
ThillyGooth
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This sounds about right. My parents only use their browsers. They literally do not use any applications outside of the browser. They would be just fine on Linux but change is scary and everything just works.
Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let’s Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I’ve worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let’s Encrypt.
Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.
https://mxroute.com/ or https://www.fastmail.com/
I picked up a cheap lifetime account on mxroute a while back and have been pretty happy with it.
Rsync is what you’re after, especially if you’re moving large files. I regularly transfer hundreds of gb using rsync and it’s great.
I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.