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I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. (www.thenation.com)
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For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don't forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.