Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2024 05:42:15 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On 09 May 2024 12:12:21 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

And if an update goes wrong and locks you out of your system, it also
locks you out of those preferences. If you can fix the system and restore
everything, that's fine. A lot of us prefer to keep it on the cloud in
case of a disaster, or simply because we want to have access to the same
data through a variety of computers.

There are ways to access the data on a Linux server from a variety of
computers, but the one thing I find to be a real PITA is accessing such
data from a phone. There just don't seem to be apps that make it easy
to access files over protocols like SFTP and still work today after
years of neglect.