It would mean the server owner can almost certainly read everything. Though it may not be in plain text. It could be encrypted on the server. But the owner would need to have the keys to decrypt and read everything so it all works.

That’s part of my thinking. New cars aren’t average.

Edit:
With some research I found that car sales total market is about 70/30 used vs new. Taking that into account the new average is just over $32k, rather than $49k.

That’s your judgement of your food. It’s natural for you to have a number of biases to favor your own cooking. Most notably the 4 hours of effort it takes you.

But home cooking isn’t generally that. It’s the 20-40min one puts in right after getting home from work. Comparing your most intensive 4h hours of effort against something a restaurant cook does absent mindedly isn’t really a comparison. If they put in your effort you wouldn’t have a chance.

Cheeper sure. Not a chance it’s better in blind taste tests. That’s all confirmation bias from you putting in the effort to make it yourself. You can’t be an objective judge of your own food.

If your food were really that much better than everyone else’s you’d be able to make a fortune with your own restaurant. And if you enjoyed it, you might be happier doing that for work instead of whatever you currently do.

$1k/month for a car isn’t normal. That has to be substantially rounded up from the average. I just got a new EV. $450 payment, $110 insurance. Electricity costs me about $35 more. Even accounting for maintenance I couldn’t fudge the number to $675mo. To reach $1k you’d need a rather expensive vehicle.

But I do agree with the principle here. It would be nice to live in a walkable area where I don’t need a car.

You had me until “it tasts better”.
That’s entirely dependent on the cook. And very few home cooked meals are better than average restaurants. There’s a reason restaurants and professional cooks can make a living. If home cooking was so much better so often, nobody would bother going out to eat.

guests download the EVA AI app, create a customizable AI companion and join the cafe’s waitlist.

That’s a generous assumption that there will be a waitlist.

I need one hand free to collect the eggs

I’ve only got two hands. The basket is kind of necessary.

That B&W trailer looks amazing!
They should’ve had the guts to not even release a color version.

Totally agree with everything they said.
Disagree with the implied false dichotomy of NAS or Google Drive. There are other options. Proton drive is great for convenient file sharing.

That’s a family plan for 6 people.
It works out to $1.50/person/month.

That’s a common feeling. Frequently people are too proud to ask for help when needed. That’s one more way UBI is superior to qualified welfare programs.

Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn’t grow.

People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.

It’s just when people get used to a kind of thing being free, they feel like its impossible or stupid to pay for it. Even when those same people complain about how enshittification ruins everything, they refuse to directly pay instead.

Not even 100 subscribers.
But I was referring to the Fediverse in general. It won’t ever scale to a real global default social network, on the donations and the kindness of strangers.

If we don’t pay for it, then it’ll be paid for by adds.
Then we’re back to what we’re trying to get away from.
Communick or whatever, just pay. Even if it’s a donation.

I played with it. Had no problems. Worked fine.
Then realised it doesn’t do much for me personally. But it seems cool.

It’s not free. Servers and bandwidth cost money.
If you’re not paying, someone is being generous and paying for you.

No I don’t work there. But I have been paying for 2 years. And it’s the only way for the Fediverse to scale. Donations won’t get us to 100M users and beyond.

I’m happy with Communick. They offer Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, and Funkwhale for one subscription. Its worth paying for, because the Fediverse isn’t free.

It sounds like you still need to figure out what you want.
In the end where do you want to be? Do you want to keep the car permanently? Keep it then.
If you can only imagine another 4-5 years with it, that doesn’t seem worth worrying about, it’s a temporary placeholder until you find one you really like. If the $20K is useful to you right now, sell the car and take it. If you’d just roll it into the next car, make sure it’s the car you really want.

But that’s the point of view of someone who spent half a decade shopping for the car he wants to keep for at least two decades. If that’s not you, then sell it and just lease from now on.