No matter how much I try to rationalize, my conscience will no longer allow me to try to justify personally buying and using computers running Windows 11 or MacOS, phones running iOS or “Googled” Android, or using products and services provided by other Big Tech companies.
I have seen what these companies do and what they are capable of. Much good has been done and can be done with the technologies they provide, but giving up our freedom to choose is not going to end well for us.
Free alternatives are generally less convenient and you have to be your own tech support or rely on good people to help you, but if that means independence from large corporations that are obsessed with profit and willing to exploit, surveil, control, and oppress their own customers to get it, it is absolutely worth the hassle and inconvenience of breaking away from them.
Much good can be done and is being done with free, open, decentralized technologies without sacrificing freedom.
I will do my best to document and my journey away from Big Tech. Complete independence may not be possible (I use Google Fiber because the only other alternatives where I live are Comcast and Centurylink which are much worse), but I will try.
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@Dallin Audio chat about this! I think it's the best way / next logical step to getting your points and achievements across - and even help people better than just text.
On your journey once a week / once a month - whatever - it's possible to chat in browser with a simple link (like Zoom but #Jitsi which is good advertising itself to use)... or just record something to yourself as notes you can show others how bad or good it was
(TLDR- people listen and learn better this way - and it's more human!)
⬇️ MORE IF YOU WANT ON THAT...
ELSE THAT'S ENOUGH AS SHORT VERSION ⬆️
People don't get things as much with text only or without a place online they can go too - let's face it some of it is shit-broken / 0-GUI / pure-code needed sometimes etc BUT having people you can go to the gym with is MUCH better...
Let me know if you can talk - just with me - otherwise yeah good for trying but there's limits so I don't want to say it's not enough - but it's not enough usually to expect people to do it alone and not give up or come across 10 errors and say fck it on one of those attempts or steps. I have sympathy for the busy person not all but many...
Tech has often left this human side out... so let's talk - or well...
