I administer a tenant today that has given me plenty of understanding.

You’d never be able to tell. If this is true your “understanding” doesn’t show but I’ve seen some very dysfunctional organizations so I wouldn’t be surprised.

I am aware of telemetry, yes.

Even if we ignore your continued conflation of Word and Microsoft 365, I suspect you have nothing to support your assertion that Word transmits the content of your document files to Microsoft.

Realistically this whole exchange is moot. A medical providers use of patient data management software in no way constitutes a “release” of data to that software provider as the person I originally replied to seemed to think.

Perhaps you’ll have an opportunity to administer a tenant someday and that’ll give you a better understanding.

So I am not being willfully ignorant. I work with both daily.

Then you’re just being ignorant.

O365, which is actually Microsoft 365 now, is a suite of productivity software as well as collaboration and cloud-based services.

Word is a word processing program. They are not the same and use of Word does not equate to O365.

You should know this. Just like you should know that a business using a piece of software, such as a medical facility using Epic’s patient data management tools, does not equate to patient data being “released” to Epic.

Since you seem to be struggling with the concept perhaps a different example would be easier for you?

Just because you get an MRI doesn’t mean the data collected for the MRI is “released” to GE.

I want to show some love to B&H Photo. They’re one of my go to’s specifically for tech stuff.

I feel like people give up on in store if they can’t find it at a big box store and go to the online equivalent of a big box store (Amazon).

Anybody who puts in a little effort should be able to find a specialty store either in person or online.

I wasn’t having a discussion with them or you however when you present incorrect information or are intentionally obtuse I will call it out.

If you want to engage me on the original topic I can happily explain both how the concept that a medical provider is “releasing” data to a software vendor is wrong and how equating O365 and Word is wrong.

I imagine you’re too busy finding ways to be offended on someone else’s behalf and making light of recent terrorist acts though.

It does, your willful misinterpretation doesn’t change that.

I looked through your post history, you seem to have at least enough technical aptitude to understand that.

released to companies like mychart

What does this mean? MyChart is a software solution used by many medical providers. They don’t “release” medical information to them.

This would be like thinking someone using Office on their computer is “releasing” documents they create to Microsoft.

I totally agree and understand the use case. That plays into that more in depth type of self hosting most here do. All I have is storage via Synology, and Pi-hole, smart home controls and a media server in separate containers.

My use case is strictly QoL improvements that my wife would either just live without or switch to a more conventional, easy to use setup for her.

I don’t self host to the extent many here seem too but I have had the same thought and joked with my wife about it.

Ultimately everything I’ve setup I’ve done in part because it’s my hobby and it interests me. When I’m gone my family will revert to whatever they’d normally be doing without me, because they don’t have interest in it like I do.

Thank you for the response. I totally see where you’re coming from on the non-binary part, and I haven’t gotten to S3E08 in ST:D so I’ll have to keep this in mind.

As far as Raffi and Seven, they felt like extraneous characters after season 2 in general and I felt like Picard dragged the further I got into the series.

This is what it is for me. I’m blind in one eye and wear glasses because I’m near sighted with astigmatism in the other.

It’s really hard for me to tell the difference and most of my library is 1080 or 720 because it mostly looks the same to me. I don’t want to give up the extra storage Ford 4k files.

Best case would be if we didnt even raise an eyebrow on seeing a LGBT+ character

This is what I’ve liked about Discovery in particular. It feels to me like it’s just organic and normal. They don’t highlight or make a spectacle of the LGBT+ characters’ gender/identity and it’s just there, normal and regular, just like in real life.

Seems like your problem is that it’s normalized in the new shows and not being made to be a spectacle.

I’d love examples of how the story of the newer shows has progressive ideas “glued onto them” and how representation could be better done.

I feel like often criticism of how representation is done in media is really just veiled criticism that it’s normalized in the show.

It’s like representation should only be blatant and pandering (so it can be called woke by the same people) or so far in the background it’s easy to ignore it or not catch it if you’re not who’s being represented.

I love that it’s just business as usual in these shows and the representation is organic, because that’s real life.

I’d say it’s not even woke, it’s an ideal. The Federation is symbolic of a utopian society, something that could be achieved through cooperation and tolerance and understanding.

I really think this is well demonstrated in the second season of Picard when they end up in 2024. It’s very subtle but well done how the characters react to a world with massive suffering and social issues compared to what they’re accustomed to in the Federation.

Speaking only for my own experience, my exposure was with TNG as a kid before streaming and everything. It was always on in syndication daytime and late night and it was more interesting to me than other choices.

I didn’t know or understand anything about the message of the series. The more recent movies didn’t really highlight it for me at all either.

Now, however, we watched all of Strange New Worlds, we’re halfway through Discovery and just finished Picard and in retrospect it’s obvious that it’s always been a core part of the show.

Without the prior exposure and context? It might seem a little heavy handed but anybody who would consider it “woke” or too PC is likely a hard-right conservative, not a Trekkie.