Yeah, only to say "follow me on reddit" at the end.
jjlinux
joined 1 year ago
Dude, it's all good. I doubt anyone has entirely removed intrusion from their lives. I've been the nut in my family, friends and work environments (not complaining, I actually love being that person) on privacy and cybersecurity. I still keep my Gmail account, the one I used to buy all my movies when I thought Google wasn't evil. My kids love using the Lenovo Google Assistant screens. I have 2 Chromecast with Google TV with the account I mentioned (my TVs do not connect to the internet). I play on my PS5 with my account and use my credit card (none of that temp credit card or cash or crypto), but I haven't used my PayPal in years (but still have it). I buy shit on Amazon (it's so convenient).
The point being, do what you can to safeguard your privacy as much as possible, as long as it does not affect your mental health. You need Facebook for whatever reason? You can minimize the invasion, and still use it. (Full disclosure, I fucking hate Meta, so I don't use any of its platforms, or even their open source language model). I'm on GrapheneOS in my phone, use Linux exclusively in my personal life, but I'm picking up a surface pro 11th Gen for work this Friday. I need my job, everything is windows based, and it's just getting harder to use Ms shit from Linux effectively. So, I use Windows. I have a good job, get paid well, so, I have to decide if that's worth some of my privacy.
Live life man, enjoy, be happy, then worry about the rest.
This is a pretty nice initiative. Thanks for sharing.
That's not a privacy win for anyone. What this is is a marketing win for Crapple and Google.
I get what you say about Obsidian just falling off of the face of the earth, but it is just that, markdown, so you can migrate it to any MD based notes app, like Joplin.
Now, I don't think those meet the nice UX requirement.
Wao. What's with the "edu-indoctrination"?
You are a superhero, one of the likes we rarely see.
God bless you, your work has returned some hope on humanity for many of us.
That's a first step. He'll soon hate Google and move to GrapheneOS and start self-hosting. No, wait, that was me. Never mind.