Ah yeah, that can certainly be a bitch. I don’t remember what server I was trying to get port forwarded and my God awful ISP’s hardware all but prevents you from doing things the conventional way.

Just out of curiosity, what was the issue that made you throw in the towel? Was it a really specific setup you’re trying to build for a specific use case or something? I don’t have a lot of knowledge, but I can’t think of anything that would come up during a simple home server setup that would require you to completely change your approach unless you were doing some advanced custom stuff as a first go

I see, I’ve seen the meme used to unironically call people stupid, but in your case you’re using it more as “people are pretending to be stupid and saying it’s too hard”.

I wasn’t trying to overthink, just to understand what you were going for. Sorry to those who I offended and felt the need to downvote. Lmao.

I have Amazon prime, so I get access to Prime Video.

My family phone plan comes with a Free™ Netflix account per line.

As a student, my Spotify account gives me access to Hulu.

I can use all of these services at zero additional cost to myself and I still steal acquire it through different legal avenues. It takes an extra 2 minutes to make sure that I have it forever and that it’ll be easily accessible.

Does the meme not imply that people are smart enough to know how to use LLMs, but not smart enough to know how to use apps like signal?

I’m saying that people are smart enough to know how to use them. But when you don’t know anybody else who uses them, it doesn’t matter if you know how to use it, or even if you really want to, you can’t because nobody else does. (Which makes the “with no downsides” part of your meme a bit untrue - I’d definitely consider not being able to talk to a majority of people a downside)

It’d be like if you made the bottom panel, “users when asked to order directly from the manufacturer instead of supporting Amazon.” People know how to do it, but… nobody cares.

It isn’t really a question of ability to install the app. Anybody can do that. The difficult part is convincing anyone you want to talk to to also use it as well.

I just started work for a small company with a bunch of service techs flying around the country sending proprietary company information back and forth all day. Perfect application for something like Signal, but the owner is an Apple fanatic, so everyone carries iPhones and uses iMessage.

Thank God you were here to clarify. Here I was thinking people used to actually float around and get fired from bows. I wonder if the OP realizes that they’ve posted false information.