’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi Lykke til, eller hvordan som helst man staver det på dansk! (Men seriøst, jeg håper det går bra og lett, hvis noe slik som "lett" er mulig i denne sammenhengen.)
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@CiaraNi Just a suggestion, which of course may not fit your needs.
Consider if you could put your music, video, and data onto a home NAS, and securely stream it within the house but also outside the house.
No need for any cloud drive, and little need for a streaming service. Audio streaming already starves musicians, buy and rip CDs instead. Video streaming is enshittifying with less for more. No data for water-hoarding data centres.@BashStKid Thanks for the tips. I don't know what a NAS is, so I am probably not the right one for that. I don't audio stream anything. I listen to CDs and the radio. And I never watch TV or films, so no alternative to streaming needed there either. Only now that you mention this do I realise that my analogue (/dull/old-fashioned) habits must make it easier for me to make digital changes than others. I have fewer things to consider. I'm lucky there.
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@leanderlindahl @metteh Det lyder godt! Nul AI. The dream.
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With the current madman in the WH, it would be foolish for #Europe not to insist on digital independence.
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@CiaraNi Lykke til, eller hvordan som helst man staver det på dansk! (Men seriøst, jeg håper det går bra og lett, hvis noe slik som "lett" er mulig i denne sammenhengen.)
@timtfj Tusind tak
Da jeg besluttede mig for bare at flytte lidt efter lidt, i den tempo jeg selv kunne klare og på en måde, jeg selv kunne overskue, så blev det faktisk relativt set 'let'. I hvert fald ikke så overskueligt og overvældende end jeg troede hidtil, da jeg følte, at det var 'alt eller ingenting'. Tak for opbakningen! -
@EthicalProfessor @chris Agreed. Definitely.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi I am copying all of my 3Tb of pics from OneDrive to external SSDs...It turns out, download speeds are either capped or crippled as the regular speeds are 2-5Mb. But I have optical 1Gb link...Took me 3 days to download 400Gb. Still in progress
@locadeserta Ah this is familiar! Once I got my lovely shiny new SDD, I was startled to discover how sloooowly the process of downloading my images was. It's taking me weeks, bit by bit, to get through the still ongoing process. But it's good because it's made me make better choices about what files to keep.
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@CiaraNi been a long time.Linux user, so no M$ for me, but have recently de googled completely.
Tuta and Proton for mail
Ente for photos
Mega for general cloud storage@kcpoole Well done on already being deGoogled. I have bare minimum google on an Android phone, but still have some final steps to do. That'll have to wait until I have rid myself of Microsoft.
Mega for general cloud storage - a new name to me, thanks for mentioning. I must investigate.
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@mkj Thanks for the supportive words. Much appreciated. And yes, agreed - it can be counterproductive to be either an absolutist or a defeatist. That can apply to politics and the climate crisis as well as enshittification and big tech, I think.
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Why is no one asking these questions:
Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?
Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?
Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?
Why are politicians running away from AI issues?
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@CiaraNi I am inspired! I moved to Libre a few months ago & set up a Tuta account. I still have photos & calendar on iCloud though. It is a process
@SCampbell Agreed. It truly is a process. We were entangled by and in the Big Tech web for so many decades, it's not a surprise, I suppose, that it is not that simple to just walk away. Sounds like we're walking the same route - Libre and Tuta, and then the photos To Do. Good luck to us both, I think
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@CiaraNi Lovely! Good luck!
@rtn Thank you
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@lfzz That was exactly the reference I was going for
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Why is no one asking these questions:
Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?
Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?
Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?
Why are politicians running away from AI issues?
These are some good questions!
Are these rhetorical questions?
Or would you like me to have a go without blocking me thereafter? -
@gambolputte @CiaraNi @Tutanota indeed, I am thinking of making an account for my wife as well to start with, and start sharing between the two of us. Tuta to Tuta. It's slightly expensive to have two, and maybe later even more accounts, but it is such a relief to f. ex. finally feel safe to build a contact list to name just one thing.
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@CiaraNi @cbrankin@theforkiverse.com Good signal. Appreciated.
I'll install AntennaPod and see how it behaves under real use. Vivaldi is on my list already; curious whether it outperforms Brave. The noai DuckDuckGo endpoint is new to me. Noted. Worth poking with a stick.
@Doomscroll @cbrankin@theforkiverse.com I randomly found AntennaPod after switching to F-Droid and it instantly became my favourite podcast app. I think https://noai.duckduckgo.com is worth a look, right enough, to get away from the constant AI.
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@Kerplunk Thanks for these tips
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@jwcph Oh that is really good to know. Mange tak. I couldn't find an entry point for NextCloud as a Just Make It Work non-tech end user. Great to have a provider name - thanks. I will look into a free trial account and take it from there. (That's how I moved to Tuta - the free account was so good and simple that I subscribed almost immediately.) Tak for hjælpen.
@CiaraNi I was in the exact same situation - I can't remember how I found The Good Cloud but it works & customer service works well, too
Held & lykke! -
’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi in case it's helpful to anyone, I finally managed to get my entire workflow to be open source software, and have listed it here:
https://johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/
