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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I started my journey to degoogle myself very recently. I’m still to make the transition from Google stuff, but for now I treat it two fold.

    1. I treat it as a side hobby - I know it would be more convenient to just stay under the Google umbrella, but I’m interested in the state of FOSS and how far you can replicate gtools. I’m waiting for my Synology NAS drive and hopefully this will cover most of my needs.
    2. A personal statement/protest against greedy companies - I know that cutting access to some of my data (I’m not disillusioned - I know they still have a lot of my data and they will still have access to some) won’t make a difference, but by switching from WhatsApp to Signal, I created a conversation among my friends and family. They became a bit more aware of the current situation. Same with switching from Reddit to Lemmy. The further I travel on my path, the more people around me are interested in their own privacy.

    So if you are realistic about it, as you are judging from your post, I would say it’s worth - even if just as a middle finger to the big, privacy violating conglomerates. We shouldn’t just roll over and give up our personal lives.

    Also, you will have full deniability of any future repercussions of people allowing big corpos doing with their data whatever they want.




  • “the staff tried to defibrillate her heart; at that point several people[who?] saw an oily sheen covering Ramirez’s body, and some noticed a fruity, garlic-like odor that they thought was coming from her mouth. Registered nurse Susan Kane drew blood from Ramirez’s arm and noticed an ammonia-like smell coming from the tube”

    Holy smokes, imagine being that toxic that even your blood stinks O.O