Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoI’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.www.thenation.comexternal-linkmessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1808arrow-down119file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.onlineusa@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmygrad.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1789arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square69linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.onlineusa@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmygrad.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
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-23 months 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-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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.
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I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.