Like the title says I am trying the boycott the US thing hard, so I have gotten rid of a lot of services. After my iPhone and iPad give out I will be looking into alternatives my homepods are going to need to find another forever home sooner or later.
Anywho that brings me to why I am posting here. A few months ago my place decided to flood and damage a lot of things I have just been hoarding! So I will get to start with a much cleaner slate of things, I get to decide what is coming back into my place and what is coming back or being replaced. It just really clicked for me that this was going to help me embrace this lifestyle some more.
I wanted to share it with the community on the book of Faces, but I do not use it anymore and I was not going to go through the effort to download the app sign in and mention it in the group I was in. Only to then decide to uninstall the app and not see any comments or anything. So I thought Lemmy, I already have a Lemmy account that I use why not post it here. I may not get the same dopamine hit but at least I will hopefully get some.
Tl:dr: Best way to clean out crap from your place is have you single floor suite flood, and Facebook is no good.
I am moving to more and more self hosted and open source things. My hardware is moving to things like raspberry pi’s. My next phone will be a pixel, so I can install that open source OS, I will need to figure out what I am going to do about replacing my iPad.
I use a self hosted Nextcloud to store files, contacts, and calendars. I use a self hosted Immich to host my pictures. I own a few domains one that I am using to learn more about self hosting and one that my blog and email is on, both are hosted in Canada using CIRA the Canadian register. With my emails I create a new email address for every service so that I can easily find out who has leaked my data or sold it off to Google or who ever and just shut down the address. I use a pihole setup in my home lab to block ads, trackers, and sites I do not want to visit. I self host searXNG to replace all the search engines that are trying to harvest my data, sure it scraps from the Google and a few other engines (I do not remember what I have turned on) but no one but me sees it. I tried to figure out how to use peertube, but that failed so I use Unwatched on my iOS devices to block most of Google’s tracking while I am on Youtube, and I sail the high seas for other media.
No need to apologize a lot of Big Tech is in the US, and it is harder for people to see the forest through the trees. Open Source Software is huge, people have been saying this is the year for Linux for many years now, but with Microslops royal F ups recently and the world starting to trust the US less and less Linux may be having a surge do not know if it is the year of Linux yet but we are getting there.
The fact that you are on Lemmy rather than Reddit, shows that open source is really going places. Lemmy is run off of the Fediverse an open source standard that hosts things like mastodon and lemmy, I am sure there are more but they are just escaping me right now.