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Does your family is also against your privacy means? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As weird as the title sounds, my family really dislikes me using Tuta and not Gmail. Is your family also like this?

"Come on, Sarah, can't you just be normal and use Gmail like everyone?"

my mom, scolding me.

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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Normies find it triggering if things take extra steps or aren't proceeding in the normal way they expect.

My family (and wife especially) get triggered......."why can't we just be normal and use Netflix, why do we have to tolerate any buffering on your Jellyfin thing. What was the email address you use again? Why don't you just use WhatsApp like everyone else, no one uses this Signal nonsense. I'm sending you photos on Google Photos or WhatsApp, why should I have to figure out adding them to you NAS drop folder. What is this MailBox nonsense, why don't you just share your calendar from google calendar".

A lot of tech tools are social tools. Other people don't want to think about this stuff. They don't care about stuff that doesnt affect them. They don't care about my FreshRSS feeds, that doesnt affect them. But they do care that I can't send them photos on Google Photos.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And sometimes regular people want things to work with minimal friction.

why can't we just be normal and use Netflix, why do we have to tolerate any buffering on your Jellyfin thing

I’ve run Jellyfin and I get this; you must not have something serious correctly, your bandwidth sucks, or it’s a bug in Jellyfin. Either way, that’s friction.

I'm sending you photos on Google Photos or WhatsApp, why should I have to figure out adding them to you NAS drop folder.

Again, friction. Google Photos and WhatsApp is easy. I guarantee you’ve setup something that you think is cool but is just a PITA.

I’d be like if a mechanic setup this car so that everything was opposite to make it difficult to steal; gas on the left and brake on the right, turn signal on the left, etc etc. sure he thinks it’s cool and when he drives it it’s fine, but it’s a PITA for anyone else to drive his car. And he asks people to drive his car constantly to show them how cool it is because of all the work he put into it.

And don’t call people “normies”. You sound like you live in you mom’s basement when you say that.

Edit: Looks like I struck a nerve.