turtledove

Would you say that the install and maintenance load for both systems (Dropbox vs packages containers) is the same?

Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features.

I'm not saying the self hosted stack is bad, and in fact it's probably better in many ways. But it doesn't have the same feature set if you consider usability a feature, imo.

Sorry, "would be super useful" be "would have helped me".

Maybe those have different meanings to you? They mean more or less the same to me?

Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke?

And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn't post.

Asking a non technical person to run and maintain docker containers is absurd.

I can install drop box in under ten minutes. I don't have to manage security patches for all the binaries in the stack. My data is available in network edge locations close to me or the people I share it with. I can turn dollars into more storage very easily. I don't have to configure user permissions and groups in more than one place.

Also, what you described is not "sftp + cvs + vps" ;D

Are those features of sftp? It cvs? Or the vps provider?

Or are you saying, "well, with a completely different stack I can get closer to feature parity"?

Which definitely won't happen with a cheap VPS provider. /s

People click the upvote button at a sufficient velocity.