Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoI’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.www.thenation.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1803arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1784arrow-down1external-linkI’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.www.thenation.comTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-text
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoI degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun? Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out. SMS? Backed up Contacts? Backed up Photos? Syncthing’d Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user. Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works. Email? Thunderbird’d’d Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d Google? Gone and not missed.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 days ago Email? Thunderbird’d’d Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.
I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?
Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.
SMS? Backed up
Contacts? Backed up
Photos? Syncthing’d
Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user.
Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works.
Email? Thunderbird’d’d
Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d
Google? Gone and not missed.
Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.
I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.