Grouchy

Good question.

There's always options.

• Refuse to use the applications and consult with the school board with your concerns. Involve other parents and start a movement.
• Use a different local school system. Is there a local private school that's better?
• Home schooling is another option.

I'm not saying any of those are easy options. In fact, you may have no good options today. But you don't need to stay that way forever. Explore what options you could have next year, or the year after. What can you work toward?

At the end of the day, the more everybody gives in and allows the abuse to happen, the move it will be normalized and accepted. If you don't like what is happening, then make changes in what you accept in your life.

I use Koel. https://koel.dev/

Install it at a host of your choice and access it in a web browser or with mobile apps.

I hear your frustration, but there are other options. They won't necessarily be the same, or perhaps equivalent in every way, but they do exist. You don't have to use the same corporations over and over again.

Add some memory and hard drives and slap TrueNas or Unraid on it.

That bad?

Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can't imagine what the recent versions are like.

Check the database pool_size variable in the Lemmy configuration.

Wallabag might work.

Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.

You're not alone, but even people who claim to want privacy are typically unwilling to stop using the very things that violate their privacy. I suspect that until that changes on a mass scale, the expectation that you should give up your data will remain.

Conversations, Cheogram, Dino are the ones I've used.

Nope. It's public. Assume everybody has a copy of everything sent over ActivityPub.