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.)

  • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    • Ditched Reddit for Lemmy

    • Twitter for Mastodon

    • Netflix, Apple+, Prime for Plex

    • Gmail for Protonmail

    • Outlook for Thunderbird

    • partly Degoogled my android Smartphone

    • switched from Vanced to Re-vanced

    • Chrome for Firefox with add-ons

    • Alexa for Home Assistant

    • Partly switched off telemetry on Windows 10

    • Got my first all unlimited contract on my smartphone

    • Upgraded my ADSL to 200 Mbps

    • Used FOSS quite more frequently

    • Used Calibre for the first time

    • Learned a lot about emulators on PC

    Tbh, didn’t realised about all these things until I wrote them down

    edit: formating

    • BoisZoi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Don’t forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won’t save voice recordings.

      • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        That won’t be necessary, because I completely uninstalled it and it’s not connected to the network anymore

    • dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
      2·
      10 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
        2·
        10 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.

    • fluxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Looks like you’re just missing Linux to compete the list. It’s not for everyone yet, though.

      • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Thank you for the suggestion.

        I’m planning on buying an AMD GPU later this year and then, I’m planning on installing Linux on my Desktop since Windows 10 will not be supported.