You are just learned the price of free.

said one who immediately propoused me to use a self-hosted model. For free. that is. Whist on lemmy which is a free forum as well.

Are you an Idiot or what?

You can’t pretend-close it and still have that service work.

indeed, a service on a port would no longer properly work. However, pretending that an open port is closed is possible the same way when pretending that’s open

No!

how so?

1. backups, non-incremental ones
2. prevent others from viewing information that may be sensitive
3. encrypted files and directories will then be copied over to external drives and third-party servers

“I don’t want to encypt them in-place because I’ll be uploading them onto a server, copying them on an external drive.”

I don’t want to encypt them in-place because I’ll be uploading them onto a server, copying them on an external drive.