I figured this may lead to an interesting discussion in the comments.

How has your use of Technology changed in the past year? I’ll start.

  • Due to the rise of streaming services and Sony/discovery removing content from libraries, I downloaded all my iTunes purchases onto a 2TB SSD (which I’ll soon need to get another).

  • Like many, I’ve stopped using Reddit outside of Google search.

  • I’ve reduced my subscriptions to just two. (Apple One and Google One)

  • I’ve purchased DVDs/Blu rays of my favorite uncensored shows (Family Guy and American Dad) and ripped them and watch them through Cloud storage (Google Drive via Infuse for Apple platforms, and Kodi for Windows)(I’ve also purchased MakeMKV just because it is so damn useful)

  • I’ve used Google App Scripts to bypass some Gmail limitations to make filters that I otherwise couldn’t. For instance, in Outlook.com, you can block email addresses and domains before you have ever gotten an email from them. In Gmail, you can’t. The best you can do is create a filter that deletes them. In my case, I’ve created a Google App Script that runs every hour and looks for (@.mil) domain emails and marks them as spam. (I am in college, and I fucking hate that they give my email to recruiters.)

  • dutchkimbleEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Since you’re already good with these, might as well go witb Mull instead of Firefox on android. Also VPN and private DNS could be interesting next steps.

    • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Thanks for the advice.

      Already bought a VPN subscription with PIA and also setup a private DNS with cloud-flare on my android smartphone and tablet. Will look into the PC settings later.

      I LL take a look into Mullvad later as well since I saw it’s a fork of Firefox which makes it a very interesting prospect.

      • dutchkimbleEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Nice! Good luck on your journey. My next step is setting up Nextcloud…

        • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          NextCloud and BitWarden. But that’s a project for later down the road. Local and Foss all the way