food to feed your family or wage theft perhaps.

Fair point, the person I replied to didn’t explicitly say it was okay or that they said they felt it was ok. I took their comment as a kind of indirect victim blaming, similar to how you hear people say things like “I wonder if that would have happened if she was wearing something more conservative” — that’s a bad assumption on my part, and I appreciate your calling me out on it.

Wtf, nobody is making him work at Lyft. “I am faking damage to my vehicle and charging riders false fees to supplement my income because my wage is crap.” is not acceptable. What a terrible take.

Syncthing (distributed folder sharing including “keep x copies of each file”) and duplicity (gpg-encrypted, incremental backup anywhere) are your friends.

Been using them for a very, very long time. A++ open source, cross-platform solutions.