Andy Valencia @vandys@mastodon.sdf.org
Bastille Day! Just closed my Google account. They started good, and just got worse. And worse. And worse. Time to go, and now I'm gone!
Why have cloud solutions been equated with handing your data to a corporation? A server at Scaleway starts at 3eur/month; linode has'em for $5/month. All the benefits of the cloud, and the data _remains yours_.
A set of values which feels very right to me: https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-avoid-the-frightful-5-big-tech-corporations/
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I also moved to LineageOS minus Gapps on Android. Turns out not running Gapps really improves battery life, so my phone ends the day at around 50% now instead of 15%.
Also F-Droid apps are so good, and ask for fewer creepy permissions than Google Play apps do!
Sometimes I miss the simplicity of using a Google Chromebook. But Chromebooks seem to like to fall apart within a year or two, and of course Google is a little too scary to trust these days.
I've moved to a refurbished Thinkpad running Devuan. It's way more durable than my old Chromebook, and has way less Google! Yay.
Woohoo! Just got my $50 Lenovo Ideapad running w. Palemoon browser. Long-lived tech == green.
Oh, and a later item on Mozilla's progress https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/31/firefox-with-ads-on-new-tab-page/
Welcome to your Sourceforge moment, Mozilla. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-sponsored-content-pocket-suggestions
Just re-launched my personal web site https://elektrubadur.se/ with some new cool features:
* No JavaScript.
* No cookies.
* No comments.
If for some reason you want to comment on something there you can for instance discuss it on here. For now it's mostly my photos though, so not much to discuss. Maybe I'll start writing a bit on technical subjects there, we'll see.
Thanks, SMJ!
